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This is brilliant Marketing for Apple! I got the wheels when I ordered my Mac Pro so I only paid $400! :)

Shhh don’t spread that you can buy them at that steal of a price.
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Apple is testing its greed with lots of reward, stop whining about it.
if you want them to change don’t comment on anything they do.
 
Why oh why consumers give Apple so much commercial through hatefulness???
MacPro is targeted at businesses! The stand 999 USD is NOT Expensive for that branch.
Wheels are ridiculously overpriced - but again, not for consumers.

Do I agree the price for the entire Mac Pro line is absurd? YES!
But I also understand they don’t care about making high volume of these. They are not for us - Mac and Cheese eaters sitting in a futon.

I saw nobody yanking Bugatti or Lamborghini about their prices for cars.
WTF???!!!

chill out.nobody forces you to buy it :)

I think there's a mixture here of people not understanding the enterprise market where prices and expectations are very different to SME/Home markets, and a reaction to Apple's attitude when replacing the 5,1. Basically they didn't, they created product for a different sector (at a much higher price), and stuck two fingers up to many existing customers. This is one of the reasons many gall at the prices as they have left a lot of customers with nowhere to go - there is no upgrade. It's 'buy an iMac' or 'eff off and get a PC'.
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I might get some for my Mac Mini and glue them to the bottom. Pimp my Mini.
Don't for get flames or go-faster stripes!! :eek:)
 
Most of the people complaining about the price can’t afford it and aren’t the target audience. This will be like me complaining that Rolls-Royce charges too much for their cars. I don’t think Rolls-Royce really cares how I feel about their prices 😂

The intended audience for this computer doesn’t care if the monitor stands $1000 or the wheels are $700. That’s a drop in the bucket and they don’t care
 
Pure, unadulterated greed.
I spent less money getting a full set of premium brand tyres, delivered, fitted and balanced for less than this for a Honda Accord.
Did you though? Honda Accord..... premium brand.... less than $700...... 2 of the 3 fit.... can you pick the outlier?
 
LOL this was great.

Guessing someone will make a set that'll plug in the same holes on the Mac Pro box at $50 for 4.
 
Yeah, he lost all credibility with the "Escobar Phone", which was simply a rebranded Samsung Galaxy Fold and he didn't notice. MKHBD made a good video about it...
....and tried to rip people off with his iPhone cover that was a copy of a Pitaka product. And tried to rip people off by never giving out the “free iPhone” giveaway. This guy is a real Tool.
 
The most irrelevant comment of 2020 unless there is a way to mount a Mac Pro to 4 car tyres to manoeuvre around the office?
Not an irrelevant comment, merely a pointed way of showing what a scandalous markup of price Apple’s wheels are.
Your response, however, is the typical hyperbole expected in a forum in 2020.
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the difference is that you won’t be reselling your used Accord wheels in two years for 50-70% of their sticker price.
No, because the car will still be useful for at least another 10 years, unless they find a way to create a software update for the roads that the car will be incompatible with...
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good for you man
Thanks 😁
 
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Lew and Unbox Therapy is the Logan Paul Show of the Tech/ Unboxing/ Review community. Lews posts used to be- and this is five years ago- bearable and even sometimes insightful. Then he switched to his Talk Show style format, made some very bad choices on ripping his viewers off, then decided all of that was fine. He sucks. He yells too much. His posts are more about him and not about the product anymore. I unsubscribed from this idiot two years ago. Oh, and those wheels? Yea, their too expensive.
 
Did you though? Honda Accord..... premium brand.... less than $700...... 2 of the 3 fit.... can you pick the outlier?
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I spent less money getting a full set of premium brand tyres, delivered, fitted and balanced for less than this for a Honda Accord.

I bet you would not spend that much to buy Ferrari Tyres. Wrong analogy! Your Honda tires are comparable with Dell's or HP's tower weels (if there is such thing)
 
The Mac jumped the shark after the trashcan pro.

Luckily their mobile and tablet lines are still great, hopefully they don’t go to wireless charging though.
 
The only aura being generated is one of derision and shock.

The buzz being generated is all negative, not at all similar to a rolls royce.
You really think Apple didn’t consider the reaction among the commoners when they were determining the price of the wheels or the stand? We’re not the people whose opinions they could possibly care less about. We’ll buy our iPhones and AirPods and MacBooks. I’m so amused about people being outraged about the price of something that’s not in a class of something they’d ever buy. It amounts to being upset on behalf of someone else.
 
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well, what a joke!!
Are they made of gold?
Correct me if I'm wrong please, my US buddies, but doesn't someone buying these just write them off through the tax system as an expense? if so, everyone's going to be buying them and Apple can spend the money on making bright new shiny things for the rest of us!
There are much better ways to spend $700 and still get the write off, like duct tape or air freshener.
 
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