If true, it's a shame. The new Mini, with its alleged MacBook-like video guts, should be able to drive a 30" monitor, and the new MacPro tower should be able to drive several of them. It would make an awful lot of sense for Apple to release a new 30" monitor much like their recent 24" model.

The new MacPro tower, again based on questionable rumor blogs, looks like it's going to follow the current recipe of using high-end Xeon-class parts. Once again, Apple passes up the "standard PC" hardware class, which is precisely what I need at home (i.e., one Core i7 processor with 8GB of RAM and internal 4 or 5-disk RAID should be about right for my anticipated needs; you could build that with beige-box PCs for half of what you'd spend to do it with a MacPro because the beige boxes can't do multiple processor sockets).

(And would it kill Apple to do a 30" iMac? If they made one, it could become our standard desktop machine at work.)