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Hadley

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thats how much it costs if you buy a mac pro completely upgraded to the best of its capabilities, with all the addons including the 30 inch and 23 inch display keyboard mouse bla bla etc.

do you think anyone has ever gone on to apple.com and just dropped that much money on their new setup? id love to have that kind of money to be able to drop 18 grand on a computer, let alone a car or college or anything i need in life.
 
$98,212.00

...That's the price of a maxed out Xserve & Xserve RAID configuration including Mac OS X Server Maintenance Program, AppleCare Service Parts Kits for Xserve, Mac OS X Server Alliance Software Support, and AppleCare Premium Service and Support Plan.

And you can get it in just 7 to 10 business days! :D
 
Oh, that is just chump change. :rolleyes: :p

I don't know anyone that would need that much power. But, want -- now that's a different story.
 
ColdFlame87 said:
who hasnt gone to apple.com and maxed out the mac pro/xserves dreaming they could click that checkout now button and have it home in few days :D
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I used to do that all the time about 10 years ago.

Back then a fully maxed 7500/100 (100MHz 601, I think) with 8 64MB RAM sticks (512MB in total) plus the cache RAM and 4MB VRAM with a 2 GB HD would have cost around £15,000.


Now I don't do it as it only depresses me.
 
Hadley said:
thats how much it costs if you buy a mac pro completely upgraded to the best of its capabilities, with all the addons including the 30 inch and 23 inch display keyboard mouse bla bla etc.
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Why didn't you get two 30" displays instead of a 30" and 23". Maybe we should start a charity in your honour, you poor poor soul. ;)
 
Hadley said:
do you think anyone has ever gone on to apple.com and just dropped that much money on their new setup? id love to have that kind of money to be able to drop 18 grand on a computer, let alone a car or college or anything i need in life.
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People who make money from their computers spend that kind of money. Before Final Cut Pro, it cost over $100,000 to do video editing. Many of the professional app.s Apple sells for less than $1000 used to cost in the tens of thousands. There are many people who gladly give Apple $18,000 and say thank you.

BTW you will have this kind of money one day but your expenses will rise too. Best wishes.
 
I haven't done it at Apple.com yet, but I did just recently spend almost that amount at BHPhotoVideo.com for photography equipment for my business (cameras, lenses, lights, etc). Mac Pro coming in February, but I doubt I'll buy an $18,000 one :).
 
Hadley said:
do you think anyone has ever gone on to apple.com and just dropped that much money on their new setup? id love to have that kind of money to be able to drop 18 grand on a computer, let alone a car or college or anything i need in life.
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I think a couple of video edit houses have done that sort of thing when expanding or replacing old equipment. A fully equipped powermac pro is cheap compared to an Avid setup.

When you rent a desk at £500 per hour, you provide the best, and it's the kind of thing I can see edit houses doing.

Fully equipped Xserves, possibly too. some of these places have insane RAID storage and setups.
 
emptyCup said:
People who make money from their computers spend that kind of money. Before Final Cut Pro, it cost over $100,000 to do video editing.
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Funny... I know a lot of people who were using other apps (Adobe Premiere?) to do video editing before Final Cut Pro, for far less than $100,000. :rolleyes:
 
atari1356 said:
Funny... I know a lot of people who were using other apps (Adobe Premiere?) to do video editing before Final Cut Pro, for far less than $100,000. :rolleyes:
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But Pro editing? In Premiere 5???

Premiere Pro, maybe, but I remember what this app used to be like...on both PC AND Mac.

Horrible. Just Horrible!
 
bartelby said:
I used to do that all the time about 10 years ago.

Back then a fully maxed 7500/100 (100MHz 601, I think) with 8 64MB RAM sticks (512MB in total) plus the cache RAM and 4MB VRAM with a 2 GB HD would have cost around £15,000.
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dmw007 said:
But just imagine having 16GB of RAM in your Mac! :eek: :D
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In 10 years time, we'll regard 16GB as barely enough to open Textedit.

A maxed out mac from the apple store will have about 12TB RAM and still cost about £20k.

What will fill that 12TB of RAM? Dunno.

Today 1GB is barely enough to run OSX smoothly, and to be honest, it still runs pretty much the same MS Office & MS Word apps as it did 10 years ago and edits text in exactly the same way as a computer with 128MB RAM and Office 95 did.

Triva- MS Office first came out for the mac (before Windows!) in 1989, with Word, Excel and Powerpoint. What's changed in 18 years? Bloody f*** all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Office
 
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