“Perhaps more mysterious than the stealthy look of Apple’s upcoming Mac Pro desktop is its price tag, which has yet to be announced,” Josh Lowensohn reports for CNET.
“So how much will the machine — previous models of which have, for a decade, hovered around a $2,500 entry-level price tag — cost when it arrives later this year?” Lowensohn reports. CNET reached out to IHS iSuppli to find out, and the answer is not so simple.”
“Based on some rough estimates of comparable hardware, components, and labor, just the raw cost of the machine could total $2,800, the firm said,” Lowensohn reports. “That’s $300 more than the price Apple sells its existing, entry-level model for. Ramp it up with a higher-end processor, more SSD storage and RAM, and that could climb to $4,755. None of this, by the way, is taking into account the extra cost that goes on top, where Apple makes any profit.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Just a guess: Starts at US$2,999.
Anything less would be a bonus and anything more (within reason) is still doable on a relatively low volume, niche Mac such as this.
Selling millions of Mac Pros is absolutely not the main goal for Apple. Apple needs to have an high end machine for high end users. These are only a few. But whatever Apple product is used at such a high level gives Apple a BIG IMAGE of its skill. This does have an effect on sales over all other Apple products by strengthening its trend value.
Anyone mention the interesting synergy between the new Pro and Apple’s proposed campus? What, if anything, can be read into that curious coincidence?
New Pro and curious synergistic coincidence with proposed campus, anyone see signs for something to come there?
It’s just like buying a Rolls Royce.
If you ask the salesman how much it costs?
They know you can’t afford it! lol
Except Rolls Royces aren’t purchased by people who NEED then for their work but, rather, by the tragically ostentatious.
need “them”
Cue the announcer:
“The Mac mini Pro Black Trashcan Edition Home Theater PC™ will be the most expensive of the Mac mini line. Now featuring even more of the overpriced and little supported ThunderDud technology for even less choice at higher cost. Combining this with the total lack of internal storage and graphics card lock in, you can be assured of even faster planned obsolescence for your formerly Pro grade software like iMovie Pro Studio HD Vista Edition. Of course, formerly available software like Soundtrack is completely unsupported so that you can use Garage Band for your projects. Starting at only $4,999, this Texas Teabagger edition Mac is the biggest little thing out of Texas since Dell.”
Tell Tim to shove it where the sun does not shine.
if you were say a movie or tv editor and you had 6 employees editing and rendering effects at say 60 dollars an hour you balance how much spinning beach balls and crawling status bars cost you and fork up for the fastest hardware you can get
BESIDES its a tax deduction for a company . a private artist who wants one has to dig deep like i did for my epson 10,000 scanner and my 7600 large format printer.
the difference between the boys is the price of their toys !
Gosh, I remember buying a Mac II FX in the 1990 (I think) and I seem to recall the price was somewhere around $11,000.
Given the cost of inflation the prices talked above versus power mean the new MacPro will be a steal.
From the Apple US store today:
Mac Pro (older aluminum rectangular case)
– 2 x 3.06 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon
– 64 GB (8×8) RAM
– 1 x 512 GB solid state drive
– 2 x ATI Radeon 5770 GPU
– 1 x Superdrive
– no other options
$8999
Admittedly, several hundred dollars of this is Apple’s surcharge for RAM, but otherwise this machine is as close to the performance of the all-new cylindrical Mac Pro as you can get.
The difference with the old Machine, of course, is that you can still add more: an additional Superdrive, 3 more internal SATA drives, fiber channel, PCI cards, and so forth to achieve your $10k machine. If Apple drops the price of the new Mac Pro to a lower level — which it should — then it will be 3rd party manufacturers making $ thousands off of drive & PCI card options. It appears Apple wants to get out of customizing computers, and all the profits thereof.
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All the more reason to build a hackintosh for 1200 bucks.
It will be expensive for sure but good.
It looks great! I’m sure many ppl will opt for it especially for gamers and power graphic users. It will spur up the PC industry as the PC makers will also try to make beautiful and elegant device like Apple too. Microsoft should also worry this time.
I’m going to say entry level at $3,500. That’s low enough to entice those on the fence, but realistic for those of us already using macs professionally. Max system around 10K. Mac is not stupid. They are not going to make a new system that their customer base cannot afford. They will, however, make it upgradable enough for their heavy hitters to spend some serious coin.
I think most people would be surprised just how many mac pro’s there are out there running Windows apps. If you’re doing heavy video, film work, 3D rendering, architectural design or large scale cad work then the mac pro’s have long been a popular choice.
If you run a boutique design shop, doing contract design work having a load of mac pro’s is a simple way to differentiate yourself from the windoze PC based competition. Just take a look around Soho studios to see how this works in the film/special effects industry.
I hope they price them sanely, if they do I’ll be retiring my old quad core Windows box.
Mac’s and PC’s are extensions of their users. If the end results of a user’s computing efforts results in better products, more business, greater efficiency or just more creativity, does it really matter which platform you use? I started out with a PC in 1985 writing in MS-DOS. I switched to Mac in 2005 & upgraded to the Mac Pro Intel in 2010. As a professional photographer & photojournalist I found Mac to be more reliable but there were times when certain PC-based software programs suited my needs. I rarely touch my PC anymore but I have colleagues that swear by the PC & will never go Mac.
I know I will be getting the new Mac Pro not because I need it but because I can afford it and I want it. That’s the American way. PC lovers & Windows 8 lovers will stick with what works for them and that’s the way it ought to be. Arguing about stuff we buy but don’t make seems to be a waste of time.