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One word, expandability. The top-end iMac is pretty much maxed out, whereas the low-end MacPro has plenty of room for expansion and performance upgrades. If I was in the market for a new high-end development platform, I'd be all over the low-end MacPro and then upgrade it myself. It's definitely cheaper to get memory and HD's from Newegg than Apple. Although I do have to say the 27" iMac is pretty sweet but I doubt I'd have enough desk space for it.

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I almost wish Apple would sell a bare-bones MacPro so I could pick decent parts without Apple markup and not have to pay for the shitty parts they stick in the entry level model.

No hard drive, no video card, no ram. Just the CPU, mobo, case, and a copy of Snow Leopard (and pretty kb+mouse).

I too wish Apple would disregard the core of its business plan and introduce a niche product that few would buy.

Assuming that it's priced reasonably, I'd definitely buy it. I'm sure a lot of people would. But it's something that Apple's not going to do as it won't work out of the box.

Yep! If you want 32GB of ram, this is the way to go!

Note that the single-quad Mac Pro has only 4 RAM slots and goes up to 16GB, same as the iMac.

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