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No one who needs a machine that supports 1.5TB of ram is going to buy one that comes with only 32GB. Same for CPU. Charging someone for support for the high end
by gizmo686 7y ago
No one who needs a machine that supports 1.5TB of ram is going to buy one that comes with only 32GB. Same for CPU. Charging someone for support for the high end, even if they only use the low end doesn't seem to make sense.
If it is actually an issue of unit cost, sell a lower-end base. If it is to recoup development costs, find a way to price discriminate.
Otherwise, you are charging low end users for functionaility that they will literally never use.
- vondur 7y agoThat's a great point. I get that there are users who do need this kind of power. Heck, that's why companies like Silicon Graphics existed back in the day. It seems to me that a major part of the people who purchased Mac Pro's were audio producers and graphic artists, who would not need a machine of this caliber. They still want a computer like the old Mac Pro tower, relatively cheap and expandable.
- Kirby64 7y agoDepending on the user base, it wouldn't be farfetched to just buy the lowest end RAM version and upgrade the RAM yourself. When you're spending $30k on RAM... it's probably worth some time to shop around. Whether Apple supports it... well that's another question. Also, if you only NEED 32GB of RAM, then don't buy a Mac Pro. This is just like buying a Xeon motherboard anywhere else and only putting 16GB of RAM into it. Sure, you can do that, but it's a waste of money.