i hope he is going to actually use it and not just keep it on a plexiglass stand as an art piece.
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.
apple should make the mac pro in a range of colours as a homage to the original coloured imac which kick started their revival and jony's rise to fame. Add a new lower priced version for home users and i'm sure it would be a big seller worldwide.
he's gonna be disappointed in a few years when he realizes he needs more RAM
Actually, they were HP Zs so they pretty much lasted forever without a failure, but if something did fail an HP tech would be on site the next day.
Also, you cannot buy Zs at Staples or Walmart. If you are going to be all hypothetical at least do it right.
Serious? I want to know the spec's. It really should be the fully spec'd model.
How nice to have all that money... I wish I had it![]()
As is typical with Apple and the Mac Pro, its always one step forward, two steps backwards. Its hard to tell if they want this computer to sell, or if theyre too incompetent to listen to the needs of prosumers or theyre purposely SLOWLY killing off the Mac Pro line.
Apple should have given an option to buy the Mac Pro with a standard SINGLE Radeon 280 or 290 instead of dual FirePro's. Those GPU's are completely useless to sound engineers and raise the price of the Mac Pro by a LOT.
As is typical with Apple and the Mac Pro, its always one step forward, two steps backwards. Its hard to tell if they want this computer to sell, or if theyre too incompetent to listen to the needs of prosumers or theyre purposely SLOWLY killing off the Mac Pro line.
I bet iFixit would love to get their hands on that Mac Pro. Be the first for the tear down.
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I doubt this Mac Pro will ever be used. It's going to sit in a display case like a trophy.
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....
Did you use them?Too bad the earbuds still sound like crap.
I see Tony has already put his old white EarPods up for sale on ebay for $5.
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he's gonna be disappointed in a few years when he realizes he needs more RAM
.... but then it'll go between the Cube the Apple IIc