10-01-2006, 08:24 PM
Personally, I agree that they're overpriced once you add the price of ram. also, there aren't that many apps that need that speed. but those internal drive sleds look awfully nice....
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Anyone buy a MacPro?
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10-01-2006, 08:39 PM
I got one a few weeks ago. I love it. I paid $180 a GB for ram. Scary fast.
10-01-2006, 10:04 PM
No one has offered Apple Qualified memory at $180 per gig for the Mac Pro. If you don't have the right memory with the proper heat shields, eventually that will catch up to ya...
anyway - our kits are still at $236 or less per GB for Apple Qualified. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory
10-01-2006, 11:02 PM
[quote BigGuynRusty] ..., just priced a 1GB RAM for the Mac Pro at $239.
BGnR exactly the price I paid each for 1MB SIMM's for my first Mac II in 1987, or 100000% more per unit than current RAM, w/o adjusting for inflation. with RAM being commoditized, it's like gasoline, you buy it when you need it to keep the new vehicle on the road. unlike gasoline, at least you can recycle old RAM to beef up the best older surviving computers. if the current price of RAM is a factor in purchasing a new Mac; don't buy the new Mac because if that is the case, you don't really need it. agonizing over whether to upgrade the old 23" plastic bezeled ACD HD to a new 30" aluminum job, is a different story...
10-01-2006, 11:37 PM
Two things to remember that may temper your opinion somewhat, vision63:
1. MacPro towers are not aimed at consumers. They are aimed at people who MAKE A LIVING with their machines. IOW, these machines (and their expensive ram) pay for themselves WITHIN DAYS. A lot of our Mac Pro customers are video-editing and ad-agency houses, and the machine is put right to work. Average time till payoff of the "cost" in terms of being able to do more work more efficiently: about two weeks. 2. As ztirffrizz noted, the RAM used by the Mac Pros are a whole 'nother level over ordinary PC ram or even the DDR2 5300 used by the consumer Intel Macs. *Each stick* has its own heat sink, for feck's sake!  This is NOT your present computer's RAM. It is VERY different and thus more expensive. Does Apple mark up their RAM excessively? In most cases, yes! Our store could (if we did mail order) save you quite a bit of money over Apple's price for the same Apple Certified Spec RAM. Since we don't do mail order, we HIGHLY recommend OWC as the mail-order vendor of choice for this RAM. The Mac Pro *requires* the very highest spec of RAM, you can't go cheap on this one. I don't need to tell anyone here that Larry and the crew are GOOD PEOPLE who don't sell junk. Comparing prices directly, I see that OWC could save you around $200 for 4GB (4x1GB sticks) and almost $700 over Apple price for 8GB (4x2GB). Nuff said.
10-02-2006, 01:37 AM
[quote BigGuynRusty]Greg the Dog Sitter has one.
Not yet! Soonish! Also, I'm getting one at a, um...substantial discount.
10-02-2006, 02:30 AM
[quote onthedownlow]What store do you work in/for chas_m?
http://www.connectingpt.com
10-02-2006, 03:16 AM
My first laptop, the 540c, cost me $5040.
From there on out, all computers will be cheap.
10-02-2006, 03:27 AM
I don't doubt that they're awesome machines. But it's the "only" intel tower that Apple makes now. The others are yesterday's keynote news, so their only modern tower is an expensive machine that at this point appears to be financially prohibitive for anyone but the most well-heeled of customers. You don't have to run a bank of rendering workstations to desire or "need" the most power that you can get your hands on. At this point, this one intel tower is their only transitional offering.
My attitude doesn't come from a position of complaint but surprise. I was glad that Apple had apparently completed it's transition to intel based processors. The tower has been the venerable centerpiece of Apple's computer arsenal and I'm sure it will continue to be just that. You all make a lot great points regarding the breakthrough nature of the ram, and the nuclear properties of of it's computational prowess. That's great. More than the well-heeled bought the previous towers. That's why I suspect Apple has something else coming out. Perhaps they can ratchet down the speed a mach or two make a normal tower for normal professionals like myself. I have a feeling though, that even if Apple charged 10 grand for the thing, and the ram was $1000 per GB, this thread would read the same. |
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