The myth of xMac, the midrange Mac tower that never was, by jsnell:
Funneled toward iMac or Power, users wanted more
The introduction of the Mac mini in 2005 provided a clearer focus for the frustration. In his post, Siracusa rejected the Mac mini as too limited to be a proper alternative to an expensive Power Mac, and expressed his desire for an affordable modular Mac with configurable specs: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the xMac. My xMac. The Mac that I want to buy. Reduced to one sentence, it’s a[...] but I’d be happy with a compromise: aheadless Mac that trades expandability for reduced size and cost. Call it the, make it cheaper and faster than at least one Power Mac model, and give the “deluxe” version the fastest available single CPU. That’d still cannibalize some Power Mac sales, but it’d also present an opportunity to up-sell iMac and Mac mini customers.
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