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I wish this would be half the price tag... I'd buy it right away. Quoting from the page: "What's in the box - Mac Pro, Power Cord, Keyboard and Mouse sold separately". Funny that one of the three items really doesn't belong on that list.
No oxford comma: 'keyboard and mouse' are one entry in the list.
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You ever tried to edit 4K video? Real time editing is very important to post-production studios and when you are adding effects, rendering etc in a time sensitive environment - and you are a Final Cut person - then this is a great tool. This is not for your average dev or photo person, this is legitimately a 'Pro' machine aimed at very small a subset of Apple customers who actually mean quite a bit to the company. It…
But then, wouldn't you want a beefier machine? 64Gb of RAM seems a bit on the low side for such tasks. I would also think having multiple disks would be a pretty important feature (so you can stripe them for speed...) A single SSD? Really?
With disk in PCIe and a good controller you are getting around 1gb per second disk action so you have more than enough headroom.
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Video editors, recording engineers, anyone who needs a super powerful desktop that runs os x and has a big budget for such things. I am baffled as to why apple went with such bespoke / underpowered hardware. It would have been relatively simple to update the internals of the existing mac pros and add thunderbolt 2 support.
Yup, and they could have pushed out a Mac Pro update much faster if they stuck with the old tower design.
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If you're doing 4K check out Dell, they actually have a monitor for it.
I actually dont, but I leased office space in a post-prod studio for a long time and am still friends with the owner. There is a demand for raw horsepower on a level many people dont understand.
My preferred architecture for serious users at the moment is to have the horsepower in a datacentre, monster boxes with 96 cores and 2T RAM, connected to SAN via Infiniband/Fibre Channel, and on the user's desktop, a thin client, connected to it via gigE. Schlepping the data back from the DC to the office, crunching it on a normal desktop box and sending it back again is a wild goose chase.
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This is more Intel not Apple. http://ark.intel.com/products/75283/ Retail price for that CPU is 2.7k... you are paying maybe a $500 markup?
Closer to $1000, but that's not surprising really. I believe the "3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache" chip is this one http://ark.intel.com/products/75780 which has an RRP of $583. The difference in retail prices for those two chips is $2031 (2614-583) but you're paying Apple $3000 for that upgrade.
Order a Dell and upgrade the ram. I bet you pay > 33% markup.
Or go order a car and get the premium Boise sound system. I bet you also pay > 33% markup
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If you're prepared/have $13k to spend on a Mac Pro, what's $69?
This reminds me of: If you are paying 20k for a car whats 500 extra for the CD-changer? What about the heated rear view mirrors? These things add up. Just saying be careful with that thinking in general. :)
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If you're doing 4K check out Dell, they actually have a monitor for it.
I actually dont, but I leased office space in a post-prod studio for a long time and am still friends with the owner. There is a demand for raw horsepower on a level many people dont understand.
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If you're prepared/have $13k to spend on a Mac Pro, what's $69?
This reminds me of: If you are paying 20k for a car whats 500 extra for the CD-changer? What about the heated rear view mirrors? These things add up. Just saying be careful with that thinking in general. :)
Dunno why, but I've always felt Apple (and others too) seem to chintz out on the 'upsell' portion. I just configured a new Mac Pro for $13k, and I still need to tack on another $69 for a trackpad. WTH? Couldn't they say - "hey, you're buying a machine for over $5k - would you like a complimentary mouse or trackpad with this?" EDIT: yes, I do know why. It feels stingy. That's why.
Dunno why, but I've always felt Apple (and others too) seem to chintz out on the 'upsell' portion. I just configured a new Mac Pro for $13k, and I still need to tack on another $69 for a trackpad. WTH? Couldn't they say - "hey, you're buying a machine for over $5k - would you like a complimentary mouse or trackpad with this?" EDIT: yes, I do know why. It feels stingy. That's why.
13k? Was that top of the line, or is there room for more? Also, yeah, I really don't see why Apple can't throw in a keyboard and mouse for free if you were to want one.