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The 1987 Mac II released at $5,498, $12,125 adjusted for inflation. Granted, that included a monitor. IMO these things are designed for companies like Pixar,
by Eric_WVGG 7y ago
The 1987 Mac II released at $5,498, $12,125 adjusted for inflation.
Granted, that included a monitor.
IMO these things are designed for companies like Pixar, Disney, and aerospace, the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" world.
- nicoburns 7y agoThis is in the context of Apple increasing its prices to ludicrous levels across its product lines though (look at the iPhones!). I'm sure it's great for short-term profitability, but I think they'll come to regret this.
- threeseed 7y agoThey have been a premium company for decades. So not sure why you think they will suddenly change.
- SahAssar 7y agoThey used to do premium performance and design at a premium price. For the macs they just seem to do a bit of design lately, and that's considering that PC's look better now than a decade or two ago and that apple still pushes proprietary stuff like this MPX Module.
- glup 7y ago“If you think the computer is expensive, you’re going to completely lose it when you find out the salary of the boffin who will put it to good use. Or, more mind-numbing yet, the cost of having neither.”
- Junk_Collector 7y agoAerospace has been going heavily towards gpu accelerated simulation via CUDA, so the lack of NVIDIA support kind of kills the market potential there.
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- haditab 7y ago> aerospace I was under the impression that most engineering software for mechanical and aerospace engineers are only supported on Windows.
- smnrchrds 7y agoI am not sure about aerospace, but for mechanical engineering, SolidWorks is a must, and it is only available on Windows. Many other important pieces of software, for example ANSYS, ABAQUS, and Fluent are not available for Mac. In fact, the only mechanical engineering software I know is available for Mac is AutoCAD.
- zerkten 7y agoI think Apple are trying to make the point that they have invested again in this space, so they hope that software developers will also invest. The expectation might not be for an immediate switch from software developers, but laying the groundwork for something longer term. We'll see how it pans out, but Apple are experiencing pressures they didn't experience a few years ago.
- mynameishere 7y agoThey were priced like a low end Sun computer, so that must have been what they were after [1]. But it still didn't make sense. The near-identical Amiga 2000 in 1987 was 1495 dollars. [1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/Sun_Price_List_Dec88.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/Sun_Price_List_Dec88.pdf
- bluedino 7y agoBack in 1999, the original Cinema Display was $1299 and the G4 Tower was $2499
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoThat's $2000 and $3800 in today's dollars
- kickopotomus 7y agoHardware was many orders of magnitude more expensive to manufacture in 1987[1]. The base model that you get for $6000 is not impressive at all by today's standards. The max specs would make it a powerhouse but it probably will also cost ~$12000. [1]: http://www.singularity.com/charts/page59.html http://www.singularity.com/charts/page59.html
- lelf 7y ago> "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" world. I don’t know, I can afford it, but Apple is losing it (see MacBook Pro fiasco).
- chaostheory 7y agoThe 2006 Mac Pro Cheese Grater model was $2,499. $3,124 adjusted for inflation. Earlier G models were even cheaper.
- Aromasin 7y agoIf aerospace get computers like this, I'd love to hear where I need to be applying to. We're running on Windows 7 machines with i5-2400 CPUs, about 4GB of RAM, and integrated graphics. All our CAD software is run on a grid system, where we access e3, Altium and Catia via a remote server. The engineers are all on hardware about 7 years old.