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Every time a new Mac Pro model comes out everybody seems to do the same thing: goes to store.apple.com, spec out everything to the maximum, and gawk at the gian
by bodyfour 13y ago
Every time a new Mac Pro model comes out everybody seems to do the same thing: goes to store.apple.com, spec out everything to the maximum, and gawk at the giant price tag.
It's amazing to think how as recently as the 90s it was completely normal to spend $20K+ on a Sun or SGI workstation to plop on an engineers desk. Now spending that type of money requires effort, and you'll end up with a machine with a quarter terabyte of RAM, four 30" monitors, etc.
Computers are so damn cheap.
- ynniv 13y agoIn 1992 Apple sold a computer that started at $16,500 modern (2013) dollars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_IIfx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_IIfx. The Lisa was a probably a failure because it started at $23,500 modern dollars, which was a lot compared to the original Macintosh's $5,600 modern dollars. You used to have to really want access to a computer. Today's computers are a mighty bargain.