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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"
Elijah M
· 1 year ago
The rebates should bring it down to ยข26,573.
Gary McGath
· 1 year ago
That ad says "Our most powerful computer ever," not "THE most powerful computer ever."
David
· 1 year ago
Man...
I miss my Commie 64 now. I miss having to use multiple 5" floppies to run a game.
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.
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.
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."
Andrew
· 1 year ago
Geez, even in a Tandy thread some brainwashed MS fanboi has to knock Macs. Get a life.
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.
Vaius
· 8 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.
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.
Ian Blincoe
· 1 year ago
8499*(1.062044)^19=26,673 isn't inflation like 3.25%?
bob
· 4 months ago
no its 325% the number is multiplyed by 3.25
Aaron
· 1 year ago
@Todd: Now Vista users are the ones complaining that none of their hardware works and there aren't any drivers.
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?
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.
David
· 11 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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"Subtotal Please note that your subtotal does not include sales tax or rebates. $26,673.00"
I miss my Commie 64 now. I miss having to use multiple 5" floppies to run a game.
/Apple makes way too much on the "upgrades" from their standard configurations.
"The LISP machine will never require more than 256K of memory."
And ever since 2005, Macs have been able to run Windows on Mac. So, your "nobody makes the drivers" statement is invalid.
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.
isn't inflation like 3.25%?
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?
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.
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.