Is the Mac Pro really that expensive?The answer, of course, is it depends on who you ask...
The new 2019 Mac Pro is but a few days into its lifecycle. Beyond the striking holes, the beautiful enclosure that lifts off like a second shot of unboxing euphoria and its partner-in-crime, the Pro Display XDR, one of the most distinctive features of the new Mac Pro is its price.
Before you even arrive at the Mac Pro's configuration page, it's already the most expensive base-model that Apple sells. Only the iMac Pro comes close with a starting price tag of $4,999. Rookie numbers in this bracket. Of course, when it comes to the Mac Pro, the party really starts when you begin stuffing more components inside the Mac Pro's glorious aluminum chassis. 28-core processor? Sure, that'll be $7,000. 1.5TB (terabytes) of RAM? $15,000. Wheels? $400. By the time you fully kit out a Mac Pro, the bill runs north of $53,000, which, by the standards of everyone outside of the 1% (or something) is a life-changing sum of money. That's a very nice...
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Is the Mac Pro really that expensive?
