New Mac Pro 12 core

12-core starting at $4999.

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Overall though, the prices have come down, the 8 core is cheaper than the previous gen. But I guess we're at the mercy of core as usual.
 
damn... you'll need to take out a loan! why can't apple introduce a midrange without xeons and ecc ram? would be affordable for some people at least.
 
assagai said:
I guess they figure the imacs are the midrange.
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Yeah I figured that, but there are those who would like the easy access to parts and upgrades the mac pro offers. If the screen fails on the imac(rare I know) you need to fork out.
 
It's actually the bargain of the century if you consider the RAM's rated speed. ;)
The integrated memory controller, along with fast DDR3 ECC SDRAM at either 1066GHz or 1333GHz,
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Whats the difference between this and normal PC's besides the screen, case and OS?

I mean, its not like I cant get the same spec hardware anywhere else.
 
I'd love to see a true price comparison between the mac pro and a custom built machine with the same specs.
 
Dual socket motherboards and Xeon chips are quite expensive. The Dual socket Mac Pro's are comparable in price to other workstations from Dell etc.

The Single-socket Mac Pro's are quite a rip-off though compared to a custom Quad core i7 PC. Of course you get excellent build quality, cool little drawers for your hard drives, lots of PCI-E slots, 1 kW PSU, very quiet operation and Mac OS X so it's worth it for the Pro market - people who spend R20-R40k on Software anyway.
 
Yeah would like to see actual numbers though, just curious cos I'm seriously considering the 12 core.
 
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