Re:Macintosh needs to go back to the future. (Score 1)

A good example of this is the emac, which is a great computer but is overkill for the tasks of checking email and cruising the 'net, and too inflexible to do things like operate with external music devices (ie MOTU).

What are you talking about? With USB and FireWire most of MOTU's "external music devices" work just fine. I use a MOTU 828mkII with my PowerBook, and it works great with an eMac. Same with their USB MIDI interfaces.

The only things that don't work are the PCI-424 based interfaces and there's really not much reason to use those over the FireWire versions. If you're one of the few people who does really need a PCI interface you should be using a PowerMac anyway.