Well, it never fails - ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that Apple product cycle updates are always scheduled for the month after you buy one.
PowerBook G4 and iMac updates are rumored to be announced next week, after Apple announced a new set of eMacs today. Power Mac updates are also expected in the next month or two (actually, would have happened sooner, but it didn’t pan out that way).
The eMac update, by the way, is a real barnburner.
The new eMac should be on Apple’s front page. It’s not. It doesn’t even make the graphics on the hardware page, either.
Why?
An all-in-one, user-friendly, Panther-running computer. With an 80GB hard drive and an 8X(!) DVD-R-creating SuperDrive, with no added components necessary to run pretty much anything (well, some RAM would be nice for iLife).
And it retails for $999.
This thing is a steal. They should be advertising this machine up and down, left and right - that it’s a digital hub (the way they want Apple to be thought of) for the home, a full-fledged desktop computer that’s a single unit - and can burn DVDs at insane speeds.
They would sell these things pretty well if they’d put some iPod-like marketing muscle behind them. They’re a great deal.
And a good challenge to the “Macs are too expensive” argument.