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You know Honda, right?  Small, well-built and (at one time) inexpensive cars? 
Well, they're soon to introduce a $60,000, mid-engine, ultra-fast, super-hitech
sports coupe.

What does this have to do with the Mac?  Well, Jean Louis Gassee, head of Apple
Product Development, has likened the Mac and its product image/position to that
of Honda.  And it's time that Apple released a mid-engined Mac: y'know, with
all the frills: DMA on all peripherals, co-processors for graphics, DSP, MIPS
galore, floating point measured in MFLOPS, etc.  

I've heard that Apple has in fact had this kind of stuff in R&D for awhile,
stuff that would make Next, etc. look pretty weenie.  But they don't release
it: market position, profit considerations, etc.  

So to Mr. Gassee and all the marketers: on this model,  don't worry about
price, don't worry about profit: the Mac needs a flagship machine, something
people can drool over (like they're been doing over the Next).  On this one
machine: put more money in hardware, price it at >$10,000 if you need to, and
make a real screamer.  

I know Apple will make most of its money from normally priced models; Honda
does too.  But it never hurts to have one awesome model in the lineup, if just
to show what the company can do. Hey, just musing...it would be nice.  (If
anyone at Apple wants to pass this one to marketing, feel free  :->).



Robert