Well, not quite. It's certainly a drool-worthy machine, but what I meant was a headless box like the Mini and the Pro, but bigger and more expandable than the Mini but not quite as workstation/serverish as the Pro, and more importantly, PRICED midway as well.
A fully decked-out Mini is around $900ish, while the custom configured "low-end" Mac Pro is around $2000. So that's a machine priced around $1400-1500 that has a single 16X PCI-E slot filled with a decent gaming card, uses the Conroe Core 2 Duo CPU, DDR2-667 memory, and a desktop size Superdrive and hard disk.
You know, the machine every Mac gamer wants.
I like the 24", I like that the CPU is socketed, I like that it has a 3.5" drive, and I like that you can order the 7600GT with it. What I don't like is the price, all the iMacs should drop by about $300 - $400. And it uses an MXM module, which aren't common place. So who knows if there's ever going to be an aftermarket upgrade?
This Titan thing certainly sounds promising. But it is a hack, and if Apple wanted us to be able to use standard aftermarket parts, they wouldn't have put the blocks in place. Which means, if Steve decides he doesn't like Titan and it's like, he can wave his magic wand and suddenly with the next update, POOF, it doesn't work anymore. (The hackers will find away around that, and then you have a little arms race.)
