Why your must wait for Nahelm CPU for MAC PRO

[kirkbross]

Now wait a minute, you can't count the almost $300 of tax as part of the cost of the system! Taxes vary. You have to compare apples to apples, so to speak. The real question is, would you pay $425 to have Apple build it? 😀

My bad... I actually meant to not include the tax and shipping, but yeah... I'd probably pay $425 to have build it (and have it run OSX). However, I get a 6% TimeWarner Employee partner discount... so it would be $3,757. Woo Hoo! (I work for New Line Cinema).

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few little extras too... so it would probably be even closer. A solid Silverstone aluminum case similar to the Mac Pro's would be closer to $300 than $169. The Apple memory and hard drive would be slightly more too so... "bang for buck" the seemingly outdated T.O.T.L. Mac Pro is [practically] the most we can get at the moment.

The minute Harpertown Xeons are available to the public and Apple hasn't upgraded the MP... then the tune will change.

 

[98707]

My bad... I actually meant to not include the tax and shipping, but yeah... I'd probably pay $425 to have build it (and have it run OSX). However, I get a 6% TimeWarner Employee partner discount... so it would be $3,757. Woo Hoo! (I work for New Line Cinema).

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few little extras too... so it would probably be even closer. A solid Silverstone aluminum case similar to the Mac Pro's would be closer to $300 than $169. The Apple memory and hard drive would be slightly more too so... "bang for buck" the seemingly outdated T.O.T.L. Mac Pro is [practically] the most we can get at the moment.

The minute Harpertown Xeons are available to the public and Apple hasn't upgraded the MP... then the tune will change.

Newegg is selling harpertowns

 

[Wild-Bill]

The minute Harpertown Xeons are available to the public and Apple hasn't upgraded the MP... then the tune will change.

Um,

You may want to re-visit Newegg. Harpertown Xeons for all my friends. 😉

 

[newtech]

$30.00 keyboard and $6.00 mouse, here comes carpal tunnel and arthritis.

 

[toru173]

1000W Power supply? Fans? Tool-less entry? Tool-less disk caddy? The list goes on.