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Anonymous was pretty funny thinking that I meant great photographic artists with my reference to equipment enamoured "shutterbugs." I think though that anyone of a sufficient age who remembers that era knows who I mean, and exactly what boring or soft-core porn photos the repressed smucks produced. Now could anyone with such poor reading skills and lack of cultural range create a good video, even on a rilly rilly rilly fast machine he built himself? But back to the Mac Mini:
"2) Not nearly as easy to setup or as feature-laden as an iMac, since you have to attach a monitor and other devices by hand
It's small, but that isn't a huge advantage for most users, and its overall footprint is probably larger than that of the iMac, what with the separate monitor and all the cables and such you have to run out of it"
iMac set up. Plug keyboard into USB port. Plug Mouse into keyboard.
Mac Mini setup: Plug keyboard into USB port. Plug Mouse into keyboard. Plug monitor into Mini.
Maybe that's not nearly as easy, but it's not exactly hard to plug a monitor in. And "all the cables" wow--it's just a forest there. What the mini replaces, typically, is a big beige PC box---so the size savings are substantial, and the cableage the same. Anemic depends on what you want to use it for. Most users don't game and don't make movies. The point is well made though that Apple may be making a mistake by trading off profit per unit for market share -- but this year's bottom line affects all thinking when you're traded on Wall Street.
