[Joeri]

I don’t think the imac is that much of a step up from the mini performance-wise. Only the i9 in the imac significantly beats the top i7 in the mini, and the cooling of the imac can’t handle the i9, so the set of cases where people need more power than the mini but are satisfied by the imac should be quite small. The imac has a dedicated gpu, but it is outdated and has to drive that massive 5k display so that’s a wash as well. And the imac has the same lack of extensibility as the mini so it doesn’t win out there either. I basically see imac as a mini with a screen. I know the specs don’t quite match up, but they’re close enough. Realistically if top performance matters you want one of the pro macs anyway.

I’d like apple to make the xMac (cheap expandable tower) but I wouldn’t buy it myself. I suspect not many people would.