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Have you tried to price out a comparative PC? If you even can? Because there aren't many that will take as much RAM as that $50K Mac Pro and when you do find
by EricE 5y ago
Have you tried to price out a comparative PC?
If you even can? Because there aren't many that will take as much RAM as that $50K Mac Pro and when you do find a PC that will all of the sudden you realize there isn't much of an Apple tax at all for the equivalent hardware.
Want to argue that Apple should have more variation in their offerings and price points? Sure - I heartily agree. But blithely tossing out a contextless $50K price tag as being some sort of "tax" is just silly.
- runnerup 5y agoIt’s reasonably easy to build a threadripper workstation with 1TB of RAM (upgrade able to 2TB) and 2 3090’s for $20,000. LambdaLabs will even sell you a prebuilt around that price with the same specs. That said, I wouldn’t personally get into a pissing match over x86 Apples. I think their ARM offerings are far more interesting.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>Have you tried to price out a comparative PC? Because there aren't many that will take as much RAM as that $50K Mac Pro and when you do find a PC that will all of the sudden you realize there isn't much of an Apple tax at all for the equivalent hardware You're deluding yourself with your claim. If you would have done 30 seconds of googling, you would have found out that Dell, HP, Lenovo and Puget Systems, all sell workstations that can beat the top spec Mac Pro or can build one yourself for way cheaper than them but as a business you want the support and no headache so it makes sense to buy prebuilts. So yeah, there's an Apple tax on it. https://www.imore.com/53000-pc-competition-apples-53000-mac-pro-and-its-beast https://www.imore.com/53000-pc-competition-apples-53000-mac-...