Thread: Mac Pro Pricing
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2020-01-27, 07:51

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Originally Posted by Dr. Bobsky View Post
It does look like Apple priced the MacPro to take advantage of studios that aren't able or willing to switch over to custom built solutions. On paper the machines are not worth what they are being sold for, even with the high build quality.
It's gonna have extremely low volume no matter the pricing (well, I suppose a $1,199 Mac Pro might've had more volume, but that was never in the cards) because a tower computer just isn't something most people buy.

The real argument here is "Apple should replace the Mac mini with a machine whose internals are upgradeable", and it's been clear for a decade and a half that Apple just isn't into that. You want the "xMac", and Apple doesn't want to create it. (And there was clearly a time where they didn't even want to create any tower at all, no matter the price…)
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