I'm back, and I'm mad as hell...

ok ok... I'm not really that mad.

But yet again, Steve Jobs has opened his mouth in front of a group of people and didn't say:

"Here's what you've all been asking for: The Mac MiniTower!"

I am not the only person on the planet who has been screaming for the past 5 years that we need a headless Mac to fill the canyonesc gap between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro.

Yes, Apple, we, the consuming public, are foaming at the mouths in anguish while we wait for you to catch a gorram clue. Why do you think that silly Psystar company is making PCs that run Mac OS? They're filling a need that you refuse to acknowledge.

How difficult is it to scale down the Mac Pro? Seriously. How tough is it to make a scaled back motherboard? And how outrageously difficult could it be to make a smaller case? Let's just half the Mac Pro and call it a day:
- Instead of two sockets that hold 4 RAM sticks, how about just one? Or, two that hold two sticks?
- Instead of two quad-core processors, we're fine with one.
- Instead of 4 hard disk drive bays, two will be great.
- Instead of two optical drive bays, one is sufficient.
- And instead of endless PCIe slots, we'll take two or three.

I know I'd be ECSTATIC if Apple offered something slightly larger than a Shuttle that offered a 3.0GHz Quad Core Intel, geForce 8800, two 500GB HDDs, one DL SuperDrive, and up to 16MB RAM. Hell, I'll even pay the Apple premium for it! A comparable PC would me around $1000. I'd pay $1,500 or even $1,700 for a machine like that, made by Apple, running MAC OSX.

But instead of something ground breaking like that... Steve Jobs comes out and says, "Lookee, you saps! ANOTHER new iPod! No no... it doesn't look at ALL like the old iPod Mini with a larger screen! No! It's NEW. You must buy it!"

I have two words for Steve Jobs:

Fuck.
You.