So, I've been a Mac laptop fan for a while, but hadn't really thought seriously about getting a Mac desktop. Anyway, Boot Camp and Parallels changed all that.
So I go looking at the mac store, see the mac pros are actually a really good deal. But after coming here all I see is people complaining that it's over-priced. So after doing some further research on sites such as newegg and mwave, just adding two 2.66ghz Xeon processors and a dual processor MB ran the cost up to around $2,000. Quite frankly the Mac Pro seems like an absolute steal, especially at educational discount prices.
So am I missing something here? Why are people calling the Mac Pro overpriced around here? Now I can understand people wanting to wait to get it for new components, or upgraded video cards and what not, but that still doesn't make Mac Pro overpriced. I can also understand someone saying you can get a machine with 90% of the functionality of the Mac Pro for half the price but... that argument works with any high end machine you're paying over $2,000 for.
So whats the deal? Am I mistaken, and it turns out there's some big clearinghouse site for Xeon processors I'm unaware of, or are the people that claim the Mac Pro is overpriced just... dead wrong?
So I go looking at the mac store, see the mac pros are actually a really good deal. But after coming here all I see is people complaining that it's over-priced. So after doing some further research on sites such as newegg and mwave, just adding two 2.66ghz Xeon processors and a dual processor MB ran the cost up to around $2,000. Quite frankly the Mac Pro seems like an absolute steal, especially at educational discount prices.
So am I missing something here? Why are people calling the Mac Pro overpriced around here? Now I can understand people wanting to wait to get it for new components, or upgraded video cards and what not, but that still doesn't make Mac Pro overpriced. I can also understand someone saying you can get a machine with 90% of the functionality of the Mac Pro for half the price but... that argument works with any high end machine you're paying over $2,000 for.
So whats the deal? Am I mistaken, and it turns out there's some big clearinghouse site for Xeon processors I'm unaware of, or are the people that claim the Mac Pro is overpriced just... dead wrong?