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$23,397 Mac Pro

Geez...do you want to donate something to a starving film student? I'll make a 'this is your life'-style documentary for you.
 
Tell you what OP. You give me 5k, it'll be the investment of the lifetime. I will pay you back come January, with %10 interest, and you can buy the new improved mac pro, as well as I will. I actually would not buy the fully loaded. I'd get a "Steve Jobs special" iMac, macbook air, and a new iPhone.

Hows that sound?:cool:

Promise ya! It's worth it!
 
i call bull-**** OP. I can't believe an apple sales rep would advise you to buy something cheaper.
 
forgive me if i am missing something here, but why spend $20k on a pimped out mac when that power is only going to be accessed when running windows?
 
Beric said:
Then maybe you should find out EXACTLY what you need, before spending 20K.

And as another poster said, spend less and give 10K to charity. People with that much money available should want to give to those who have less.
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How do you know he doesn't give money to charity to help others out? Did you ask him? And just because someone has a lot of money doesn't mean they should give all of it away.

I bet most of the people on here have computers that they spent more on when they could have gotten around okay with something less and given money to charity but didn't.
 
MVApple said:
How do you know he doesn't give money to charity to help others out? Did you ask him? And just because someone has a lot of money doesn't mean they should give all of it away.

I bet most of the people on here have computers that they spent more on when they could have gotten around okay with something less and given money to charity but didn't.
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Thank you! I had to read through this entire thread before someone echoed my thought -- in the very last post!

It's unbelievable to me that people have responded the way they have -- judging someone they know nothing about just because the OP wants to spend a lot of money on a computer. How do we know the OP doesn't give half his income away every year to good causes? Those of you responding this way make it seem like the OP is a horrible person for spending his money on himself. Again, how do we know he doesn't already "give to the greater good?"

Look at it this way -- you spend $2000 on a Mac and you make $40k per year. You just spent 5% of your annual income on a computer. Let's say the OP makes $2M a year and buys a $25000 Mac -- he's just spent a bit over 1% of his annual income on a computer. It's all relative.
 
OMG Why would you want a custom Mac Pro to go on the internet!? :eek:

Just get a MacBook dude, their fine for what you want it to do.
 
I'm not impressed by people who have money.

Tell me what you did to earn this blessing? If you are not a troll I truly feel sorry for you.

Nobody will ever like you because you can flaunt a bunch of paper around. To recap: You Lose.
 
I have not read all of the posts here, but.... Why would anyone want to spend 23k on a computer? Even if it is the Mac Pro there will be something much more advanced and just plain better out in a couple of years. I would understand if someone's business needed it to keep the doors open or for some research project but for a home computer?? If it is for personal use I do not think anyone would need a computer that costs 23k.... let alone has all the specs as this Mac Pro would. Honestly how much memory, GHz and hard drive space could a Naval architecture program need?

However if someone wanted to spend that kind of moola on a piece of equipment that FAR exceeds one's need's and will be out date in 2 years max... god bless them.
 
Screenshot of the "About this Mac" screen or it didn't happen. You guys crack me up. Some of you really believe that someone who has $25,000 to throw at a computer is going to get an account at MacRumors just to ask your advice on whether they actually should or not.
 
Another one of this newbie's posts.

Losenrout said:
I have a contact at Apple's executive level through some extensive personal and business purchases I've made from the company. I had a phone conversation with him yesterday and received some information about the delay of the 17".

Apparently the 17" was actually the first new MacBook Pro to be designed, and its revision was somewhat more radical than what was ultimately released for the 15" and Macbook. The prototype 17" was overall very similar to the new 15", but the keyboard included a number pad, and the "chicklet" keys were actually raised above the casing instead of being placed flush with the casing. Apple designed a system so that when the screen was closed, the keys would lower into the body, but when the screen was open they would be raised above. The prototype 17" unfortunately had serious problems with this mechanism, so the 15" and Macbook were subsequently designed with a more traditional keyboard. Apple didn't have time revise the new 17", causing the delay. Apparently the raised keyboard has been abandoned, but the new 17" will indeed have a number pad, and will generally be in line with the new computers released this week as expected.
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Seriously? A keyboard that retracts as you close the screen? This is beyond ridiculous. There's no way this person actually bought this Mac Pro. Please read the sign below before posting any more responses to this thread.

DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
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I just read through all 8 pages of this thread and I could only spot a handful of replies that were even somewhat relavent to the original question. The majority of the comments were just outright immature and pointlessly ridiculous. I thought the 'mac crowd' was a bit more sophisticated than this. I'm just really disappointed and ashamed that this kind of behaviour can take place in such respectable forum as this.

Please do us all a big favor and take your inferiority complexes elsewhere, and maybe spend a little more time working and little less time complaining about everything. Maybe then you too could have some financial joys to enjoy life a little.

And just because your miserable peasant lives didn't work out the way you intended it to, doesn't mean you need to take it out on people who actually did something with their lives.

Ps. Hope you enjoy the new rig, its a BEAST ;)
 
Digital Skunk said:
True. Get a 6k machine (which btw would have TONS of processing power, which you will never truly use unless you do some kind of super HD video editing, or corporate stuff), and give the rest to charity. There are starving kids everywhere around the world, and you buy a 20k machine that you won't even need.
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Do it! Enjoy your new machine! BUT. If you are going to have that much power why don't you lend a little to one of the many medical research groups that are trying to help people. (e.g. folding at home)
 
i0Nic said:
I've only read the initial post and have massive ethical concerns regarding the intentions.

Consume what you need, there are people dying in our world with no food to eat, the planet is being destroyed, us westerners are using far more resources than we need.

Why don't you invest some of that money into making your house more environmentally friendly by installing solar panels, a water tank etc. Give something to charity. Purchase some medical equipment for your local hospital. You will feel much better with yourself and will be reminded daily that you are bringing good to the world, what will a $23,000 hunk of metal bring?

We need to rethink our consumption patterns, start consuming less. What you want to do is a blatant misuse of resources, however we all should look at our own lives and see where we can make small changes to better our world.
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:apple:It is his own money but if you havent got it now wait til jan 5th! By the way I understand why you want it I had a hard time when people found out I bought a MacBook pro with top specs.:apple: Dont let your carbon print influence your decision if I did I would be covered in it!
 
johtaja said:
I just read through all 8 pages of this thread and I could only spot a handful of replies that were even somewhat relavent to the original question. The majority of the comments were just outright immature and pointlessly ridiculous. I thought the 'mac crowd' was a bit more sophisticated than this. I'm just really disappointed and ashamed that this kind of behaviour can take place in such respectable forum as this.

Please do us all a big favor and take your inferiority complexes elsewhere, and maybe spend a little more time working and little less time complaining about everything. Maybe then you too could have some financial joys to enjoy life a little.

And just because your miserable peasant lives didn't work out the way you intended it to, doesn't mean you need to take it out on people who actually did something with their lives.

Ps. Hope you enjoy the new rig, its a BEAST ;)
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Thank you, you beat me to it.. Good lord.
 
johtaja said:
I just read through all 8 pages of this thread and I could only spot a handful of replies that were even somewhat relavent to the original question. The majority of the comments were just outright immature and pointlessly ridiculous. I thought the 'mac crowd' was a bit more sophisticated than this. I'm just really disappointed and ashamed that this kind of behaviour can take place in such respectable forum as this.
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The original post was a troll and now you're trolling. Please do us all a big favor and take it elsewhere.
 
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