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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22974998\/apple-xmac-myth-midrange-mid-tower-mac-studio<\/a>
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Apple\u2019s announcement of the Mac Studio on Tuesday may have fulfilled a dream<\/a> that some Mac users have been clinging to for a couple of decades. Finally, there\u2019s a modular desktop Mac that\u2019s more powerful than the Mac mini without carrying the Mac Pro\u2019s high price tag.<\/p>\n

Back in the \u201890s and early 2000s, being a Mac nerd meant using a Power Mac. The arrival of the original iMac in 1998 was greeted with enthusiasm by Mac nerds because it meant that Steve Jobs might be able to restore Apple to greatness after it foundered in the mid-\u201990s\u2014but none of them would ever stoop to using one themselves.<\/p>\n

When Jobs returned to Apple, he presided over a dramatic and necessary simplification of the product line. The desktop Power Mac, a go-to model for power users, vanished in 1998<\/a>. The choices dwindled to the underpowered iMac (and later, the Mac mini) on one end, and the increasingly expensive Power Mac\/Mac Pro tower on the other.<\/p>\n

In between, at least for Mac power users, was a desert. And rising out of the desert was a glorious mirage: a mythical mid-range Mac minitower like the Power Macs of old. This legendary creature was known as the xMac.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to pinpoint exactly when and where grumblings about Apple\u2019s lack of a mid-range Mac desktop started, but they\u2019re at least 20 years old. A 2005 Ars Technica<\/em> post by John Siracusa<\/a> suggests it was coined in that site\u2019s Mac forums in 2001 or earlier. <\/p>\n

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