The latest Apple Mac Pro is now available at a price of US$6,000 for the base version, which, depending on the options you choose to add on, could then go all the way up over $50,000, making it the single most expensive Mac ever made.
Yep, we are talking about a desktop computer and not the latest version of Tesla Model 3. For that price, you could hook a pricey PC to the Tesla battery with an adaptor, and have a drive that you could drive around in luxury.
So what makes the Mac Pro so expensive? Nothing that we can figure out; unless perhaps, since money is no problem, you now have a new toy to indulge in and the gloating rights that go with it.
Let us take a look at how the price of a basic Mac Pro soon begins to go way north. A base version of Mac Pro comes with 32GB of RAM, an octa-core Intel Xeon CPU, Radeon Pro 580X graphics, and a 256GB SSD, for a relatively modest $5,999.
You could then upgrade the base version with a 2.5GHz Intel Xeon W with 28 cores, 56 threads, and Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz, at an additional $7,000; thrown in a 1.5TB of 2933MHz RAM, broken down into 12 128GB user-replaceable slot for a further $25,000. Adding 4TB of SSD storage, split across two 2TB SSDs, along with two AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics card modules, each with two GPUs inside for a total of four graphics cards, each with 32GB of dedicated RAM, which will together set you back by $12,200
Add an Afterburner accelerator card for $2,000; four wheels to move your Mac around for $400, and, while the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse are courtesy of Apple, you will need to add an extra $50 for the Magic Trackpad. Add that all up and you get to the magic eye-watering figure of close to $53,000.
Have more money to burn, why not throw in one of Apple’s latest Pro Display XDR monitors. The fancier matte ‘nano-texture’ glass option will cost you the same as the base version of the Mac Pro at $5,999. Oh and unless you plan to prop the monitor on the wall, you will need a stand, which is sold separately for $999. That comes to a grand total of $59,597 for a top-of-the-line Mac Pro.
But remember, your top specs Mac could be trumped by your neighbor, if he or she opts to go for the multiple monitor option, which would allow the nasty neighbor to link together a maximum of eight monitors, which the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo GPU unit allows, for a paltry total of $101,500.
Did I hear someone just order a Porsche Boxster GTS?