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I'm pretty sure Intel gives Apple a huge discount vs. the retail prices that AnandTech posted. Is it newsworthy that Mac Pros will be expensive? They have alw
by fsckin 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Intel gives Apple a huge discount vs. the retail prices that AnandTech posted.
Is it newsworthy that Mac Pros will be expensive? They have always been >$1000 more expensive than a comparable PC.
People who care about the price difference will run a Hackintosh. If you have more money than sense (or time, patience, etc) then the Mac Pro is a pretty sweet machine.
- joevandyk 13y agoHe's saying these will be more expensive than usual. That is newsworthy.
- zdw 13y ago> They have always been >$1000 more expensive than a comparable PC. Depends what you view as comparable. The price delta between a Mac Pro and a HP or Dell workstation with Xeon CPU's and ECC Ram is usually far under $1000 for comparable base models.
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- atonse 13y agoThese are truly professional workstations. The kinds of customers that actually "need" a Mac Pro, are spending way, way more on salaries than on equipment, for this to make a huge difference. All this is assuming, of course, that the new Mac Pros live up to the hype and provide those amazing performance gains. (Hardware AND software)
- minor_nitwit 13y agoAny evidence of software gains from OSX? Hardware is hardware, so the pretty Mac Pro box isn't worth much, when the same hardware is available elsewhere. Perhaps it makes the employees feel more important at work. That said, a couple of days ago, HN had an article with evidence that the more you make your employees feel like the company is on the edge of collapse - the better they'll perform.
- rsynnott 13y agoIntel rarely gives substantial discounts to OEMs on CPUs (except or things like the ultrabooks, where a substantial discount was given).