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  Timon

  1 year ago

  When I saw this I went to apple.com to see how much it would be possible to spend on a high end computer these days -- a Mac Pro with 2 x 3.2 Ghz 8 core processor (16 cores total), 32 gigs of ram, a $3000 Nvidia card, and fully maxed out other options from the customization page gives this quote:
  
  "Subtotal Please note that your subtotal does not include sales tax or rebates. $26,673.00"
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  Elijah M

  1 year ago

  The rebates should bring it down to ¢26,573.
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  Gary McGath

  1 year ago

  That ad says "Our most powerful computer ever," not "THE most powerful computer ever."
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  David

  1 year ago

  Man...
  
  I miss my Commie 64 now. I miss having to use multiple 5" floppies to run a game.
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  Ryan Radia

  1 year ago

  Hard to believe that in our pockets we each have a mobile phone orders of magnitude more powerful than that machine, not to mention much smaller and less power-hungry. Few laws are as great as Moore's.
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  Coops

  1 year ago

  Yeah and I can build a better system than the Mac Pro for less :)
  
  /Apple makes way too much on the "upgrades" from their standard configurations.
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  Sarah

  1 year ago

  My favorite quote ever, from Richard Greenblatt, creator (in some versions of history) of the LISP machine, the premier hardware of artificial intelligence ca 1980:
  
  "The LISP machine will never require more than 256K of memory."
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  Andrew

  1 year ago

  Geez, even in a Tandy thread some brainwashed MS fanboi has to knock Macs. Get a life.
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  Todd

  1 year ago

  Nothing worse than spending a ton of money on a Mac and then none of your accessories work because nobody cares to make drivers for your "high-end" computer.
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  Vaius

  4 months ago

  Funny how this causes you to start bashing macs, when the Tandy ISN'T EVEN A MAC.
  
  And ever since 2005, Macs have been able to run Windows on Mac. So, your "nobody makes the drivers" statement is invalid.
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  Ryan Radia

  1 year ago

  Coops--no, you can't. I'm as anti-Mac as they come but the Mac Pro dual Harpertown is as well-priced as anything you can put together assuming you buy extra RAM, video cards, etc from NewEgg.
  
  It's also very tough to find a reliable, well-reviewed dual Harpertown mobo with two PCI-E 2.0 slots and 8 FB-DIMM slots.
  
  Todd--Windows works on Macs, you know.
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  Ian Blincoe

  1 year ago

  8499*(1.062044)^19=26,673
  isn't inflation like 3.25%?
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  bob

  2 weeks ago

  no its 325% the number is multiplyed by 3.25
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  Aaron

  1 year ago

  @Todd: Now Vista users are the ones complaining that none of their hardware works and there aren't any drivers.
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  Chad

  1 year ago

  Whoa.. I'm guessing that the 1980s must have been unbelievably backwards times. I don't remember any of them, since I was still in pampers in 1987.
  
  So my question to all of you really old people is; what was the market for this insanely priced system? Did people take out bank loans to buy a system such as this, or was this market to mostly business customers?
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  Jon H

  1 year ago

  " Did people take out bank loans to buy a system such as this, or was this market to mostly business customers?"
  
  Keep in mind that this is Tandy. ie, RadioShack.
  
  I expect this was probably seriously overpriced, and marketed towards small business buyers with more money than sense. Dentists, lawyers, etc, buying a PC for their office while shopping at the mall.
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  David

  7 months ago

  @Todd,
  You don't own a Mac, do you. You're still living in 1989. I've been using Mac for 5 years, and I run my law practice on Macs. I have yet to find hardware that's incompatible.
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