Year of the Laptop
As a Mac gamer and Mac developer, the under-performance of Apple's current desktop line is a source of continuing frustration. I'm sure Apple is painfully aware of this as well - they're currently crippled by Motorola's rapidly-aging G4 line. They don't have this same problem with their laptops because the portable CPUs in the PowerBooks and iBooks have such excellent power characteristics that they don't need to throttle down CPU performance to anywhere near the extent of their x86 cousins on the PC side of the fence.
So it was with great amusement that I read this quote on MacCentral today: (in referring to PowerBooks and iBooks making up 42 percent of the systems sold last quarter) "We're very proud of that," Joswiak told MacCentral. "We'd like to get to the day where we're selling as many laptop systems as desktops, and we're well on our way to doing that."
You sure are. Just keep cranking out poorly-performing desktop Macs and you'll virtually guarantee it. Talk about marketing spin!