Missing Apple product

[Guest]

Is it me or is Apple missing a product between the iMac and the MacPro. I want a tower mac with a i5-i7 and room for more hard drives, and to upgrade the gfx card. A MacPro is too much money, and the iMac has no upgrade at all. Well the RAM can be on some models. Would you buy that model?

Richard

[Techno_Funky]

There is this. http://www.apple.com/in/mac-mini/specs.html

[Brian M. Veteran]

I have an old (2011) iMac and it's as upgradable as I needed it to be (it started life with a 2.7Ghz i7, 4GB RAM and a 1TB HDD - it now has a 3.4GHz i7, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD and 2 Samsung 840 Pros in Raid 0). Not much more I could do to it tbh.

The Mac Pro has always been the upgradable Mac, and it's due for an update this year (expect Xeons again, no Core i7s I'd guess). I very much doubt they'll drop the price though.

[Guest]

The mac mini is alright, but its not as easy a mac pro. I want something i can shove a load of drives into. I might be buying the new mac pro.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

I've been wanting the exact same system for years but Apple seem completely unwilling to produce it. I imagined it as a Mac Pro Jr, or has often been mentioned on the net as the 'xMac'.

Headless (i.e. Bring Your Own Display Keyboard & Mouse), 1 CPU, and options to expand RAM / disk and GPU.

I'd buy one in a heartbeat even if it was priced in the usual, extreme Apple way. We can only assume they expand the new Mac Pro downwards to fill this niche as well as making it scalable enough to impress the pro users.