Where’s the Mac?

Don MacAskill wrote an interesting entry a few days ago titled Where’s the Mac? to quote from his blog:

So I found it interesting that at Apple’s big Mac event yesterday, Apple blew it with the Mac again. Steve fielded some questions about Mac adoption in the workplace, and another about price. But he skirts completely around the issue at hand: Apple has a huge, gaping hole in their desktop lineup. They have an iMac, a Mac mini, and a Mac Pro. But where’s the Mac?

At SmugMug, we’d put a Mac on every employee’s desk tomorrow. So what exactly is a Mac? That’s easy – it’s a Mac Pro with one dual-core Desktop class Intel CPU in it. Two (or four!) Server class dual-core CPUs (Xeons) are overkill both for performance and for budgets. I know – we’ve got some at our office, and I’m writing this on my Mac Pro at home.

I couldn’t agree with Don more but he does miss one important point… where’s the MacBook Pro for the road warrior. One of the largest hurdles for me to get over (and ultimately resulted with purchasing a MacBook instead) is the lack of a lightweight small form factor MacBook Pro to replace my IBM X60 with. I might be going out on a limb here but I’m certain that there are a ton of people like me out there that are getting on and off of airplanes that don’t care about a 15″ or 17″ monitor and just want the lightest box with the longest battery available. This segways into my next gripe… when are we going to get a docking station? I’d even settle for a port replicator if it was available.