AppleInsider is reporting today that the death of Apple's Mac Mini computer is imminent. If true, here's what I take from this:1) Apple could be going along with what I've been saying and is going to make an 'Apple TV 2.0' or 'Apple TV Pro' that is more of a Apple TV/Mac Mini-hybrid. With just a few more easy-to-add features on the Apple TV, there really is no need for both this and the Mac Mini.
It's always seemed logical to me to blend them together as many people are already using the Mini as a living room media hub anyways (and one that I think is much better then the current Apple TV).
2) Apple's new iMac could very well be like what AppleGazette is predicting - basically a giant screen that could be docked on a desk but then picked up and used in the living room (complete with touchscreen) as a kind of big Tablet/UMPC computer.
This wouldn't be meant to be a notebook replacement, but rather a portable solution for your home. One that would further render the MacMini as it currently stands, obsolete.
Quite a few reports have said a major iMac redesign is coming and a portable touchscreen one that is capable of being docked on your desk would, in my eyes, be just about the perfect home computer.
WWDC fever is already starting to mount...
[photo by flickr user Roberto Garcia]
5 comments:
I like the idea of a tablet form factor Mac, because it fits well with many parts of Apple's customer base.
Relatively recently however, Steve Jobs had a meeting with a major medical client and put that idea to rest (was an article from The Guardian, which I think I might have 'blogged about, not sure.)
But then there's the Apple Universal Remote to consider.
So who knows, eh?
Don't think they should kill off the IMac I believe that there is a decent target market there if they did it right.
I meant to say mini, mind was somewhere else apparently.
@wayne - yeah i like the idea of a tablet as well and don't discount it just cause Steve J has put an idea to rest - think he might have done that with the phone as well.
like any good company, apple will revisit and revise stances if the consumers demand it.
@hemphill - i figured as such unless you had a hot tip no one else did!
From recollection, the reasoning for not wanting to produce a Mac Tablet was because of the relative lack of power such a device would have.
Where my recollection fails me is whether this dialogue took place before or after the transition to Intel...
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