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Has anyone actually bought a maxed-out $24,000 Mac Pro?

Digital Skunk said:
Never seen a receipt for $25,000 on one computer... but my university comms department did drop 2.5 million on updating the building's labs with 23" ACDs and pretty high end Mac Pros.

Configuring a Mac Pro, then adding 98 more of the same configuration, then adding 99 vTraks isn't a big deal everyone.

The only thing good about buying the parts directly from Apple is that they will be covered under Apple Care, after that, it's nothing else. I still wouldn't buy from Apple but it does have it's advantages for some people.... I guess.
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The advantages are debatable given the comparative level/quality of expertise of many AASPs and Apple service itself (well, the fact that it's crap is not debatable), but it's something that as a business it's best to do from a cover standpoint. We've never maxed out a Pro but most of our recent ones have the full complement of SAS drives, RAID and the FX5600. Unless it's external, we don't buy third-party storage or memory.
 
When I was (much) younger, I worked in sales for a local computer store chain. This was back in the days of the Apple //c, IBM PC XT and the original Macintosh. Anyway, this guy comes in and wants to buy the most expensive computer we sell. "Just set me up," he says. We're plenty happy to do so, but we try asking him questions about how he'll use it, what he needs, etc. He stops us and says that he's getting a divorce and just wants the computer so his wife doesn't get too much cash.

Kinda funny.

Left with a Mac 512K, a Hard Disk 20, an ImageWriter, a modem, some software and various boxes of cables, paper, disks, etc. Spent like $7000 or so - in 1985 dollars.
 
Sehnsucht said:
Wait, I thought all conservatives are ultra-low-income rednecks who buy PCs at Wal-Mart. :confused:
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No those are the conservatives from the movies.

But real conservatives are the people that goes to church and are real "christians" and own legitimate businesses and make good money or people that are wealthy that have traditions and legacies in their families that are considered old money.
 
xraydoc said:
When I was (much) younger, I worked in sales for a local computer store chain. This was back in the days of the Apple //c, IBM PC XT and the original Macintosh. Anyway, this guy comes in and wants to buy the most expensive computer we sell. "Just set me up," he says. We're plenty happy to do so, but we try asking him questions about how he'll use it, what he needs, etc. He stops us and says that he's getting a divorce and just wants the computer so his wife doesn't get too much cash.

Kinda funny.

Left with a Mac 512K, a Hard Disk 20, an ImageWriter, a modem, some software and various boxes of cables, paper, disks, etc. Spent like $7000 or so - in 1985 dollars.
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LOL. :D
 
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