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

[mmomega]

I wonder if they issue the Apple Card with the kind of credit limit needed to purchase a maxed out version with display? If so, it's a mere $3,333USD per month for 18 months interest free.

For myself, my Apple card limit is NOWHERE close to a maxed out Mac Pro.

My car payment is the highest single personal monthly payment I've EVER had in my 40 years, more than my mortgages, and I still am not over it when I see the note come out every month.

 

[Lucas284]

problem is not the 50-60k for the maxed out model. only 1 of 10000 users will order that.
problem is that under 10k you cant buy anything that makes sense with this mac pro.

the 580 is a crappy card costing $250 retail, so you need to add 2.5k for a pro vega
the 256gb ssd is a joke, you need at least 1tb. its proprietary and must be from apple
only with this you're already almost at 10k.. with an 8core xeon
for that money you can get a 32core threadripper with four 2080 11gb nvidia cards and lots of ram
for multicore-software such a system will be almost 4 times faster than this mac pro ...

the big question now is: what can you buy, install on your own?

a better amd card (do standard pc cards work?)
memory (should work)
the cpu (should work, but where can you order these cpus?)
an additional standard ssd for storage (space/connectors?)

Even then, you’ll still be running Windows..

 

[zzzachi]

Even then, you’ll still be running Windows..

the requirement is not only to run macos,
it is mainly to do my job and i want the best i can get for the investment.

and i didnt say I prefer a pc, i just said its price/performance ratio is way better.

now, already pre 2012 people bought ram or other parts themselves.
my mac pro 2012 is fully upgraded (ram, drives, gpu and best cpu) without apple surcharge

so why not talk about what is possible and what makes sense for the mac pro 2019?

 

[Tech198]

cool !... $52.000

Just as long it behaves like a $52,000 Mac.

 

[macfacts]

I don't see the problem or why MacRumurs is reporting on this. It's a professional product aimed at a highly professional sector. This incredible piece of creativeness will pay for itself many times over when used in the environments that it is aimed for.

A basic RED 8K camera is 50K upwards - a Phantom camera used for extreme sports film is 100K upwards. That's the industry.
This Mac Pro is the true ultimate. It's the best of the best for the absolute best. Period.
It's not aimed at the MacBook Air customer!

This is aimed at users locked into macos. They have no choice.

 

[CooperBox]

As this relates to the price of a new car, what trade-in allowance will I get for this?

 

[Lucas284]

As this relates to the price of a new car, what trade-in allowance will I get for this?

Free recycling.

 

[Banglazed]

1.5TB RAM at Apple: $25000; same at HP is $46080.
The pricing is not that bad in that market...

Agreed. I found many of the other components are priced comparable or cheaper to other OEM like Dell, HP, etc based on similar specs. At 6% discount for the holidays, it’s still a bargain.

 

[zzzachi]

I don't see the problem or why MacRumurs is reporting on this. It's a professional product aimed at a highly professional sector. This incredible piece of creativeness will pay for itself many times over when used in the environments that it is aimed for.

A basic RED 8K camera is 50K upwards - a Phantom camera used for extreme sports film is 100K upwards. That's the industry.
This Mac Pro is the true ultimate. It's the best of the best for the absolute best. Period.
It's not aimed at the MacBook Air customer!

You're making it yourself too easy. The price/performance ratio for a Mac Pro was never as bad as with this one. PCs were always cheaper but 2012 you didnt get a way faster PC for a third of the price. For me the Mac Pro is over-engineered in a wrong way. Apple obviously only talked to hollywood movie studios and not to people of other businesses using mac pros. Yes if i have a blooming studio and i can charge my clients every hour of work on the mac pro, the investment financed at some point. but that applies for every situation where the cost of the computer is irrelevant compared to the cash coming in. and i doesnt change the fact that you can save loads of money if you go with a PC. finally if you add in that you cant use nvidia cards, that upgrades and the future of mac pros are generally unsafe.... specially the lower end of an investment in a mac pro is simply not very attractive.