I agree. There’s plenty of market space for a lower dollar, high performance Mac. They drop the price, and I”m there. Currently it makes no sense for me.
There isn't a market for that from Apple. Apple needs to keep the quality and support up, and that costs money. What I meant is that either the top iMac should be quad-core or they should make a larger mini, maybe another Cube, that is the higher-performance consumer desktop. Then ditch the single-processor Mac Pro, it doesn't make much sense and isn't a great value anyway (the dual-processor Mac Pros are a good value even for the performance-only crowd).