Nah just a normal enterprise premium, it's not for consumers (basically just like the Mac Pro itself, XDR Display, XDR stand). Prices like this for enterprise items is good for the economy and are in most cases (though these wheels are an exception), something enterprises earn back multi-fold in saved time and time = money.
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Dramatic Unboxing of Apple's $700 Mac Pro After-Purchase Wheels Kit
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Nah just a normal enterprise premium, it's not for consumers (basically just like the Mac Pro itself, XDR Display, XDR stand). Prices like this for enterprise items is good for the economy and are in most cases (though these wheels are an exception), something enterprises earn back multi-fold in saved time and time = money.
It's about clicks. The headline $700 Mac wheels screams to every person who just feels better to let us know how bad they think Apple is to post it. That causes the target audience of the forums to feel the need to somehow defend Apple and voila, click, click, click and $ $ $ for those collecting that ad revenue on the website. They have to make money somehow so why not let a bunch of people talk about something they can't afford, don't need, and never will buy
The people on here actually defending them are definitely more pathetic.
It seems obvious that Apple is marketing these wheels as Veblen goods to exploit opulent consumers. I'd say that's more "evil" than pathetic.
People defending these wheels for reasons other than satisfying one's thirst for opulence, well, their lack of critical thinking is very pathetic.
I became a Macintosh/Apple user in 2003. 2019 I became a Google user.
I needed a new computer and bought a $200 Chromebook. It works great. This computer was the same price as Apple AirPods.
The cheapest Apple laptop is $800 more. No thanks Tim Apple.
Well.. there are shoes and there are prada shoes that cost $700.
Why cant mac pro roller-skates cost $700 too? Its premium too..
If you cant afford it, you cant afford it.
There are plenty of alternative budget options such as this...
https://www.orico.me/product/orico-computer-host-bracket-with-wheels-cpb1/
Life goes on.
Why cant mac pro roller-skates cost $700 too? Its premium too..
If you cant afford it, you cant afford it.
There are plenty of alternative budget options such as this...
https://www.orico.me/product/orico-computer-host-bracket-with-wheels-cpb1/
Life goes on.
So you agree that this markup is out of line - I get the idea of premium for Mac Pros, Displays and their stands (although the stand is a bit of a stretch to justify), but the wheels price is just silly.
While I still own Apple products, like the iPhone, I have left the Mac platform. I found them to be over priced, under performing and sadly not at a level of quality that I had experienced in years past. My ThinkPad X1 Extreme cost me 2200 and change, getting a similarly configured MacBook Pro would have been 2x that price. The Thinkpad has expandable memory, storage, and a replaceable battery.
I like to try different products and I have a Chromebook as well. I use it as a disposable laptop in situations where I wouldn't want to use a real laptop and have it stolen or damaged. If something happens to it just buy another.
They’d only be writing off the tax, not the base price of the item. As far as I know the US government doesn’t buy companies casters.
Edit: Oops, when I wrote that’s it looked like there was only one page of comments and nobody had replied. Turns out there are 4 and it’s already been addressed.
Not giving this guy a page view. Since his iPhone bending days, I've tuned him right out.
Has he grown up yet?
Has he grown up yet?
He probably is rich because of it. Videos of people destroying expensive things seems to be a popular category on YouTube. There was so many videos of people dropping phones in water before the whole water resistance thing killed that.
Lol. Apple is like fine they want wheels? $700 and you can have some damn wheels!
oh don’t want to pay $700? Guess you didn’t really want wheels that bad then did you?!?!
Did anyone else notice that the wheels were organized in the box to look like the Command symbol? One thing that Apple continues to do VERY well, regardless of the product, is the packaging.
It's more that I think nobody should care about these prices because you and me and every other consumer shouldn't be buying it in the first place. The fact that some youtubers do, is fun and all but that's not the point.
Enterprise pricing is more often than not very weird if you're gonna look at it for a consumer standpoint, but saved time or in this case ease of use is worth money.
Greed has submerged the world. I want to remodel my modest bathroom and I was quoted a price of $8000! I offered $500 and they laughed at me and then threw them out of my house. Next to go will be my Apple products if they don’t wisen up.
The difference is that you won't be driving 30K+ miles a year with your Mac Pro. See what I did there?
Yea and it even seems more ridiculous now that you can get a current iPhone for 400. That's 1 3/4 iP2020s and 2 1/2 iP2020s for stuff that has only one function.
Is this the guy who posted a 12 minute video of himself begging Apple to send him review iPhones for free before release?
Well, the original Mac Pro was well designed, with the power switch plus a handful of USB/Firewire ports and a headphone jack on the front so you could get at them when it was parked in it's natural 'under-the-desk' habitat... and the side panel was removable, so you could even push in a loose PCIe card or swap out a hard drive "in situ".
C.f. the new, form-over-function, Mac Pro where the power and Thunderbolt 3 are cleverly placed on the top, the only way in is to lift the whole external case off vertically and that requires you to first unplug everything from the back so, yeah, you are going to need to keep moving it. Magical.