Give Me A Dual Core Mac Pro
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Eight cores, Apple? Sure, I’m impressed but I have a better idea: two cores. A dual core Mac Pro. Cut us wannabe Mac users a break by creating a usable, practical machine at a lower price point. What!?? Blasphemy, you say?
Most users don’t need four cores, let alone eight. They don’t need 16 gigs of RAM, either. What they want is flexibility and expandability.
What Apple is missing is a true mid-range computer. No, the iMac doesn’t count.
The iMac comes with an extremely unecessary, several-hundred-dollar option: the built-in monitor. Plus, the form factor limits the amount of memory that can be added, the number of hard drives that can be installed and the ability to change video cards.
The ability to upgrade a system at some point in the future is what makes PCs so practical.
The Mac Pro teases us PC tinkerers with gobs of space and the ability to do your own upgrades. You can easily add memory modules or hard drives. You can even swap out video cards.
The problem with the Mac Pro is the $2499 price tag. Take out one $600 woodcrest processor and one memory riser, charge $1899 and I’ll buy one right now.
Sure, you can’t call a crippled Mac Pro a “Mac Pro.” Call it a “Mac Duo.”
Better yet, get over the design fetish and put an 24″ iMac in a Mac Pro case. Remove the screen and $600. Sell it for $1399. Call it a “Mac.”
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