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Mac Pro Build-to-Order Upgrade Pricing Revealed
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Really, if you have looked at MacPros in the past, the starting price has almost always been $2500+ and these prices for the upgrades are in line with what they've done in the past.
No surprises here at all really.
Apple is really pushing developers to offload processor intensive tasks to the graphics cards with this machine. Are you 100% sure that the software you need 12 cores for will not make that jump during the life of this computer?
I haven't seen any mention of that upgrade cost, either. In my case I'd like to downgrade to D300s from the 6 core model so am also curious about that.
So much this.
The really funny part is that a loaded 27" iMac or RMBP is only about $300 less than the base model of the nMP, but the prices are somehow a shock.
These aren't base model Macbooks.
ya, people have no idea about the component prices. You can't even buy two FirePro W9000 cards (same as D700) for less than $8000 so Apple is throwing in the Mac Pro for free.
http://www.amazon.com/AMD-FirePro-R...?ie=UTF8&qid=1387236595&sr=8-1&keywords=w9000
http://www.amazon.com/AMD-FirePro-R...?ie=UTF8&qid=1387236595&sr=8-1&keywords=w9000
And this. For fun I spec'd out a fully-loaded 27" iMac and even with my discount it came to just under $3800, only $200 less than the 6 core base rMP and $800 more than the quad core version. These prices are not out of line at all.
yup. They are little different but essentially they are the same type of card it seems.
Ready for the screams "Who the hell needs an 8 Grand worth of video Card"
They don't match up perfectly. They're also close to 7970s, which did have a 6GB version. It wasn't cheap, but it wasn't thousands of dollars. As I mentioned it may be more of an issue of branding than anything here. If they were going to charge W9000 pricing, it would be called a W9000.
I think its about $500.
The Quad to the Hex base model is $1000.. subtract the cost of the 4gb of ram and the processor upgrade you get between $500-600.
The BTO upgrade prices aren't surprising, but the base price is almost a $1000 more than I remember my 2008 Mac Pro being. Perhaps this is related to American manufacturing versus Chinese, or costs associated with the new design, but it does seem to be more expensive.
Mac Pro is not coming the 17th December
As Australia is all ready into the 17th December, Apple's website http://store.apple.com/au/buy-mac/mac-pro it has not been updated, to sell the Mac Pro. So I doubt it will be coming tomorrow.
As Australia is all ready into the 17th December, Apple's website http://store.apple.com/au/buy-mac/mac-pro it has not been updated, to sell the Mac Pro. So I doubt it will be coming tomorrow.
Lucky for me, I've devolved from shooting my P2 camera to GoPro.
Also lucky that my current MacPro (2009 vintage) serves just fine... for now.
How much would I (have to) spend on Thunderbolt drives to replace the 16TB internal I have now? lol
Another $2000 to OWC!
Also lucky that my current MacPro (2009 vintage) serves just fine... for now.
How much would I (have to) spend on Thunderbolt drives to replace the 16TB internal I have now? lol
Another $2000 to OWC!
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I'm glad more specifics are emerging. Now if they'd only make the darn computers available! It really is looking like they won't ship until January at the earliest.
I'm fairly happy with the $300 upgrade to 512 gb of storage. I can't understand, though, how Apple can think it's remotely acceptable for a "pro" computer to have 256 gb of storage as stock. That's pretty much unusable. I can only assume assume Apple expects you to store the bulk of your data on external drives and use the system drive solely for the OS and apps.
I'm fairly happy with the $300 upgrade to 512 gb of storage. I can't understand, though, how Apple can think it's remotely acceptable for a "pro" computer to have 256 gb of storage as stock. That's pretty much unusable. I can only assume assume Apple expects you to store the bulk of your data on external drives and use the system drive solely for the OS and apps.
These prices are very reasonable. My Dell workstation (T7610) cost my office $12,216 before tax, and with a HEAVY corporate discount.
$9,999 for a fully loaded MP is a steal. *sigh* I wish my company used Macs. I'd have one of those sitting on my desk instead of something the size of a house.
$9,999 for a fully loaded MP is a steal. *sigh* I wish my company used Macs. I'd have one of those sitting on my desk instead of something the size of a house.
I'm thinking a 256 GB flash drive is enough for apps. I'll need an external drive for storage anyway (Pegasus J4) sowhat's the point of going bigger? 32 GB of ram sounds like a nice number though. I remember programming an IBM 360 that had 32 K of ram . They called it "core memory" That makes OLD lol
. They called it "core memory" That makes OLD lolConsidering the whole point of the AMD choice is to kill CUDA the way iOS killed Flash, no.
Hmm pretty useless pricing for me as I'm in the UK. But I gotta say the graphics upgrade price is a steal! Makes more sense to buy that and then update the SSD later.
Edit: ah no, I see this entire report has been made up by the Mac Rumors staff and is nothing more then 'educated guess work' at best. So I'll ignore the pricing quoted on here.
Edit: ah no, I see this entire report has been made up by the Mac Rumors staff and is nothing more then 'educated guess work' at best. So I'll ignore the pricing quoted on here.
Talked to my sales guy at the Apple store who did some digging. Here's the prices he gave me:
Just got some info from my local Business apple connection on the new Mac Pro:
The 6-core, 16GB, 1TB, D500 machine is $4559.
The 256SSD, 6-core, D700, 16GB RAM would be $4369 (+tax).
The 512SSD, 6-core, D700, 16GB RAM would be $4654 (+tax).
There is also a 8 core (+$1425) or 12 core (+$2850) available.
I think the 512 D700 is the sweet spot for me. Putting my money on things that can't be upgraded. Maybe even do 256 instead of 512 and then upgrade when a 2tb flash drive is available in a bit. Minimum ram for now.
Cheers! Race to see who gets theirs first.
Just got some info from my local Business apple connection on the new Mac Pro:
The 6-core, 16GB, 1TB, D500 machine is $4559.
The 256SSD, 6-core, D700, 16GB RAM would be $4369 (+tax).
The 512SSD, 6-core, D700, 16GB RAM would be $4654 (+tax).
There is also a 8 core (+$1425) or 12 core (+$2850) available.
I think the 512 D700 is the sweet spot for me. Putting my money on things that can't be upgraded. Maybe even do 256 instead of 512 and then upgrade when a 2tb flash drive is available in a bit. Minimum ram for now.
Cheers! Race to see who gets theirs first.