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  • Mac Pro's lessons learned will trickle down to all 'Pro' products, says project lead

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    sflocal said:

    cynegils said:
    Lets hope that one of those lessons is not "Pricing will start at cost X eleventybillion!"
    Stop being so overdramatic.  The Mac Pro is priced similarly to WinTel counterparts of EXACT specs and the monitor is far cheaper than the competitors reference-level monitors.  Funny how you folks don't complain about the prices of those monitors.
    Stop being so dismissive. MOST people (me included) wanted an expensive, but modular desktop Mac priced in the "enthusiast" range ($3,000+ ish). Very few people were itching to START spending $6,000 on a machine that will literally be used only by computer scientists and people who work at Pixar. And that's not even to mention the $6,000 monitor.

    Apple is coming out of the gate all cocky like they did last time with the "trash can" Mac (Can't innovate my ass!) and are going to be scratching their heads when the only people who buy these things are million dollar YouTubers and people who work at CERN.

    Despite how much we like Apple products, most of us don't want to spend $2,000+ on a desktop machine with all components glued to the back of a (very nice) monitor, and we don't want to spend $6,000 on a machine to play video games on, do some video editing, and run a few VMs at home.

    We find ourselves in the unique position of wanting to throw thousands of dollars at a company and them adamantly refusing to take it unless we allow them to essentially give us a $3,000 iPad or a $6,000 desktop PC.

    They refuse to give us what we actually want and it's frustrating. They know what we want, but don't want to make it.

    And we don't complain about those monitors because we don't want them and never have. We don't care how "fair" the price is. We wanted a cheaper entry point with the ability to upgrade down the road because most of us probably wouldn't be upgrading anyway but having options is nice. You have 0 upgrade options with an iMac or Mini besides "get another one".
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