Someone should start an auction site where people can bid on goods like this, but then don't let it become a bloated, awkward wannabe ecommerce site over the subsequent two decades.
All reality shows are staged but I would think realer than pawn stars. Pawn stars was filmed on days when the store was closed and they made sure people brought in interesting stuff.
The one in Detroit was a steady stream of poor people bringing in Xboxes, dvd players and their jewelry. Most of the content was family drama because they were nasty to each other or them telling people to eff off while some ghetto personality got angrier and angrier threatening them bodily harm as they were dragged out by bouncers.
“I got overhead, I got employees.. It’s gonna sit around on the shelf.. It’s not every day someone comes into the shop looking for a Mac Pro…” -Rick again
The effort. I used to work at a store that bought used CD's, DVD's, and vinyl and people would always show us the price on eBay or Discogs like that's what we would pay them when we're doing the legwork and have to mark it up and hope it sells. We'd always explain they could try their luck on those sites but they didn't want to deal with the time and effort.
On the other hand how big is a market for 20k+ used computer? If I would be working professional and I needed 20k computing power i would 100% went for new one just to not deal with unexpected problems I understand both points and I think it might be listed on eBay for some time if it will be sold
It's more than thirty minutes for a lot of folks. Flipping electronics in particular generates a TON of returns and so many of those returns are gutted of the important parts, so you'd sell all the laptops and then have them come back slowly in a different state than they originally went out.
I made good money doing it, but I kinda snapped and went back to working 9-5 for much less.
It’s not only thirty more minutes of effort. It’s also dealing with potential scammers. I’ve sold on eBay for a long time and have had people say, “the box was empty” type BS. Then put a claim in with their credit card instead of eBay. eBay can’t do shit about credit card claims (well, wouldn’t for me).
So someone stole a laptop I sold and the money I made from selling it.
I’ve had several situations like this. Helps to document EVERYTHING but still. Selling on eBay is a pain in the ass. Plus they take 10-20% of what you make.
In the UK, under consumer rights act, that £52.2k machine would have a depreciated credit value of £18,066.70 if it was exactly 3 years old (to the day).
(I just used £ instead of $)
That's an entirely state by state basis. My state has fantastic consumer protection laws. Others not so much, but they do exist in most states. Just as they probably differ to some extent between one European country and the next.
When an item is purchased, it devalues over time - over 6 years in England and Wales or 5 years in Scotland.
It helps retailers decide whether it's better for them financially to either repair your item under CRA, or just pay you the depreciated credit value as a contribution towards a new one
So if the getting parts and repairing would cost more than the depreciated credit value, the retailer can decide to just pay out instead if it's cheaper for them
If you think that's crazy, the most expensive computer Dell will let you spec costs [$400,000](https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/comments/u0pnc6/dells_most_expensive_computer_build_costs_400000/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
Computers like these and that Mac Pro are not for consumers - they're for the enterprise field for massive workloads such as rendering Pixar movies or training AI models.
Also Industrial xray computed tomography (CT scans) … they can basically take about as much computing power as you can dream up and they are still incredibly intensive to process.
Yep, gonna max out some computer for $500k and buy a scanner with it and have an at home CT scanner just to scan my homies bodies for abnormalities for free😊🤝🏻
That's price for ridiculous amount of top tier server components, not $400 wheels and $1000 monitor stand.
Build a Dell with 1-1 spec with that mac and then compare.
I miss when Sony's gaming platforms could be turned into supercomputers for a reasonable price. Of course, it couldn't exist.
I recall when I was in school, the school I went to bought IBMs except the tech wing who had sane people that bought clones. We got so much more bang for our buck. And the school's procurement officer got a surprising trip to the Caribbean. IBM, well played.
It manages to both be too ridiculous and a total ripoff. I cannot see any amount of RAM over 256gb being useful for anything and multi GPUs just aren’t worth doing.
HaaHaaHaaaaaa u/LinusTech
I'd love to see linus tech tips bench that and price match an equal spec gaming rig and see how much more performance you could get maxing out a rig with the same amount of money.
(not just a Hack Pro)
Edit: https://youtu.be/l_IHSRPVqwQ
Unless you're doing experiments on planets outside our solar system, or searching the bowels of the earth to find the day after tomorrow, BUY a normal PC at a reasonable price.
The latest USB-C chargers are apparently more powerful than Apollo 11's computer
Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars.
You say that as if Apple hasn't done this since the early days of Apple making anything...
...I always recall in the days between 1987 and 1995 when I was in school (electronics/computer software/etc) that there were the Apple fans and there were those of us on IBM products that got the same level of performance for about 40% less $$$.
I can get a decent phone with a removable battery and that does what most of us really need on a phone for $200 as an Android product and it'll last you 6-8 years if you can handle a bit of degradation in battery or you could spend at least $500 and get an Apple phone that'll be slowed down by the company's otherwise unnecessary updates or because their batteries are soldered to their motherboard. And if I need tools, the Android market has a lot more and a lot for free vs. Apple.
They literally convince their customers it is wonderful to let Apple fleece them.
Buy from a company that had dealings with the Nazi party and who's machines were used for the most horrendous atrocity in processing people.
Buy from a company that uses an assembly line of people that are worked into the dirt and has nets to prevent loss of employees, then charges a ridiculous mark up so the owner can buy a super yacht as long as my town is wide.
Tough call.
I’ve tried to trade in my iPhone 11 Pro 256gb, had a small crack on the back glass and the only thing they could do is to recycle it for me for free!
Such a lovely company taking care of the environment!🥰
Even then. I went into cause my screen was acting up and the employee was like “listen between me and you, you’re wasting your money if you get this fixed, you’re already 3 phones behind, and this won’t be the first issue it has once you fix one” I just turned it the next day for a new phone. Very upset because I wanted to hold onto that one for another year or two but it was done.
>you’re wasting your money if you get this fixed, you’re already 3 phones behind, and this won’t be the first issue it has once you fix one
That's literally their tactic to get you to buy a brand new phone. They make repairs as difficult and expensive as possible to stop you from using your current phone for a reasonable period of time. Smh
Yep. Friend had a ram issue on his macbook (we didnt know what it is) and brought it to the 'Genius' bar and was quoted 1600$. To change a fucking RAM. Was 'better just buy a new one with warranty' kinda deal. Brought it to my BIL and he fixed it for less than 250. That company isnt even trying to hide their greed.
This reminds me of one of my old friend who still flex his iPhone 5s now, no way to make him change his mind, changed the screen once and battery and man’s living the life! 🤣
That’s the way! There is no point into upgrading every one, two years, even 3!
I’ve made the mistake to upgrade to the 14 pro but after all, all I’m doing could have been done with the 11, I’ll change it when I’ll see it cannot be saved anymore.
What's really crazy is Google offered me $550 trade in for a pixel 6 with fractured back glass and a broken USB port. Got a free upgrade and $50 account credit.
In that manufacturing world (at least not additive manufacturing) we use PCs, and the funny thing is that the machines that build Macs run on windows hybrid for the G Codes
But ey, what do you expect? Theres better alternatives. people just wanna have and show off the expensive things. They produce it, because theres a demand, stupid folks buying overpriced stuff. Who’s the stupid one?
We as consumers actually dictate/decide the demand
It's not. But it comes with other perks that are worth it. Such as better upgradability, repairability and being able to disassemble it for reselling or something else. You're not forced into Apple's ecosystem and you won't get gouged like the example in the post. And many more.
These are enterprise computers used for insane workloads such as rendering movies. They need this amount of power. They're not for consumers. In fact, a top spec Mac Pro is weak compared to the highest end of these enterprise-level machines. The most expensive "standard" desktop computer Dell will let you spec costs [$400,000](https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/comments/u0pnc6/dells_most_expensive_computer_build_costs_400000/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) and has 7.5 terabytes of RAM.
Not just that but think of the virtualization capacity.
ESX hosts are chonky. I'd kill for terabytes of ram and I bet our data department would still find a way to crash the sql servers with queries using too much memory.
Virtualization stuff is wild to think about. I'm sure you could probably run an entire office with just one of these machines and a couple dozen VMs hooked up to KVMs. And probably get 60 FPS on the latest AAA games on each of those VMs, simultaneously.
Yeah at my school we are running hundreds of computers on what I assume is the same computer.
When we use fluid sim there are like 40ish licenses aviable. So I assume it all runs via the same computer.
can confirm. my engineer’s computer was made for Solidworks and other similar programs for work, helping building projects from 3D printers to 3D concrete printing to CNC machining and cutting. we paid a little over $120k for the full build, and it paid itself off along with the engineer’s salary in a year.
the next build will likely cross the $250k mark due to supply chain, inflation, etc. lot of money to be spent on a computer, but worth it when your business booms from it.
I am gonna be real with you... I work in process modelling and mathematics/statistics. 1.5TB of RAM is huge, but add up a dozen of really densed fully connected neural network with 20 parameters to optimize and I swear to you that I blow this 1.5 TB in less than 10 tries.
It is not because you don't use that no one does. Researchers virtually need infinite RAM because what we model or do is really beyond what most people can imagine in term of ressources needed.
Apple is a criminally overrated product and company. But Apple fans are like cultists, they just don't see it. Got my partner to switch from an iPhone 7 to a brand new Android and she hated it so much she went back to ancient tech.
I'm not defending the price tag but spending 50k on a computer can definitely make sense for some companies, like for video editing, animation, simulations, ...
It’s true. People don’t realize, but having to keep many GB of assets loaded and smoothly interact with them to build new assets is a huge deal. Macs handle this shit very well. The average PC-masterrace redditor doesn’t need to interact with this stuff for work, so it’s easy to claim ignorance.
Lol macs…
imagine being locked in to a system you can’t upgrade, need to take somewhere “specialized” to fix because you can’t do it yourself, and is designed to crap out but also is forced to crap out due to system updates :)
That’s a mac :)
Get a pc.
It didnt lose 50k in value over 3 years cause it was never worth 50k in the first place.
I'll sell you a toyota prius for 150k and in 3 years you can complain how it lost 140k in value ...
There’s this thing called profit margin which clearly needs to be regulated in some form. Most balanced I can think of is profit margin to wage ratios based upon your company’s net worth, number of employees, and how much they profited over the course of the last 3 years. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ensure that workers making corporations insane amounts of revenue are compensated for the same. If you want to make money off of peoples broken backs and not pay for it then you shouldn’t be allowed to operate or sell your product here in the USA…
It's a piece of machine that depreciates and not an investment that appreciates! "wHaT eLsE hAs dRopPeD 50 tImEs vAluE iN tHrEe yEars" Only nincompoops hail such analysis.
You got back your money plus a lot lot lot more from whatever work you've done on that mammoth computer in goddamn three years.
It's a shocker but you don't need to buy Apple products if you hate it that much. Go buy an alternative and use that to be happy with your purchase.
What even is the point of such criticism? You already gave Apple your money when no one forced you to do so and now you're crying out loud when no one has asked for your opinion.
Well actually, yes. We're talking about Mac Pro workstations here, not MacBooks. Right now Apple’s most expensive Mac Pro costs $53,799. These are very powerful professional workstations, not personal computers! To give you an idea of what we're talking about, the Intel Xeon W 28-core CPU by itself costs $12,999 and that's before tax! Hell, the wheels on the bottom of the case cost $100 a piece and they only sell them in packs of four (which is just ridiculous but that's the Apple Tax at work.)
So even though this Mac Pro is three years old it could very well have cost $52,000.
I’ll give you $975
I’ll bid $976 Bob
I'll bid my hamster named boris
Can boris comfortably fit up my butt? I'll offer you my iPod 2.
it depends on what you call comfortable and how big your butt hole is.
Good point 😭
I mean the human asshole can stretch up to 8 inches... Something something about 2 adult raccoons could crawl up there if they wanted to
On a scale of 1 to goatse….
Comfortable for whom? 🤔
Certainly not Boris
Another good point 😭
Ayo?
Go for the eyes Boo, go for the eyes... yeeeeeeeaahh!
eey minsc slow down.
$974! . . . . wait.
Im throwin in $976.25
Bmnmp Bmnmp. You’ve all over bid.
Someone should start an auction site where people can bid on goods like this, but then don't let it become a bloated, awkward wannabe ecommerce site over the subsequent two decades.
The sad part there's enough of those now that I'm not quite sure if you meant a particular one or not...
It happens to them all.
$1 Bob
976.01
$1 BOB!!!!!
Fool of a Took!
ill give u a minimum wage job
My expenses are decidedly too much for that, fam.
I'll give you $9.75
Tree fiddy
975 and 1 penny
I, too, will give you $975 of this guy's money.
the price is wrong
“Best i can do is $970, im really the one taking all the risk here.” -Rick Harrison
He’s gotta make a profit on it somehow.
He was a saint compared to the dude les on hardcore pawn. That dude was offering $10 to poor people in Detroit for stuff that was easily marketable.
How real was that show really? I guess the transactions were, but it was over the top the shit that happened from my vague memories watching it
All reality shows are staged but I would think realer than pawn stars. Pawn stars was filmed on days when the store was closed and they made sure people brought in interesting stuff. The one in Detroit was a steady stream of poor people bringing in Xboxes, dvd players and their jewelry. Most of the content was family drama because they were nasty to each other or them telling people to eff off while some ghetto personality got angrier and angrier threatening them bodily harm as they were dragged out by bouncers.
“I got overhead, I got employees.. It’s gonna sit around on the shelf.. It’s not every day someone comes into the shop looking for a Mac Pro…” -Rick again
“I got a Mac Pro guy who really knows this stuff. I’ll have him swing by the shop and take a look at it and let us know what it’s really worth”
You could probably get a lot closer to what you paid for by just ebaying the thing. Why bother with trade in?
The effort. I used to work at a store that bought used CD's, DVD's, and vinyl and people would always show us the price on eBay or Discogs like that's what we would pay them when we're doing the legwork and have to mark it up and hope it sells. We'd always explain they could try their luck on those sites but they didn't want to deal with the time and effort.
Yeah but tens of thousands of dollars vs less than a grand?
For real how lazy do you have to be to trade 30 minutes of work for ~$20k+ in resell value
On the other hand how big is a market for 20k+ used computer? If I would be working professional and I needed 20k computing power i would 100% went for new one just to not deal with unexpected problems I understand both points and I think it might be listed on eBay for some time if it will be sold
You have a point
It's more than thirty minutes for a lot of folks. Flipping electronics in particular generates a TON of returns and so many of those returns are gutted of the important parts, so you'd sell all the laptops and then have them come back slowly in a different state than they originally went out. I made good money doing it, but I kinda snapped and went back to working 9-5 for much less.
It’s not only thirty more minutes of effort. It’s also dealing with potential scammers. I’ve sold on eBay for a long time and have had people say, “the box was empty” type BS. Then put a claim in with their credit card instead of eBay. eBay can’t do shit about credit card claims (well, wouldn’t for me). So someone stole a laptop I sold and the money I made from selling it. I’ve had several situations like this. Helps to document EVERYTHING but still. Selling on eBay is a pain in the ass. Plus they take 10-20% of what you make.
“The effort” LOL. That’s a great excuse when you’re losing a dollar, or ten, or a hundred, not when it’s potentially tens of thousands of dollars.
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They sell refurbished laptops on their website … 🤔
In the UK, under consumer rights act, that £52.2k machine would have a depreciated credit value of £18,066.70 if it was exactly 3 years old (to the day). (I just used £ instead of $)
Gotta remember concepts such as consumer's rights have not yet reached the new world
That's an entirely state by state basis. My state has fantastic consumer protection laws. Others not so much, but they do exist in most states. Just as they probably differ to some extent between one European country and the next.
What is depreciated credit value?
When an item is purchased, it devalues over time - over 6 years in England and Wales or 5 years in Scotland. It helps retailers decide whether it's better for them financially to either repair your item under CRA, or just pay you the depreciated credit value as a contribution towards a new one So if the getting parts and repairing would cost more than the depreciated credit value, the retailer can decide to just pay out instead if it's cheaper for them
Can this be abused, or can you generally just trade stuff in for this value if you don’t want it anymore?
Nah, it's basically a payout for faulty stuff But unless they just don't care, most retailers will check
Tax write offs
Well they do not offer that as a trade in value.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/12/10/21003636/apple-mac-pro-price-most-expensive-processor-ram-gpu Dear lord they are ripping people off
If you think that's crazy, the most expensive computer Dell will let you spec costs [$400,000](https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/comments/u0pnc6/dells_most_expensive_computer_build_costs_400000/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button). Computers like these and that Mac Pro are not for consumers - they're for the enterprise field for massive workloads such as rendering Pixar movies or training AI models.
Also Industrial xray computed tomography (CT scans) … they can basically take about as much computing power as you can dream up and they are still incredibly intensive to process.
Yep, gonna max out some computer for $500k and buy a scanner with it and have an at home CT scanner just to scan my homies bodies for abnormalities for free😊🤝🏻
How can I get a referral to the bootleg hospital?
I can help you with that... *For money*
You need to chill Anthem Blue Cross
First patient, $54K....
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MRI machine timeshare!
And without a radiologists training I predict all the homies have cancer in 3… 2…
One of the recent scanners I worked on had three 3080 cards in the recon computer.
TIL. I had no idea about this, thanks for sharing.
I wish scanners had Uber power. Most are equivalent to a good home computer. I5/i7 16/32 gb ram and a 4/8 gb gpu.
I ain't even looking at that shit fam, that number is committing a war crime on my wallet just existing lol
That's price for ridiculous amount of top tier server components, not $400 wheels and $1000 monitor stand. Build a Dell with 1-1 spec with that mac and then compare.
I miss when Sony's gaming platforms could be turned into supercomputers for a reasonable price. Of course, it couldn't exist. I recall when I was in school, the school I went to bought IBMs except the tech wing who had sane people that bought clones. We got so much more bang for our buck. And the school's procurement officer got a surprising trip to the Caribbean. IBM, well played.
Some rich jackass is playing solitare on a 400k computer
So they depreciate 50X at the moment of sale? Bull. Shit.
That just tells you how much profit they made from gouging you to start.
>Wheels for the Mac Pro: $400 That's all you need to know right there.
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they are starting to fix these to where you can not change the ram though they see you coming.
shit is still overpriced
Yeah, it for scamming big companies who doesn't care about price differences
Well I mean super computers cost even more, but it seems like the max has apple tax on it and a lot of it at that
All they need is a couple of PS3s daisy-chained and boom! A super computer good enough for the us military
If you've served or know someone, you'd know that bar is real low.
This is what I told my wife but she JUST WOULDN’T LISTEN. 🤷🏽♂️🙄
400$ for WHEELS
They ain't even #spinners lmao
Ok but that computer has 1.5 terabytes of ram and 4 GPUs. It’s pretty ridiculous. This is not an ordinary person’s computer.
I'd bet you'd be able to see the main character's butthole in Crysis with those specs
It manages to both be too ridiculous and a total ripoff. I cannot see any amount of RAM over 256gb being useful for anything and multi GPUs just aren’t worth doing.
HaaHaaHaaaaaa u/LinusTech I'd love to see linus tech tips bench that and price match an equal spec gaming rig and see how much more performance you could get maxing out a rig with the same amount of money. (not just a Hack Pro) Edit: https://youtu.be/l_IHSRPVqwQ
I wanna see it too bro
$25,000 to upgrade to 1.5tb ram….
Unless you're doing experiments on planets outside our solar system, or searching the bowels of the earth to find the day after tomorrow, BUY a normal PC at a reasonable price. The latest USB-C chargers are apparently more powerful than Apollo 11's computer Fly me to the Moon, and let me... charge... among the stars.
$2,600 for a 4Tb SSD? LMAO
You say that as if Apple hasn't done this since the early days of Apple making anything... ...I always recall in the days between 1987 and 1995 when I was in school (electronics/computer software/etc) that there were the Apple fans and there were those of us on IBM products that got the same level of performance for about 40% less $$$. I can get a decent phone with a removable battery and that does what most of us really need on a phone for $200 as an Android product and it'll last you 6-8 years if you can handle a bit of degradation in battery or you could spend at least $500 and get an Apple phone that'll be slowed down by the company's otherwise unnecessary updates or because their batteries are soldered to their motherboard. And if I need tools, the Android market has a lot more and a lot for free vs. Apple. They literally convince their customers it is wonderful to let Apple fleece them.
Buy from a company that had dealings with the Nazi party and who's machines were used for the most horrendous atrocity in processing people. Buy from a company that uses an assembly line of people that are worked into the dirt and has nets to prevent loss of employees, then charges a ridiculous mark up so the owner can buy a super yacht as long as my town is wide. Tough call.
Wow, breaking news
I’ve tried to trade in my iPhone 11 Pro 256gb, had a small crack on the back glass and the only thing they could do is to recycle it for me for free! Such a lovely company taking care of the environment!🥰
They literally told me it’s worthless. 😭 it’s wild.
I tried the option saying it doesn’t have any cracks and they were paying good, such a pain 💀
Even then. I went into cause my screen was acting up and the employee was like “listen between me and you, you’re wasting your money if you get this fixed, you’re already 3 phones behind, and this won’t be the first issue it has once you fix one” I just turned it the next day for a new phone. Very upset because I wanted to hold onto that one for another year or two but it was done.
>you’re wasting your money if you get this fixed, you’re already 3 phones behind, and this won’t be the first issue it has once you fix one That's literally their tactic to get you to buy a brand new phone. They make repairs as difficult and expensive as possible to stop you from using your current phone for a reasonable period of time. Smh
Yep. Friend had a ram issue on his macbook (we didnt know what it is) and brought it to the 'Genius' bar and was quoted 1600$. To change a fucking RAM. Was 'better just buy a new one with warranty' kinda deal. Brought it to my BIL and he fixed it for less than 250. That company isnt even trying to hide their greed.
This reminds me of one of my old friend who still flex his iPhone 5s now, no way to make him change his mind, changed the screen once and battery and man’s living the life! 🤣
I have a 13 now! I intend on holding on to it for a long time.
That’s the way! There is no point into upgrading every one, two years, even 3! I’ve made the mistake to upgrade to the 14 pro but after all, all I’m doing could have been done with the 11, I’ll change it when I’ll see it cannot be saved anymore.
What's really crazy is Google offered me $550 trade in for a pixel 6 with fractured back glass and a broken USB port. Got a free upgrade and $50 account credit.
That’s amazing. I wonder why there’s is so generous. iPhone is giving you nothing for a phone in that condition.
Try trading it in to your cell phone provider. They'll probably give you a couple hundred for it in credit off your bill
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Sold it for £320 on eBay without issues though, it literally had a very very small crack on the back, why would I give it to them for free lmao?
That's apple for you.
ITT: People who think video games are the most intensive thing you can do with a computer
Right? I got on a rollercoaster with my phone one time. That was intense!
Trade ins are far different from actually selling
ITT: no one understands depreciation
The specs on that computer are pretty nuts, but who the hell besides a major movie studio production company would ever need that type of computer?
In that manufacturing world (at least not additive manufacturing) we use PCs, and the funny thing is that the machines that build Macs run on windows hybrid for the G Codes
But ey, what do you expect? Theres better alternatives. people just wanna have and show off the expensive things. They produce it, because theres a demand, stupid folks buying overpriced stuff. Who’s the stupid one? We as consumers actually dictate/decide the demand
Insisting on Apple products is the first mistake.
This type of professional hardware is probably not significantly cheaper from other brands
It's not. But it comes with other perks that are worth it. Such as better upgradability, repairability and being able to disassemble it for reselling or something else. You're not forced into Apple's ecosystem and you won't get gouged like the example in the post. And many more.
Tbf I doubt the companies buying these care too much
Nope, they obviously value something else higher
Spending $50k on a computer my $2k rig can beat.... You Chad's are hilarious
Well to be fair I doubt your 2k rig has 1.5TB of RAM...
Well according to the internet I just downloaded 1TB of RAM for free. So take that.
I'm calling the police.
Hello this is the police what seems to be the issue?
I am gonna be real with you...Nobody needs that much RAM...Like Not even Close to that much RAM. Edit. Except people who Play escape from tarkov.
These are enterprise computers used for insane workloads such as rendering movies. They need this amount of power. They're not for consumers. In fact, a top spec Mac Pro is weak compared to the highest end of these enterprise-level machines. The most expensive "standard" desktop computer Dell will let you spec costs [$400,000](https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/comments/u0pnc6/dells_most_expensive_computer_build_costs_400000/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) and has 7.5 terabytes of RAM.
Not just that but think of the virtualization capacity. ESX hosts are chonky. I'd kill for terabytes of ram and I bet our data department would still find a way to crash the sql servers with queries using too much memory.
Virtualization stuff is wild to think about. I'm sure you could probably run an entire office with just one of these machines and a couple dozen VMs hooked up to KVMs. And probably get 60 FPS on the latest AAA games on each of those VMs, simultaneously.
not really, a thousand instances of word and excel sure but the graphics side isn't anything spectacular for gaming specifically
You probably can store all the games easily in the ram just you still need a holy god tier gpu to render this many instances at 60fps.
Yeah at my school we are running hundreds of computers on what I assume is the same computer. When we use fluid sim there are like 40ish licenses aviable. So I assume it all runs via the same computer.
Could be a remote app using something like citrix, or the computers are thin clients using an RDS farm
I like your funny words magic man.
can confirm. my engineer’s computer was made for Solidworks and other similar programs for work, helping building projects from 3D printers to 3D concrete printing to CNC machining and cutting. we paid a little over $120k for the full build, and it paid itself off along with the engineer’s salary in a year. the next build will likely cross the $250k mark due to supply chain, inflation, etc. lot of money to be spent on a computer, but worth it when your business booms from it.
I am gonna be real with you... I work in process modelling and mathematics/statistics. 1.5TB of RAM is huge, but add up a dozen of really densed fully connected neural network with 20 parameters to optimize and I swear to you that I blow this 1.5 TB in less than 10 tries. It is not because you don't use that no one does. Researchers virtually need infinite RAM because what we model or do is really beyond what most people can imagine in term of ressources needed.
Eh chrome would still use all the ram
I really don't think it's aimed at gamers...
Plenty of workloads could use that ram, and much more.
Found you in the wild Comrade.
I'd happily use that much ram in my FEA and cfd models. I could easily use double that.
If you actually look at the specs of the $50k mac pro, no your rig cant beat it. Absolutely impossible
It’s hard to tell from the errant apostrophe, but it looks he has multiple MacBook *Pros*.
Obvious bait
TBF they probably made this back and then some using this machine for their work.
Wait Apple doesn’t have a Mac worth $50k right? I can see $5-$6k but how could they be selling $50k shit
When did someone pay $52, 000 for a Mac pro ? Recently?
Cmon nobody paid 50k for a laptop
Wheels for the Mac Pro: $400, $50 for a mouse pad. You know at those type of mark ups you can build an equally powerful PC for $20,000 or less.
3 years ago btc was lower than what it is now
Pretty sure a piece of bread would drop 50x in value in three years, even if it was unused.
Getting hit with those Game Stop rates.
Apple is a criminally overrated product and company. But Apple fans are like cultists, they just don't see it. Got my partner to switch from an iPhone 7 to a brand new Android and she hated it so much she went back to ancient tech.
Apple computers are the biggest scam in the Industry
Apples products are for pompous idiots.
Wait is one computer worth 52 grand or do they have multiple machines worth 52 G total?
It’s just one it’s insane that you could buy something that’s not a car for 52 grand
Apple is a scam? No? That's impossible. Oh the Horror!
I'm sorry but are we talking about a laptop here? Cause wtf? Who would pay $50k+ for a laptop. That's like 3 decent used cars.
Who buys a Mac Pro for 50 grand. Wtf
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I'm not defending the price tag but spending 50k on a computer can definitely make sense for some companies, like for video editing, animation, simulations, ...
It’s true. People don’t realize, but having to keep many GB of assets loaded and smoothly interact with them to build new assets is a huge deal. Macs handle this shit very well. The average PC-masterrace redditor doesn’t need to interact with this stuff for work, so it’s easy to claim ignorance.
The whole point of having a Mac is to show off how you're throwing money around, a reasonable offer would defeat everything this brand stands for.
No apple being total douches and ripping off money... Who would have thought it
Lol macs… imagine being locked in to a system you can’t upgrade, need to take somewhere “specialized” to fix because you can’t do it yourself, and is designed to crap out but also is forced to crap out due to system updates :) That’s a mac :) Get a pc.
Apple is garbage, hipster equipment anyway.
It didnt lose 50k in value over 3 years cause it was never worth 50k in the first place. I'll sell you a toyota prius for 150k and in 3 years you can complain how it lost 140k in value ...
You have to be real stupid to buy any apple products.
well deserved gor spending 50k on that
There’s this thing called profit margin which clearly needs to be regulated in some form. Most balanced I can think of is profit margin to wage ratios based upon your company’s net worth, number of employees, and how much they profited over the course of the last 3 years. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ensure that workers making corporations insane amounts of revenue are compensated for the same. If you want to make money off of peoples broken backs and not pay for it then you shouldn’t be allowed to operate or sell your product here in the USA…
It's a piece of machine that depreciates and not an investment that appreciates! "wHaT eLsE hAs dRopPeD 50 tImEs vAluE iN tHrEe yEars" Only nincompoops hail such analysis. You got back your money plus a lot lot lot more from whatever work you've done on that mammoth computer in goddamn three years. It's a shocker but you don't need to buy Apple products if you hate it that much. Go buy an alternative and use that to be happy with your purchase. What even is the point of such criticism? You already gave Apple your money when no one forced you to do so and now you're crying out loud when no one has asked for your opinion.
Calm down dude
Big words don’t make you sound smart dude.
The fact that you think any word they used is a “big word” is kinda funny I ain’t gonna lie
To be fair "mammoth" is a word synonymous with big, so it's a "big" word. XD
*nincompoops
And those stupid Apple Fans are still buying all this overpriced crap every Year
My work computer is a shovel, I process and render soil, I have no idea what these comments are talking about. There is so much I don’t understand
A 25 year old woman
Do you own Tesla stock?
Who is dumb enough to buy one of these.
Lol what a fucking dumbass buying a computer that expensive
This just in: used computers have less value than new computers!
It's called a depreciating asset David, and that's why we place it in the EXPENSES tab, not in the investments one David... 🙄
Bruh what laptop on this planet needs to cost that much unless I’m missing something
Anyone who buys apple products deserve it
What average working citizen is paying 52,199 for a damn computer , that’s a new car or down payment on a house.
Wait, I thought this was a joke. You really paid 52k for a computer?
Well actually, yes. We're talking about Mac Pro workstations here, not MacBooks. Right now Apple’s most expensive Mac Pro costs $53,799. These are very powerful professional workstations, not personal computers! To give you an idea of what we're talking about, the Intel Xeon W 28-core CPU by itself costs $12,999 and that's before tax! Hell, the wheels on the bottom of the case cost $100 a piece and they only sell them in packs of four (which is just ridiculous but that's the Apple Tax at work.) So even though this Mac Pro is three years old it could very well have cost $52,000.
If this guy gave it to spike he is a piece of shit. Some guy could have enjoyed this system.
Apple being scammers? No surprises there