[rwfromkansas]

Still no price drop. You have to get a pro to get a machine with any kind of decent power. the little macbooks can’t play games.

[rwfromkansas]

And still no Bluray.

That Dell XPS studio with windows 7 is looking better and better with Apple upgrading its equipment at a snail’s pace.

[Uri’el-2012]

Still no price drop. You have to get a pro to get a machine with any kind of decent power. the little macbooks can’t play games.

For the same price you can get a server.

Mac mini w/ OS X Server software plus a terabyte of DASD

[the long march]

Bit they are more than enough for oh so many things. Gaming is not the only thing that computers are useful for -——in fact I prefer a stand a lone system for gaming still allows for better graphics, faster response,etc etc all the things that have always been true

[Terpfen]

Still no price drop.

Not entirely true. Some products did receive a price cut. Besides, Apple already cut prices on everything earlier this year. Their general strategy is to maintain price points but upgrade the products.

[antiRepublicrat]

Still no price drop.

Apple usually keeps the same price point and increases the specs.

You have to get a pro to get a machine with any kind of decent power.

The big iMac has a 2.8 GHz (boost to 3.4 Ghz) quad-core Core i7 with 1066 DDR3, which is in the upper ranges of what's available these days, more than what most people need, and faster than other all-in-one systems. They can't go to the very highest specs due to the cooling constraints of an all-in-one.

the little macbooks can’t play games.

Good, they're not designed for it. Still, the 9400M it has will run the average game decently on its small screen. If you want to play Crysis then get the gamer system it was designed for.