Mac Pro Pricing

[Herb Sevush]

Don’t forget to add at least $1000 for Tblt to PCIe boxes for anyone that has raid controllers and i/o cards. Another hundred if you need external optical (I still have clients who demand DVD).

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Paul Dickin]

[Gary Huff] “If you’re going that low, you might as well get an iMac”
Hi
An iMac is fine for people with minimalist connectivity needs.
A 1080i/p edit suite doesn’t need sizzle-core power, but it still needs a raft of connected devices – video I/O, audio I/O, legacy I/O adapters, RAID boxes, backup boxes (disk or tape) and even maybe more than one Gig-E port for NAS and networking at the same time.
All that is compromised by an iMac’s two TB, one Gig-E limit.

Make a Mac Pro with specs just slightly faster than the top end iMac and that would be ALL a ton of edit suites would need: a 4 or 6 core Xeon with turbo top speed just better than the Haswell iMac will have, Two of the same Haswell iMac graphics sub-systems mounted by Apple into the Mac Pro internal cards, and a hard drive (or two BTO) from the new MacBook Air.

That would be MUCH BETTER for my edit-suite needs than an iMac…
Why should it cost any more than the iMac? The new Mac Pro case doesn’t look more costly to make than an iMac.

[Gary Huff]

[Paul Dickin] “Why should it cost any more than the iMac? The new Mac Pro case doesn’t look more costly to make than an iMac.”

It’s not the case, it’s what’s inside.

[Paul Dickin]

LOL
That’s what I said. Put an iMac’s bits inside….
Price it like the iMac.

[Gary Huff]

[Paul Dickin] “That’s what I said. Put an iMac’s bits inside….”

They aren’t going to do that. If you want cheap, get an iMac. If you want power, get a Mac Pro, and be prepared to pay for it.

[Gary Huff]

I should also point out that a 12-core 3.0Ghz, 32GB, 512GB SSD version of the previous Mac Pro model is $7800.

[Marcus Moore]

Exactly. Expensive things are expensive. This should not come as a surprise.

[Dan Stewart]

‘I should also point out that a 12-core 3.0Ghz, 32GB, 512GB SSD version of the previous Mac Pro model is $7800.’

Anyone care to price that as an equivalent Hackintosh box?

FWIW the tube seems like, as has been said:

12 core Xeon, 2x firepros with 3gb each..
Plus 32gb ram, 1tb Flash shop installed & with the traditional 100% Apple premium.

Plus $1000 3 way tbolt chassis for network, i/o & rockets etc & a Pegasus raid box to get bulk storage back up to internal speeds..

New 4k Cinema displays aside (but you know you’ll spring for one when you’re that deep in)

-hate to say it but unless it does the work of 2 $5k boxes I don’t think its likely I’ll get to use one of these until they’re 4 year old paperweights..

[Bobby Mosca]

I think the comparisons to the iMacs are at least a bit off. For one, Xeons vs Haswells. Second, dual GPUs vs just one. And finally, has no one noticed the iMacs are made with NOTEBOOK graphics? (Please correct me if that last one doesn’t matter, but I have hard time imagining that.)

[Gary Huff]

Anyone care to price that as an equivalent Hackintosh box?

$2400-ish for the processors, motherboard, twin 5770s, and 32GB ECC RAM.