More like $5k for me, and it's a business expense I expect to recoup in short order and for which I've been saving for nearly a year.
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Apple Store is down for Mac Pro orders...What's everyone getting?
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More like $5k for me, and it's a business expense I expect to recoup in short order and for which I've been saving for nearly a year.
Instead of asking how other people can have $6,000+ for a new tool.
Ask yourself what you can do, to get that kind of money for a new computer.
When you find the answer you will no longer wonder
you'd be surprised how much easier it is to set money aside for a computer when you have a two year lead time
spending all day on the computer and never going out
even if the computer lasts a year thats 365 potential days/nights of not going out which is probably like $100 a time and will soon pay for itself
8-core, D700, 1TB, 16GB ram for me. Ordered a couple of minutes after the UK store came back online and despatched in January.
Anyone else from the UK hoping to be in the first batch of BTOs to reach our shores?
Anyone else from the UK hoping to be in the first batch of BTOs to reach our shores?
Because I use the machine for my business, and $6,000+ is relatively light, when you figure that this machine will pay for itself within a month of getting it?
Putting it in context: I bought my current 2,1 Mac Pro in early '08 for nearly the same I just spent on the nMP somewhere in the area of $6k. I've been using it day-in, day-out for five+ years without nearly a single hitch. I've invested some money in internal drives and I upgraded the video card.
Other than that, this has been my single biggest business expense in years. My current machine paid itself off within the first few months of owning it, and has paid for itself hundreds of times over.
So, it is a *pro* machine. Anyone can and should buy it if they can afford it, but all professionals set aside money for new tools. The guy that redid our bathroom had a set of expensive gear drills and hydraulic hammers and saws that I wouldn't ever afford, but he makes his living off of that stuff and therefore needs to afford it.
Bang on! It also makes me wonder about the investment a independent trucker needs to make on a big diesel truck or farmers need to make in equipment. Without the proper tools to do the job at hand would be pure toil!
No kidding. Even going to smaller scales: have you seen what Snap-On tools cost? Just the cabinet can be in the vicinity of $20k.
See, farming equipment isn't 'sexy' so nobody questions that stuff. I ran into this a few years back with the reactions of friends and family members to my (then relatively new) company dropping $30K on a high-end camera system. I pointed out to them that if I owned a plumbing company and dropped $30K on a couple of lightly used panel vans nobody would consider that an extravagant expense. Meanwhile, the camera gear was being being purchased primarily to rent out, so it actually generated revenue even more directly than a van does for a plumber.
This new Mac Pro is a ridiculously practical tool for me... and having tried both the Windows and Hackintosh routes over the last couple of years as Apple wasn't delivering, I can safely say the disadvantages that come with cheaper options are not worth the savings.
But I guess whenever someone buys 'cool' gear, there's a tendency to suspect maybe they're just buying it because it's cool.
Hey speak for yourself I have seen some dead sexy combines in my time
Agreed. I think my tractor is pretty sexy.
been sitting on my 1,1 MacPro for 7 years...
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Hey speak for yourself I have seen some dead sexy combines in my time
That big yellow beast rolling over a hill ripe with wheat for the first time...
If they are your tools, they are sexy to ya...
Went with the 6 Core
I've been working off my 2006 Mac Pro for far too long. Still works great but sluggish and I can't install the latest OS or some Adobe suite programs. I'm an editor, illustrator, and motion graphics artist/animator. I waffled for a while on the 27" iMac but ultimately I wanted something a little more future proof and less hassle than a hackintosh. Something I could easily edit 4K footage on in the next year or two. Here's my config, too bad it's not arriving until Feb.
3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
32GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC - 4X8GB
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
Dual AMD FirePro D700-6GB VRAM
I also ordered the PROMISE Pegasus2 R4 8TB Raid system for all my projects. At least the Feb timeline will give me some time to transfer all my files to the Pegasus.
After taxes and a decent corporate discount from my dayjob the damage was $6,569.35
I think I'm still in shock, but it's a good investment and I'll easily make that back in a few months.
I've been working off my 2006 Mac Pro for far too long. Still works great but sluggish and I can't install the latest OS or some Adobe suite programs. I'm an editor, illustrator, and motion graphics artist/animator. I waffled for a while on the 27" iMac but ultimately I wanted something a little more future proof and less hassle than a hackintosh. Something I could easily edit 4K footage on in the next year or two. Here's my config, too bad it's not arriving until Feb.
3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
32GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC - 4X8GB
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
Dual AMD FirePro D700-6GB VRAM
I also ordered the PROMISE Pegasus2 R4 8TB Raid system for all my projects. At least the Feb timeline will give me some time to transfer all my files to the Pegasus.
After taxes and a decent corporate discount from my dayjob the damage was $6,569.35
I think I'm still in shock, but it's a good investment and I'll easily make that back in a few months.
Yup, I ordered 4-core, D300, 1TB and 16GB. My order confirmation from the UK store is dated 9.00am. When I checked the store 8.30am - 8.40am ish, it was still down.
Hopefully the estimate of January is fairly early Jan, but given that estimates are now Feb, it was always probably 20th Jan onwards, all along.
how do you feel spending the same on that model as the yanks could spend on a near high end model
btw what are you going to be using it for? did you go for the quad core because of cost or you just had no need for more cores?
I don't mind really... it suits what I do. The 1TB SSD was a must, spending £800 more on the 6-core and D500 was more than I wanted to spend. Hopefully they will be upgradeable in 2 - 3 years time.
EDIT: I wish VAT was back at 15% though!
Still running a 2001 G4 Quicksilver with System 9 here. Also, have Macs IIsi, IIci, LC & 512K (classic Mac) fully functional as well as Apple IIe from '78.
Good stuff. Be interesting to see whether Apple manufacture in batches of similar spec (as seemed to be the case when the 15" rMBP launched) or according to time of order (on the basis that it's easy to assemble by hand from racks of pre-prepared GPU and CPU daughter boards, SSD and RAM sticks). Maybe we'll be shipment buddies.
Hoping we're not going to be waiting around all January, but I agree it's possible! My order confirmation times at 8.46.
Yeah, I was wondering this as well. Based on what people have posted here I think my BTO config is one of the most common (6/32/512/D500) so I wondered whether that version would rate a run of its own. Guess we'll never really know.
Not sure exactly when it came back up here in the UK (My Confirmation is timed 8:42) but am sure it was before 8.30am when I hit the buy button (And fairly sure it was within a couple of mins of the store being up).
6Core, 16Gb, 512Gb, D700s, £3375.60 (At least the Edu Discount almost balances out the 20% VAT!)
I trade equity derivatives(CBOE), I live below my means. I do not have a mortgage on my primary home, My Jeep and car paid for (I own it outright, second home in 5 years its paid for)
Bottom line, live below your means, invest your money, don't be an idiot. besides its a business expense.
They are probably fully automated when each assembly stage has multiple alternate component feeds so when you MP gets to the memory stage a 32 BG is selected. They may have multiple lines with each specializing in a subset of the full range of 144 possibilities. This way everything is one run and the standard models are simply the default setting.
In simpler times without full automation and insertion machines that only had a single feed you'd have min-runs for every configuration. At some point in the day they'd look at the orders in hand and say, "OK we have 534 orders for hex's with 32 MB and everything else standard so lets run off 600 units that way." The amount of excess would depend on warehouse capacity and the expected rate of requests for that configuration. At the end of that run, it's "OK w had 391 orders for hex's with 32 MB and 512 SSD so lets run of 450 of those." Next its 16 MB and 512 SSD. And they keep swapping one element at a time until they've run through each configuration. When you get back to the basic configuration you run for inventory until there are enough orders on hand to justify another BTO cycle.
I've made the order today the estimate delivery is to February:
Com a seguinte configuração:
• 6-core a 3,5 GHz com 12 MB de cache L3
• 12 GB (3 x 4 GB) de DDR3 ECC a 1866 MHz
• 512 GB de armazenamento flash com base em PCIe
• Duas GPU AMD FirePro D500 com 3 GB de VRAM GDDR5 cada uma
• Manual do Utilizador (Português)
• Kit de acessórios
My Apple rep says it's the first order to my country.
Now let's wait. and don't think to much about it.