[fryke]

I just thought that EDCC defined the home user according to Apple's products. But the error in this thinking is a large portion why most home users do _not_ currently buy Macs.
I also didn't say this would change with a simple (*cough*) processor change.

Let's say Apple _wants_ to increase their market share. I think we can agree on that. Let's not talk about gamers, primarily, let's talk about home users in general instead. Once Apple is on common ground in that a home user can directly compare the features (finally their MHz and RAM fixation can make some sense again...), Apple has to maybe rethink their product strategy. They have a lot of "pros" they can play out, but expandability in consumer machines certainly isn't one of them.

We all know Steve Jobs is no friend of internal expandability, anyway. And surely, they'd rather sell you a new machine, anyway - perfectly understandable. But if for that reason people move or stay away from Apple...?

I think for a really "cheap" machine like the Mac mini, it's more than acceptable that you can't really expand them (internally). But the iMac is _no_ cheap computer. Its display stays new a lot longer than its processor.