Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini

[Shawn Erickson]

On May 25, 2007, at 4:08 AM, Matt Johnston wrote:

> And reintroduce a single PCIe, mini-tower. With on board graphics.  
> And the option for a kick ass graphics card...or any other PCIe  
> card you might decide to put in.

I was originally thinking a dual PCIe mini-tower would be a great  
thing for Apple to do ... but after what you stated above I also now  
feel it would make sense for a single PCIe (16x lane ideally) mini- 
tower with embedded graphics (using desktop class chipset), one drive  
bay, one optical bay, 2 DIMM slots (maybe 4), and single socket dual  
core (possibly quad core on the high-end BTO) could sit nicely along  
side the iMac and with the right pricing won't damage Mac Pro up sell  
(maybe place it in the $1,300-1,600 range).

We would likely purchase many such systems as a second developer and  
test system.

-Shawn