With the engineering brilliance demonstrated in the iMac G5, Apple could build an extremely small machine and price it in the $500-$700 range. I would call this machine the Xmac, which fits perfectly in the naming scheme with Xserve, Xserver RAID, Xsan, and Xgrid. A lot of people already have LCDs or monitors that work perfectly fine (ugly as they might be). I believe Apple is leaving a lot of money on the table by not having a stand-alone consumer/busines computer without LCD. He loved the look and styling of the iMac, but price is a sticking point. That said, a friend is in the market for a new computer, and I mentioned the new iMac. There is no premium price in the iMac compared to PC box builders all-in-one machines, look at the Gateway Profile Apple pricing the iMac extremely competively. I have seen this proposal time and again, here is the latest at The Mac Night Owlįirst off, I love the new iMac and intend to get one as soon as all my old PC components are sold on eBay. I am not the only one, I am starting to get questions from users on this too. Quick recap: I patched everything up, and the GDI+ Detection Tool still tells me I am vulnerable, but I am left with no instructions on how to fix it. I have nothing left to do because I am on Windows XP. Office Update tells me I have no patches to install, so I go back to the GDI+ Security Update page and I read it again. Step 1 on the page above is to run Office Update How to Update Your Computer with the JPEG Processing (GDI+) Security Update When you click on the "Yes" button, the user expects they will see what they have to do to cleanup the latest security mess. I just ran this tool and told my system is vulnerable, here is a UI fragment: On, there is an open letter to Microsoft about how poor an implementation the GDI+ detection tool his. Windows XP SP2 fixes the hole in Windows, but it seems like the afflicted DLL, gdiplus.dll, is everywhere. MS04-028 is perhaps one of the worst security vulnerabilites discovered in the recent past. I am not saying Apple is doomed if they don't get into the low-end market with a more PC-like headless machine, but I don't see them achieveing significant share gains without it. A large percentage of growth in the PC market is coming from the low-end, and though a $1299 iMac is close, sub-$1000 is the magic number. Apple needs to maintain existing app develeopers and expand the pool. If Apple can get their share above 5%, the positive feedback loop of share driving software development decision efforts will guarantee the continued existance of the Mac platform. ![]() Growing share diffuses one of the main criticisms from PC partisans, and it's also a defensive strategy as Linux desktop share grows. The point of a low cost Mac is not to maintain profit margins, those will have to be sacrified somewhat, but to grow market share at the expense of profits. I expand on that a bit in the comment, reproduced here, that I posted on AppleMatters in response to how unlikely they view the "headless" Mac:īut I disagree with your conclusions. I recently posted why I Apple needs a sub-$1000 Mac. Chris Seibold on AppleMatters recently wrote why we won't see a "headless" Mac.
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