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iPod and Nest Creator Tony Fadell May Have Purchased (RED) EarPods and Mac Pro for $1.4 Million [Updated]
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Why? He will probably buy a fully maxed out 12 core MacPro for daily use. With his money, a fully loaded MacPro is equivalent to about 10 cents.
Thanks for the first hand account. Did Steve's wife bid on anything?I saw these in the flesh at Sothebys.
Perhaps I am the only here who did?
I have not seen the black macpro, but the RED one was utterly, surprisingly, beautiful.
The Leica was also quite amazing. Essentially a perfect version of the type of camera Leica already produce. Truly one of a kind. My choice
The bidding on the macpro was the strangest for any item ever, there were 2 bidders who went up in $100,000 and $10,000 units. $200,000 then 210,000; 300,00 then 310,000 up to 800,000 and 810,000. Unique for any auction. Fitting? The bidder for the even 100,000s was in the room, the winner was on the phone.
Tim Cook was in the room and did not bid on anything.
A fool and his money.....
Its his money, and the red mac pro is appealingly pretty.... but if I recall correctly, product red has an astonishingly low percent of donations that actually get to the charities.... I think it's something like 20%.... so it really is pissing away your money with them....
Its his money, and the red mac pro is appealingly pretty.... but if I recall correctly, product red has an astonishingly low percent of donations that actually get to the charities.... I think it's something like 20%.... so it really is pissing away your money with them....
The solid gold....
EarPods maybe are not so interesting, even if any have the millions to bid....But the red Mac Pro...........Not only too few in the wild, moreover, a special designed one....
For people with the millions, an opportunity to help and get a truly original Apple piece of hardware.....
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EarPods maybe are not so interesting, even if any have the millions to bid....But the red Mac Pro......
.....Not only too few in the wild, moreover, a special designed one....For people with the millions, an opportunity to help and get a truly original Apple piece of hardware.....
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We all feel that way, no matter what computer we get.
In the photo, I think he's examining the back wondering, "Where the heck does the DVD go?"
It's funny that you have to say "actually" and then mention one product. Almost like, "Eexceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis."
Not exactly typical for a company that has for years dominated the cheapest corner of the market (both in price and materials) and has routinely scored at or near the bottom in reliability, customer service, and customer satisfaction, so I think my point stands.
Furthermore, I didn't mention "Z's," you did, so my hypothetical was, in fact, correct; it was your postulation that chased the exception to the rule.
does not imply seriousness I do not know, for that price this thing should be equipped with EVERYTHING!
How nice to have all that money... I wish I had it
Please give me the names of the people who are stopping you?
Why would Apple spend all this money on R&D for a brand new design let alone manufacturing process, US manufacturing, etc etc only to try to kill the product?
I love the warm glow of the colour on that. Would look great under my Christmas tree if anyone wants to steal it and post it to me in the UK. Not sure I could quite have stretched to $1.4 myself somehow as not even my house cost that much.
I actually think this looks far nicer than the black? Hell a computer tower I want to look at? That is a first for me, even for Apple.
I actually think this looks far nicer than the black? Hell a computer tower I want to look at? That is a first for me, even for Apple.
Nonsense. Have you read the financial statement of One.org (of which RED is a division)? I have. The complete One organisation runs on about $30 Million of expenses, while RED only raised more than $200 Million and donated this to the Global Fund.
So, even if you do not take the other divisions of One into account, the percentage of RED proceedings that goes to charities is about 85%.
Just quoting you so that more ppl can laugh!
Omg, almost spewed latte out my nose... =)
I do very high end VFX work for Film and TV amongst other things. And while there are some Very high end need for very specific machines - particles and fluid simulations are one. For a general purpose workstation this will be perfect.
I just spec'd out a Boxx to get the same sort of processing power as spec'd on Apple and was hitting $14K. I recently did a config for a company doing Wind simulation work and With 4 Tesla K20 Cards and it cost them a few hundred short of $50,000K - but how many people need that.
Over the past 10 years I have freelanced for about 60 companies. Pretty much all on Mac Pro, with the odd iMac or PC.
90% of all macro's I have ever used in companies have been left stock and bought with a moderate level of configuration and never upgraded.
They sit there consuming 480w with a mid spec, 8 core and mid-high end Graphics card with half of the 2 memory board filled. 1 main stock drive and possibly 1 of the other 3 filled. Half the time software insn't even configured to use the Multi Procs
Well over half of the companies required me to work from a server over Gigabit ethernet line along with 2-30 other artists - mostly on a very bottle necked server.
Sometimes you get a machine / studio that has every machine crammed with every card under the sun. Audio cards etc and they are never used. they just siting in the whirring away eating up Watts.
The nMP will allow for:
Cluster based Thunderbolt 2 Networking
Centralised Storage at 20gb/s speeds - daisychained
The possibility to have a single box external cards - teslas, Red Card, Audio cards, that anyone on the network to use.
The Internal memory and bus is way faster than even the $50K Tesla I spec'd As is the external - didn't even have TB. just e-sata ( which most people forget eats up the internal bandwidth too )
The unknowns are
Cost for the add on's but it's Apple so they are going to be pricey.
I am expecting to pay about $12-14K for a fully maxed out machine - Ram / Main drive etc.
Is the Graphics Card replaceable in the future.
As I said at the start I'd ben freelancing on these since 2003... the nMacPro in 2003 (presumably fully spec'd out) would have been the 8th Fastest super computer on earth. That'll do me.