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Wow, Apple with its customer base is ripe for some disruption. One can get the same performance as the cheapest version of this product for $1000, instead of $6

by effie 7y ago

Wow, Apple with its customer base is ripe for some disruption. One can get the same performance as the cheapest version of this product for $1000, instead of $6000 (except for the afterburner card, whose benefit is not so cleat to me now). I have a hard time believing that Apple ecosystem and its applications are so good to audio/video creators that they pay 6x as much as the value of the hardware. It seems to me those buyers are actually paying for the design and for the status symbol, like people pay for suits or expensive watches. Not because they need this machine and its ecosystem for production.

erikpukinskis 7y ago
This is like saying you can get the same calories as a high end steak by eating $0.50 worth of table sugar. Technically true. Yet not a useful substitution for anyone but hummingbirds.
- effie 7y ago
  So what is so good about this steak computer that warrants 6x the cost of the hardware? The afterburner card?
  - erikpukinskis 7y ago
    Hard to say exactly because you didn't provide your build. But I've specced out sub-$1000 PCs recently and you have to make a lot of sacrifices to get there. A good gaming PC with a high end GPU is going to start in the $1400 range.
    - effie 7y ago
      For example here: Budget build for $1100: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HGNWHh https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HGNWHh More beefy I/O build for $1500: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KWCtMZ https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KWCtMZ And those are prices in retail. One can get this kind of machine second hand at 30-50% discount. These would have comparable performance to what Apple is proposing for $6000, except for the Afterburner card, which I am not so sure about. Doubt it is worth $4000 though. High-end gaming setup would begin to touch $2000, but that is not what I am talking about.
brokenmachine 7y ago
Apple's customer base seems to be suffering some kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome, they definitely "think different" and bend over and cough when requested.

by effie 7y ago

erikpukinskis 7y ago

This is like saying you can get the same calories as a high end steak by eating $0.50 worth of table sugar. Technically true. Yet not a useful substitution for anyone but hummingbirds.

effie 7y ago
So what is so good about this steak computer that warrants 6x the cost of the hardware? The afterburner card?
- erikpukinskis 7y ago
  Hard to say exactly because you didn't provide your build. But I've specced out sub-$1000 PCs recently and you have to make a lot of sacrifices to get there. A good gaming PC with a high end GPU is going to start in the $1400 range.
  - effie 7y ago
    For example here: Budget build for $1100: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HGNWHh https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HGNWHh More beefy I/O build for $1500: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KWCtMZ https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KWCtMZ And those are prices in retail. One can get this kind of machine second hand at 30-50% discount. These would have comparable performance to what Apple is proposing for $6000, except for the Afterburner card, which I am not so sure about. Doubt it is worth $4000 though. High-end gaming setup would begin to touch $2000, but that is not what I am talking about.

brokenmachine 7y ago

Apple's customer base seems to be suffering some kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome, they definitely "think different" and bend over and cough when requested.