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  • Some Mac Pro support pages archived by Apple, will no longer be updated

    thyl engelhardtthyl engelhardt
    tallest skil said:
    lorin schultz said:
    That's not how I remember it.
    Ah, $2,000.

    Those guys fell victim to a marketing plot of Apple. ATI uses two trademarks for the graphic boards, "Radeon" and "FirePro". Technically, the two product lines differ in their firmware. The FirePro firmware allows the graphic boards to be used with specific high perfomance WINDOWS hardware drivers for some calculation-intense Windows programs. The graphic boards in the Mac Pro, according to my knowledge, do not allow using such Windows drivers.  I.e., technically, they are Radeon, not FirePro Cards. Notably, wouldn't be of much value for MacOSX users anyway to be able to run Windows drivers.

     Accordingly, a price comparison should be done with the Radeon cards, not the FirePro cards.

    Still, the Mac Pro was initially fairly priced, imho, at least when recognising two features:
    -that each Thunderbolt port costs about USD100, i.e this alone makes the Mac Pro USD600 more expensive
    -that it runs MacOSX, which could be considered to be a value worth several hundred dollars.

    But USD2000 cheaper? No.
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  • Gene Munster: Apple should buy Rivian after cancelling Apple Car

    thyl engelhardtthyl engelhardt
    That sounds like complete nonsense. To develop a car like the Rivian from scratch will cost about one billion dollars, maybe 1.5. All the rest of the rumored 10 billion dollars hence will have been been spent on the software development, which apparently still failed.

    Buying Rivian would give Apple nothing that could solve their evident problems with the project. 
    watto_cobra