The $25,000 Apple Mac Pro
Jan 8

The $25,000 Apple Mac Pro

I won’t argue (at least not against Deane!) that Apple’s hardware is a tad more expensive than your run-o-the-mill WinTel gear… Not that there aren’t exceptions, but for the most part it’s true. And a good example is the newly released 8-core Mac Pro, which starts out with a base price of $2,799.

But…

If you pimp one out by clicking all the boxes, the price gets up there pretty quickly. I hit $25,246 high.

I have to confess that I broke one of Deane’s original rules by adding a pair of 30-inch Cinema HD displays. I figured, dang; as long as I’m spending like a drunken sailor, what’s another $3,600 gonna hurt?

I probably could have deselected the quad fibre channel card too, but I’d have to buy one anyway to hook up that dandy $12,399 7TB XServe RAID box; that pushes the price up to $37,645.

Yeah, that’d be great. But you know… for that kind of money I could get a decently equipped Ariel Atom instead. Aaah, what the heck! The boss won’t notice!

by Dave   January 8, 2008 8:19 PM    |   Follow Gadgetopia on Twitter

Comments

by Brooks,   January 8, 2008 10:47 PM  

Um, you haven't priced an Ariel Atom, have you?

My dream Atom is running about $86k. A decently equipped one is certainly over $50k. Great cars, though.

by Dave,   January 9, 2008 7:43 AM  

Um, you haven’t priced an Ariel Atom, have you?

Last I looked (which may have been a while ago), the base Atom from Brammo was priced in the mid-$30k range. Not that I'd go with the Ecotec myself, but the point is that you can spend a lot of cash at the Apple store.

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