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Amen, brother. What I’d like to see is a minitower design with—and this is just one possible configuration that would fulfill my wish—a reasonably powerful processor (perhaps a higher-end Core 2 Duo or a single Xeon); a good graphics card in an upgradeable slot; a decent amount of RAM and hard-drive space; a single free PCI Express slot; and room for one additional hard drive. The ability to swap out the optical drive would be a nice touch. I think such a machine would be a nearly-perfect middle ground between the Mac mini and Mac Pro; my code name for it is Mythical Midrange Mac Minitower —MMMM for short. (Feel free to call it the Mac medium , instead.) And in my ongoing daydream, the MMMM would sell for a relatively reasonable $1,499 to $1,599.
It’s almost a year later, and we’re still waiting… In the meantime, I’ve been attaching mirrored drives (the Guardian Maximus) to a Mac Mini.