Mac Pros and the 16" MacBook Pros would be a nice October surprise.
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That's the thing I do not get with people making 'fun' of a price. Apple have employees round the world that deal with the analytical side of pricing. They don't just pick a random figure and say "yes, that'll do". There's always a market (when dealing with reputable businesses) for something and just because you are not in the market, doesn't make it a useless overpriced product.
You must not have much experience in a professional environment..
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Very capable?
Well, the problem I see is that anyone who gets this is likely to get at least 1, if not 2 Pro Vega II Duo cards. The $6000 base price I think included a crappy, far from "pro" Graphics card and no RAM/Storage/Basic Processor. If the Pro Vega II Duos are around $2800 a piece to compete with the Titan RTX, then it's basically a $12000 machine.
Not counting the upgraded Processors, extra RAM and HD space everyone will opt for since Apple cripples the entry level of everything it makes and gouges for storage/RAM upgrades.
So yes, this is built for a small market, and for rich people and studios, and yes, they can afford it, but please don't think the $6000 base machine can do anything. That is a $2500 PC as far as performance goes. It has the POTENTIAL to get insane performance, but you'll be dropping $15,000 - $18,000 each or more if you are a studio. You could likely build 2-3 PCS with comparable performance for that $15,000, but then you'd need to hire 2-3 more editors. Likely the cachet of the machine will help them charge their customers 20% more per session and they'll make their money back.
Yeah. And the reality is "workstation" class hardware has always been obscenely expensive compared to similar desktop hardware. Guys building their gaming rigs seem to miss this all the time.
I don't need the Xeons and I don't care about ECC memory. I'm never going to pay for that kind of hardware. But people need to stop pretending the costs for these components are close to more standard desktop fare.
Apple does not make a consumer grade tower. The Mini and the iMac are the only consumer desktops they still make. In the consumer space they have made it clear for well over a decade that they do not have any interest in the "I want to upgrade my own desktop" crowd to any real degree. And it makes sense because that crowd is a niche crowd and not even kinda the group Apple cares about supporting.
If you're in that group and want macOS, welcome to Hackintosh city. That's your option. Having macOS on whatever computer you desire is not some inalienable right. (And I say this as someone who would love a machine in that space.)
Just the stand for the monitor cost $999??? Wow, that is very cheap........
An Apple buck.
From someone who works in Film VFX, I was disappointed Apple did not go down the Nvidia route. Also the monitor stand should have been included and charge 6k, (still an amazing deal) thats was a BIG marketing fail from Apple.
No one says you have to use the Apple monitor, there are many nice monitors with stands for $1500 to $2500.
Trust me, you don't want the $6000 model.
You want the $15,000 version.
Apple will sell ZERO of the base $6000 model.
ZEROOOOOOOOO.
I will be buying 3 full blown units for our video editing facility.....It's the "pro" computer that we have been waiting for years, to replace the aging 2012 5,1's
Lets play a game called "Sarcastic or Uninformed"..... Who wants to go first?
Do you remember when, this spring, there was a week when Apple released a new product every day for like three consecutive days? They release new products without events fairly often, actually. The 2018 MacBook Pros are a good example as well.
Most people expect a Press Release of some kind announcing the release of both these products. Probably 1 day apart from each other. Basically any day now.
Thank you!
I've tried to point that out to a few very loosely informed users here and they either don't remember or start moving goalposts around and claiming that "yeah, but those weren't TOTALLY new products like THIS time"
lmao
Ridiculous..
Depending on the memory configs you might want to think about selling more like 40-50 shares. On the HP Z8, the 768GB option is $56,000, and $112,000 for the 1.5TB. They do discount that by 20% right now though
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Fully agree, We got our 3 2010 5,1's going on 9 ash years now and they are still going. They were in the $12k range maxed out 2.93 12 core, 128GB of RAM, 10GB optical fiber cards. dying for these new ones to be released, we are a mixed OS facility and just got 3 HP Z8's crazy money....$26k each, but I expect the Macs will long out last the PC's.
Amortized over a 5 year period makes the cost much more palatable to the upper management.
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One day, I hope that monitor drops in price. I'm still using my 27" TB monitor - one of the best monitors I've ever owned. Can't even imagine how good this one will be!