Not really. Mac Minis keep their price very well, even when new models appear. Even PPC Minis still sell for reasonably high amounts.

The Mac Mini is a lovely machine, but is spectacularly poor value. I love my PPC Mini, which was a retirement present. I'd never have been able to justify that expense out of my own pocket.

When I bought my Macbook pro it was the previous generation and so I saved about £399. That was three years ago and it's still going strong.

echo the above my MBA was reduce by almost 600 squid when the new model came out. I wouldn't have one otherwise

"spectacularly poor value"

Very very true of the Mac Mini but, unfortunately, also of other product offerings.

Here they come!

It's OK; anyone who feels that their year-old computers are now obsolete will soon be apple (oops, genuine Freudian slip) able to satisfy that spending urge.

I like the idea of a Sandy Bridge MacBook Air

There's a link there to the newer iMacs, including the comment:

If you�re still with me, let me confirm the worst: Apple�s iMac range continues to be the most preposterously expensive series of home computers known to man. Towards the top-end, the 3.1GHz quad-core i5 edition with 27in display is one of the most pernicious offenders, setting you back in excess of £1,600 for the shallow glam of brushed aluminium, unnecessary space-age design and the kind of performance that�s wasted on its target domestic buyer. In other words, it�s god-damned gorgeous.

Sums it up beautifully

I wonder if Thunderbolt will be the next big thing like... err... firewire was - before they killed it

Only if they make it cheap enough.

The big problem with any new universal bus it is will be up against USB3 which is the usual half baked cheapo PC bus standard.

In PC land they don't seem to give a toss about DMA and CPU usage. Have they not learned from the days of PIO and UDMA hard discs?

You may think a few CPU cycles is okay to lose, but when you want reliable low latency audio and realtime processing it really does cause problems.

Edited by deleted (Mon 20-Jun-11 17:58:46)

I wonder if Thunderbolt will be the next big thing

$49 for the cable to connect a peripheral to the computer - and you can only buy it from Apple. What do you think?

Have you even checked your information?

It's not simply a cable, so try not to be such a richard.