> And I know in all seriousness that you don't have a million bucks :-)

That is true but here’s a raised glass to Moore’s Law and my wallet.

> But computing power generally has an inverse proportion to size. In order to become more powerful, they must shrink

Yes and no - heat. The shrinkage only really applies if computer power needs is static. Smartphones are getting larger, not smaller. Even with all the focus on Mac Air and Ultrabook, a few years a back I eBayed my Zeos Pocketbook 386, smaller and lighter than any of these and similar performance to a Mac Air vs. a Desktop in early 1990’s. Ran on AAA batteries all day. Ran DOS3 and WP off Flash memory. Had a modem to boot. Cost about the same as a Macbook Air in adjusted dollars.

Ivy Bridge is a good example. To get more SoC style setup and to keep die size small, turns out it’s hotter and harder to OC than Sandy-Bridge. Shrinkage always has costs.

> That instead of buying one Monster Truck of a computer, you'd be better served by buying a fleet of FIT's.

Architecturally, I agree. But form factor, I think that “fleet of FITs” will be cheaper, faster and cooler in a larger form factor. In otherwords, pros need trucks. You don’t move freight from state to state in a Prius and you don’t move huge amounts of data on a smartphone.

> And I suspect that in the long run, that's Apple's point

I suspect in the long run, Apple’s point is that pros don’t matter. Some may argue that long run was this week.