Your comment is rather "childish" without offering suggestions for what you would change and why.
How about more NVidia cards, for starters.
By the way, I was watching my GPU temps a few days ago and noticed that ATI (I verified that it WAS ATI and not Apple) has made the fans on the X1900 INCREDIBLY slow to keep (by default) noise down. The only problem is, obviously, now the computer is prone to overheating if the ambient room temp isn't 72. Luckily I found a way to manually set fan speeds to avoid GPU life reduction, but now the fan is obnoxiously loud whenever I actually use the GPU for anything.
ATI did the same thing with the 9800's and a lot of people's cards self-destructed and the fan melted and fell off.
NVidia cards have better cooling, cost less (usually), and are WAY better at OpenGL, so it's strange to see why Apple's best card for the Mac Pro (discounting the useless Quadro) is an ATI.
There are 3rd party drivers that can get many NVidia cards (with PC BIOS!) running pretty well on the Mac Pro under OS X. There's no reason Apple couldn't rewrite and improve those drivers and allow for more video selection.... Oh, but then Apple's most expensive Add-On would have competition! Can't have that!
There prices are stilll cheap...I looked on Dells site...a 2 Dual Core 2.66Ghz Chips( Same number of cores as the 2.66Gh Mac Pro) for 3078.
Find me a PC with the same specs as the Mac Pro for cheaper! Not one people built themselves, those types of computer are always cheaper.
I used to build computers for a living. When the Mac Pro came out, the 2.66 standard config was actually CHEAPER than a homebuilt with the same parts (I looked it up). Now that is not the case.
Apple should have at least put in more RAM or a larger HD. Keeping the same config for this long is insulting.
It's possible they're waiting for WWDC to introduce more changes to the product line, but that's another 2 months.
You know, after the announcement I went over to Dell.com and specced out the same machine...
It came out to over $5000. With a considerably weaker video card and only 2.66 GHz, I might add.
Stop complaining.
O'RLY? Well that's interesting, I guess somehow, because Dell is totally retarded on high-end stuff, I'm supposed to ignore what Apple is doing (or
not doing)?
I don't care if Dell charges a million dollars for an 8 core machine, or ships the case full of flapjacks. It doesn't affect me because I'm not buying from them.
I find it amazing that people use relativism to argue: "Hey, don't complain about high prices from Apple. If you were a Dell user, Michael Dell would probably break into your house and shoot you in the face! Stop complaining!"
Do you have any idea how little I care about what Dell does? Am I supposed to be scared into buying a Mac because Dell sucks butt through a hose? That's a stupid argument when talking about my personal decisions. Dell may be Apple's top competitor, but they have nothing to do with me or my choices.
Apple isn't competing with just Dell for my business (or the business of my friend who is currently in the process of abandoning the MP idea). Apple has to compete against many different options, ESPECIALLY on the high end products, where there's enough money to buy your way around certain obstacles.
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I will have to dig for it, but I said a long time ago that Quad core chips would not drop the price of the duals.
Quad is not meant to replace dual by any means. It will be another 2 years before quad is a common place. Quad chips are a premium part. It is your fault that you friend has waited this long, instead of assuming Apple would drop the prices you should have analyzed the market.
I said the same thing, just about! I have looked at the market, and I was merely looking for a $100-200 price drop or better standard config. I was envisioning either a $2500 3.0x4 model or a $2200 2.66x4 model. Or maybe a BluRay reader + Superdrive.
Prices HAVE gone down on those components by more than $200. With Apple's bulk pricing, the profit margins on the Mac Pros are $200-300 higher on these models than when they first came out.
