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Fighting sarcasm with more sarcasm over the internet rarely succeeds
It suppose to cancel each other out...lol
Two observations.
Interesting post, confirms Apple, unfortunately, gouges people who purchase anything except a stripped-down rig. You can save thousands doing the upgrades in the aftermarket.
Second, I bet a decent number of businesses pay it. Technology/equipment costs generally are a very small part of a business' operating budget. For example, outfitting an entire office with Mac Pros and top-of-the-line monitors would be a minimal hardware cost when compared with the big expenses that matter at any business: employee salaries, health care, and retirement benefits, and implementing new systems. Tech for most businesses is a rounding error compared with employee compensation and benefits for even a small shop, which can get to half a million a year very quickly.
Interesting post, confirms Apple, unfortunately, gouges people who purchase anything except a stripped-down rig. You can save thousands doing the upgrades in the aftermarket.
Second, I bet a decent number of businesses pay it. Technology/equipment costs generally are a very small part of a business' operating budget. For example, outfitting an entire office with Mac Pros and top-of-the-line monitors would be a minimal hardware cost when compared with the big expenses that matter at any business: employee salaries, health care, and retirement benefits, and implementing new systems. Tech for most businesses is a rounding error compared with employee compensation and benefits for even a small shop, which can get to half a million a year very quickly.
Thats nothing, on the Australian Apple store, that setup is about 32,000
I also priced up an Xserve for funzies, got up to 54,000 hahaha
I also priced up an Xserve for funzies, got up to 54,000 hahaha
It's cause they're so doped out on eucalyptus that they figure they can sell anything to them.
19K may sound a lot in the real world but in-terms of business costs it's pittance, our last round of business directory listings including yellow pages, thomson local, a few local papers plus a short three month 127 spots per month 30 second spin with a radio station came to £27,000. The bosses car leases is about £1,700 per month but unsurprisingly the git is as tight as a diamond smuggles butt hole when it comes to signing £8k for a new MP.
Bad business decision. As I previously wrote, paying for tech/gadgets is inexpensive, yet lead to huge gains, less downtime, etc. Spending $5k on a Mac Pro, or several of them, is nothing compared to employee salaries, plus medical, benefits, etc. Employees and property leases are the monster costs in any business. Computers are a rounding error in the cost structure.
If you've got that kind of money to land on a computer a few hundred dollars/pounds is neither here nor there.
I bought 6Gb of Apple Memory because I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of selling the old kit and having to faff about if the ram died. Instead I bought everything apart from HDs from Apple so when it goes tits up the 3 year warranty sorts it out for me.
For some people less bother is more important than cheaper.
If I was landing $19k on a Mac Pro I wouldn't be someone who cares about saving a few bob on 3rd party ram!!!
Clearly people pay the prices so fair play to Apple on that front, they are a business after all. Don't like it? Don't buy it, or buy 3rd party memory, or whatever. No point in arguing the toss on an internet forum because there is no point!
I definitely get the appeal of just buying Apple RAM and would probably have done the same as you for 6GB but in this case you can get 50% extra RAM (more than what Apple even offers as a maximum) for less money. In that case it'd be a no brainer. If your usage habits allows you to utilise 32GB of RAM then you could probably use 48GB of RAM. Hell, buying third party with this kind of budget you could probably stretch to 64GB of RAM. When in Rome, after all.
And yet another example of overpricing proven by apple!
8 x 2 GB RAM is cheaper than the same RAM from Crucial.
4 GB chips are expensive. Try finding them cheaper than Apple sells them.
Crucial also sells SSDs: $699 for 256 GB. Completely in line with Apple's $1400 for 512 GB. Try find it cheaper.
So what this proves is not any "overpricing" by Apple, but laziness by MacRumors posters who can't even do two minutes of research before they post.
Totally agree. The boss is an idiot. And this is the same guy who had the reception area re-fitted out in an all glass setup, with the two girls sitting behind glass desks, on a glass walk way raised over a glass fish pond. Only to realise way toooooo late that as anyone walked through the main door they'd be looking directly up the girls skirts. The concept looked amazing but the practicality was not exactly thought through. Nor the fact of how cold it will get and feel in winter.
I am too, however I believe its someones attempt to stir up drama by pointing out how expensive the highest end machine is. Never understood the need for this, if you want drama go watch TNT.
Many people would like this, others such as I are offended by this stupidity
Maingear system $32,434.98
1.5KW PSU
2x5970 (CrossFire)
4xPCI-E x8 (with one a x16 mechanical)
2 USB 3.0 slots
two Xeon X5680 @3.33GHz
Liquid Cooling
twelve 8GB RAM modules (ECC)
six 512GB Corsair SSDs
LSI MegaRAID (512MB)
two 10X LG SuperMulti Blu-ray/DVD Burner
Asus Xonar Essence STX 2-channel PCI-E
802.11n wireless
Windows 7 Ultimate
MS Office 2010 Professional
Two Samsung SyncMaster 305T 30" LCD
Razer Mako 2.1 THX (Speakers)
Razer Piranha Headset
Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard
Razer Mamba Wireless Laser Gaming Mouse
Lifetime Angelic Service Labor and Phone Support with 3 Year Hardware Warranty (On site repair)
does it seem reasonable?