a CPU, and GPU upgrade, afterburner card and additional 744GB @ $2,000?
Hmm that sounds reasonable. lets see!
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Hmm that sounds reasonable. lets see!
I'd expect the SSD pricing to be similar to existing Macs with T2 based SSD storage. Maybe not exactly the same because we don't know the full details of how the storage works - the imagery gives the impression it's slotted, not soldered. Anyway, 256 to 1TB in the 2018 Mini is $400.
The tray price on the 12 core W-3235 is about $650 more than the 8-core W-3223, but historically Apple has a pretty reasonable markup on cpu upgrades so if that is less than a $1k upgrade I'll be shocked, and I'd more likely expect that $2K to get you just the CPU and SSD upgrade.
I have no clue about the GPUs (I have no special use for it besides driving some basic 4k displays) but the only guesses at VegaII pricing I could find suggested those cards (and I have to assume they meant the dual card) would rival the base price of the Mac Pro itself. Which just sounds ****ing crazy to me - the same article suggested the Quadro RTX is the direct competition here, and they seem to vary from 1K to 5.5K (just searching quickly on amazon for rough retail pricing).
apple should of had Mac os Server for VM's that was OK to run on NON APPLE HARDWARE.
To be fair, AppleCare for Enterprise is handled by IBM and they do know Enterprise Support. We had ACE in my last shop for our MBPs (used by our devs) and we had access to same-day on-site servicing and such as we did with our Dell products (often the same tech handled both).
In other countries (looking at you .. UK), it's not handled by IBM and definitely not same day for a failed keyboard on a MBP.
Apple has been already shipping soldered and slotted SSD capacities at the same price. The iMac Pro already has the basic system that the Mac Pro is going to use. Same T2 chip. Same NAND daughter cards (maybe with a new color scheme but extremely likely same implementation.).
Difference in $/TB pricing between MBP 16" and iMac Pro ? Zero. $400/TB at the sub 2TB range and a modestly better $300/TB up in the upper half. Mac Pro is probably getting he same consistency model.
[ The soldered is probably cheaper for Apple very short term, but the long term board repair costs are higher. iMac Pro and Mac Pro ...... really , really , do not want to replace board overhead. )
Probably $400 from the 256GB to jump to the 1TB. That would leave it pretty far south of $2K. If want to jump to 2TB then yeah.
Compare the Vega II with Quadro RTX it's much like compare an F35 with an mig 21.
The Vega II just matches the RTX2060S performance (a 400$ card) but offers 4x ram, closest pricing speculation could bring the Radeon VII (a 700$ card) as the Vega II it's basically the same card with twice RAM (non ecc) on the other extreme the Radeon instinct mi50 marches Vega II ram (but ECC) with Server grade components (& warranty) sells now by less than 2000$, having this a Vega II should sell among 700-2000$ but much closer to 700 than 2000, I bet it will cost to upgrade from rx580 to single Vega II about 600-800$ and 1600 for the first Vega ii Duo and 2800 for dual Vega II duo cartridges.
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I bet apple's 6000$ Mac will be the basic non bto model already including a basic usable configuration as 8 core CPU and a Vega ii GPU with 512 GB SSD and 32gb ram, so basically I estimated 1000$ for the afterburner card, 600$ for 4 extra CPU cores and 400$ for 512 extra gb of storage.
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The calendar invite Apple attached in the announcement email is set for 9am PST, so read into that what you will.
Some folks have said the "save the date" ical link marks a 9:00 am PST (to 11:00 or noon ?) block of time. [ That's 5:00 pm GMT. ] The 3:00 am thing was a bad idea. Doubtful they are going back there.
if they'd want the Hollywood purchase managers sitting at their desk at work that would make sense. (and it isn't crazy late in Europe). ... big planet can't make everyone happy. [ and if there are 3rd parties who have tested "goodies" ready to go on their updated websites ... 9:00 am PST probably works better too. ]
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Hey, ... folks on the East Coast can get some work done before playing "whack a buy" button at lunchtime.
Everyone asks Apple to make the same mistake that nearly killed them years ago, and acts surprised when they don't do that.
Assuming it's going up at 9AM Pacific. They've already got a new splash page for the "pro" stuff but no buy links yet. https://www.apple.com/mac/
Since they started the assembly line some weeks/months ago and presumably have boxed inventory, is it reasonable to assume the first ones built will come with Mojave?
What they may lose in profit per unit, they make up for in volume of units sold.
Such a "Mac Pro Junior" machine would easily outsell the top of line 2019 Mac Pro.
They'd be at least as profitable as equivalent Dell, HP or Lenova desktop machines manage to be.
Not to mention: an extra $100 or $200 Apple Tax tacked on.
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I'm not sure any Macs have ever shipped from Apple.com on release with an older MacOS than current.
Apple was pretty much a different company back when the clones were out. The Mac is such a small percentage of Apples revenue now that it could completely go away and not even scratch the surface of total profits. If they did license MacOS out, I think they would be very strict on the requirements and wouldn’t just sell it outright like Windows. I think Dell has said in the past that they would love to offer MacOS as an OS option, I can’t remember where I read that.
Given Michael Dell's previous comments about Apple, I find that somewhat hard to believe. But maybe they're just sick of being a Microsoft lackey.
When Michael Dell said what he said, Apple was on the verge of going under. I don’t think anyone expected for Apple to make the comeback they did when Steve Jobs came back.
No. Even more so when the current Tech Specs says Catalina ( macOS 10.15). During the summer it said Mojave but that was merely a facade placeholder. When Apple shipped 10.15 the page changed.
What probably have for the very early boxes is that initial really flakey 10.15.0 version. 10.15.1 didnt' come until Oct 29 2019 (which probably is after the production ramp started. ) . Hopefully those got shipped to beta testers , internal Apple use , or are lined up for store demo units . (i.e., someone who will fix it and won't mind. ) [ In the pre-ramp in September it would have been beta Catalina. ]
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