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A Maxed Out Mac Pro Will Cost Over $52,000

@All the complainers about the price tag:

This machine is being assembled in the USA, right? And from what I heard, the only supplier to be able to make enough special screws for the machine in the US is charging 600$ per screw - or was that the American supplier, that charged the pentagon 600 $ for a tank clutch washer that costs them 27 $ to make? I am getting old and mix up things I guess.
 
skipper63 said:
@All the complainers about the price tag:

This machine is being assembled in the USA, right? And from what I heard, the only supplier to be able to make enough special screws for the machine in the US is charging 600$ per screw - or was that the American supplier, that charged the pentagon 600 $ for a tank clutch washer that costs them 27 $ to make? I am getting old and mix up things I guess.
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"You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?"

- Julius Levinson
 
Mousse said:
Do they accept first born child as payment? Witches, trolls, warlocks and such always want first born as payment for special services.

I've got a rowdy teen I want to unload and if I can get a brand spanking new computer in the bargain, all the better.:D
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You too? It's my second born 13 year old son giving me grief...
 
logan_redroxx said:
Thats insane price...
Thats almost my 2 year earnings before tax & sales tax alone beats my credit card limit..... Don't think I can buy it even if I open a gofundme page...lol...
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Lol, don't give people ideas. Next thing we know, people are creating GoFundMe to purchase one. Lol.
 
As I recall $60K was about the price of our VAX minicomputer setup in 1983. RAM was in megabytes, and the tape drive cabinet was bigger than the computer. Does anyone have an idea of the performance delta between the maxed-out Mac and the old VAX machines?
 
Suddenly AppleCare at $299 becomes the biggest bargain in the history of computing!!!

I will be very happy with my iMacPro for a very long time (My trash can lasted me 4 years and my 2006 MP lasted 5), but I am really trying to figure out how a single processor can access 1.5TB of RAM efficiently!
 
the $400 wheels
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WTF?! I can accept there’s some advanced technology in the stand that makes it expensive (though not a grand) but $400 for some flipping casters?!

How anybody can justify this as a reasonable professional expense? I love MacOS (and hate Windows) as much as the next guy, and when it’s a couple of hundred extra quid to run a desktop or laptop with MacOS I think it’s worth it for the better user experience, but with these markups we must be looking at thousands more than the same hardware running Windows, right? That’s surely pretty hard to justify.
 
$84,778 Australian to max everything. Not including software or Apple care. That's nearly 1/4 of my mortgage!
$10,800 for a build more suitable to my usage patterns.
Glad I don't need/want one, and so is my credit card.
 
benshive said:
Well that's the thing. People were complaining about Apple not using pro to represent something professionals are going to want to use. Now that there is a product that does that people are complaining about the price, as if professional grade hardware is cheap.
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That's not what people are really complaining about. Apple have re-defined "pro" as "someone editing 8k ProRes video" and made a niche machine for them. Anybody who just wanted a medium-powered Mac with space for a medium-powered GPU and their choice of display has basically been told to bog off.

The $50k configurations may be brilliant for those that need that power* - the problem is that the $6k entry price includes a lot of expansion potential that won't pay off unless you plan to add another $10k worth of upgrades. The people who might have previously spent $3-4k on a Mac Pro (which would have included me in 2017 if there'd been some option other than the trashcan) have been pretty much stuffed.

OK, both the $999 display stand and the $400 wheels are funny, too (but my prediction of wheels at $399 for a pack of 3 was a bit off...)

(* at least for the next few months, until more PC workstations with the 2019 Xeon Ws come out - currently most PC workstations that support quad GPUs, accelerators and 1TB+ of RAM can only do so by using dual high-end Xeons).
 
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Fully loaded (with 4TB SSD and without wheels) with Pro XDR display and stand. Christmas! 🎁
 
I'm not going to mock or complain about the pricing; Apple has always priced their stuff accordingly no matter what it is (tablet, phone, computer, whatever). What I do suspect is they priced all of this high enough to keep it away from the fringe consumers (think gold Apple watches at $15,000). I'm not comparing the computing power of this to an iMac; there is none. But you can edit videos on a iMac. And the watch comparison isn't entirely fair, since there are no technical differences between a gold and aluminum model.

If your work requirements need a $40,000+ computer, I'm assuming that you think this is a fair deal. For the rest of us, we can just sit back in awe.
 
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