DROOL!

[JBavousett]

Ok, so apple is selling dual quad core workstations now...I maxed one out to see the cost.

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Specifications

Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16GB (8 x 2GB)
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
750GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
Two 16x SuperDrives
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card
Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple wireless Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
Mac OS X - U.S. English
Aperture 1.5 preinstalled
AppleCare Protection Plan for Mac Pro/Power Mac (w/or w/o Display) - Auto-enroll

So...anyone need a kidney or a lung? I also have a fairly healthy liver if anyone needs part of it.

 

[Kvothe]

I took a look at those as soon as they were announced... insane the amount of power they are packing in there...

At least they are willing to throw in some free shipping.

 

[JBavousett]

At least they are willing to throw in some free shipping.

Damn straight. I paid nearly $3000 for my m1710, and Dell charged me for the shipping.


Oh well. I needed it to play World of Warcraft...until I installed Vista. Grumble grumble grumble. Now no games are playable. Time to go back to MCE2005.

 

[ReaperofDreams]

Damn straight. I paid nearly $3000 for my m1710, and Dell charged me for the shipping.


Oh well. I needed it to play World of Warcraft...until I installed Vista. Grumble grumble grumble. Now no games are playable. Time to go back to MCE2005.

I think it was the extra $14,000 that caused apple decide to give free shipping

 

[vraa]

17,000$
If you're ADC = 20% off

So, 10% is 1700 right?

So we're looking at final price of 13,600$

Madness. Absolute madness.

 

[firewolf]

I'd rather have the new car.

 

[JBavousett]

Of course that is the total max cost, if you drop a few of the HDD's, the 30" LCD's, the massive Vid card, and maybe 12gb of the ram off...It's still way to expensive...but EIGHT CORES!

 

[michaLcoughliN]

I'd rather have the new car.

or a down payment for a house.

 

[Xilikon]

or a down payment for a house.

Or finish the lawn in my case, being a owner of a new house built last year.

 

[ND40oz]

Seems really high in price, you could get a Precision 690 for considerably less with almost the same specs, except you'd have the 5355s instead of 5365s. Still, having a box cranking out 4k a day is nice.

 

[molson3530]

I really want to get one of these. With my discount, I can get a 3ghz dual quad with 4gb ram for under $5k. It is overkill for what I do, but so what! Imagine the points.

 

[natermeister]

I'm putting money back for a Mac Pro to do photo editing and perhaps video work, but most likely just the former.

I don't think I'll have the kind of money they're asking for a dual quad box. Even if I get it stripped to the bone and add my own ram and hard drives, it's still too much. I think I'll end up with either a dual 2.66 or dual 3.0GHz box. Considering that Photoshop generally favors speed over number of cores, I should be ok. Of course, the dual quad has the same clock speed as the top dual core model...