Want Wheels on Your New Mac Pro? That'll Cost $400

[MacRumors]

Apple's new Mac Pro is now available to order, with the base model priced at $5,999 in the United States. If you would prefer wheels on the computer to roll it around, though, that will cost you an extra $400.

"Customize your Mac Pro to have a stainless steel frame with wheels, which is ideal for moving your Mac Pro quickly and easily without having to lift it," says Apple. "Configuring your Mac Pro with wheels makes it about an inch taller than the frame with feet."

Like the optional $999 stand for the Pro Display XDR, the $400 wheels are already raising some eyebrows on Twitter.

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The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac ever, with up to 28-core Intel Xeon processors, up to 1.5TB of ECC RAM, up to 8TB of SSD storage, and up to AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics with 64GB of HBM2 memory. The computer also has eight PCIe expansion slots for maximum performance, expansion, and configurability.

With maxed out tech specs and all available accessories selected, including the $400 wheels, the new Mac Pro costs over $52,000 in the United States.

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[dumastudetto]

The wheels on these do look lovely, a very high quality finish. I think the price is actually reasonable and acceptable for prosumers who want ultimate Mac Pro portability.

 

[DHagan4755]

$100 for each wheel. Geesh.

 

[Marzel]

The wheels on these do look lovely, a very high quality finish. I think the price is actually reasonable and acceptable for prosumers who want ultimate Mac Pro portability.

Reasonable it's definitely not. Acceptable sure, since if you want a high end Mac you have no other choice.

As for the wheels, no finish can justify this price. Unless they are made of diamond.

 

[Plutonius]

Reasonable it's definitely not. Acceptable sure, since if you want a high end Mac you have no other choice.

As for the wheels, no finish can justify this price. Unless they are made of diamond.

I think we have to wait on the Geekbench scores on these wheels before we rush to judgement .

 

[Quu]

$5,999 for an RX 580, 8-Core CPU, 256GB SSD and 32GB of RAM.
$400 for Wheels.
$1,000 for a monitor stand.

I mean.. lol what more can you say it's just laughable.

 

[fel10]

The wheels on these do look lovely, a very high quality finish. I think the price is actually reasonable and acceptable for prosumers who want ultimate Mac Pro portability.

probably didn’t cost more than $50 to make or less.

 

[psingh01]

Imagine what tires on the Apple Car will cost!

 

[icloud]

If only the price of the wheels was the thing that swayed my purchase decision...

 

[dumastudetto]

probably didn’t cost more than $50 to make or less.

I'm betting Apple invested a huge sum of money in R&D before they even went into production.

 

[icloud]

Imagine what tires on the Apple Car will cost!

Wheels optional.

 

[nfl46]

Lol, I wonder if people that work for Apple just shake their head like, "Wow! $400 for a (stainless) steel frame with wheels.

 

[twistedpixel8]

Are they cross-climate or summer only?

 

[jclardy]

I'm betting Apple invested a huge sum of money in R&D before they even went into production.

Because they had to reinvent the wheel?

Sorry, you set it up

 

[gnomeisland]

The wheels on these do look lovely, a very high quality finish. I think the price is actually reasonable and acceptable for prosumers who want ultimate Mac Pro portability.

I don't know about reasonable but they do look nice. We'll have to see how they hold up IRL but the spoke-less design should be smooth, silent, and durable.

 

[victorm1]

At this point, Apple just has to be trolling.

 

[gruntersdad]

probably didn’t cost more than $50 to make or less.

Maybe in China , $4.95

 

[DJM1740]

Don’t worry, once the computer is in the wild and the mounting geometry is known there will be dozens of options from other sources, way below $400.

 

[gruntersdad]

They have to be snow treads. and you have to be snorting snow to pay it.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

$100 for each wheel. Geesh.

The Honda Dealer wants $333.00 for each headlamp for my CR-V. And it's just the plastic enclosure; and it eventually will turn yellow and become trash.

What I'm trying to say is that if these wheels have a superior design and materials than the usual plastic casters, then it may be worth the price.
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Don’t worry, once the computer is in the wild and the mounting geometry is known there will be dozens of options from other sources, way below $400.

There's a chance that this is a case with the casters built-in, not just adding casters to an existing case.

 

[Braderunner]

$400 to make it a little easier to move it a few inches this way, or that way. Wow!

 

[Dammit Cubs]

For a consumer, this price is way too high but I have seen the most ridiculous things charged for 20x of what I thought they should of been in an professional environment.

so while ridiculous either way, if it’s truly for a “professional” seems that Apple is adding some margin into their profit.

400 for wheels is ridiculous though...LMFAO.

 

[vartanarsen]

Can i use the maxed out version to check email?

 

[pdaholic]

I just found a set of castors for $21.98 at Home Depo. That will save me
$378.02, bringing the overall cost of my setup down to $51,621.98. Much better deal, as $52K is just too dam high.

 

[mozumder]

The problem with this is that the wheels are going to get roughed up a lot as you move them around the studio. They should have gone with a more durable finish for this.