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Where to buy a New but old mac pro

RoastingPig said:
Update: didn't work since its only available in stores and not online, best buy didn't price match. but they would price match if your mailing address is within 25 miles of that Arlington Frys. Dumb.
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Price matching is about competing with another retailer. If Arlington Frys won't sell it to you over the internet then they aren't competing with BestBuy in your location.

The price matching policy is largely aimed at stopping folks from "showrooming" goods in a physical BB store and then go home and buy from Amazon/Newegg/etc. If going to loose the sale then "bite the bullet" and sell at the lower cost. If other store wasn't going to sell it to you... then why? You are only bluffing. Why bite on a bluff?
 
wildmac said:
I do have to wonder now how long there will be Mac versions of PCI/PCIe video cards now with the nMP change. You might buy a cMP now, and not be able to get a new video card in 2 years...
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I have only an amateurish understanding of this, but I believe there will almost certainly still be cMP PC card options for the next two years, for the following reasons:

1) AMD and Nvidia drivers are typically universal drivers for entire families of GPUs. So including drivers for any AMD/Nvidia GPU that comes in a Mac brings compatibility for a slew of other cards.

2) I think self-init is unlikely to go away in the next two years, which enables PC cards to use these drivers, but even if it does go away, there is still ATY_INIT which does the same thing.

3) Firmware ROM files are derived by some hard working folks from similar-model AMD and Nvidia GPUs in Macs. Unless Apple goes all-Intel in the next two years, I don't see this changing. Even if it does go away, many people don't even bother to flash in the first place and live without boot screens.

Honestly the only problem I can think of in the next 2 years is that GPUs are ever more power hungry. What's next, 10-pin power connectors?
 
wildmac said:
I do have to wonder now how long there will be Mac versions of PCI/PCIe video cards now with the nMP change. You might buy a cMP now, and not be able to get a new video card in 2 years...
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I'm sure this is true.

But there's plenty in the cMP's favor that's not being discussed in this thread. Storage -- how to get it, how much it costs.

My cMP has 12 TB in it, and I could add more.

Every time I'm tempted to place a nMP order, I remember that I'll have to buy an enclosure for my disks -- what's the empty Promise Pegasus? $700? That's probably fair for what it is, but it immediately adds $700 to the nMP's price.
 
RoastingPig said:
Update: didn't work since its only available in stores and not online, best buy didn't price match. but they would price match if your mailing address is within 25 miles of that Arlington Frys. Dumb.
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I might try it in store.. (I assume you called the number). Might get a different response from an 18-year-old sales associate.
 
wildmac said:
I might try it in store.. (I assume you called the number). Might get a different response from an 18-year-old sales associate.
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i called the 188 best buy number but yeh i didn't spend much time with him or argue so i think you could get it done with a stern tone
 
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