Mac Pro “Dream Machine”
April 5, 2007 | by Carson
Yesterday Apple introduced their latest addition to the Mac Pro family- a ridiculously fast 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based machine. Of course, like any self-respecting designer would do, I had to cruise on over to the Apple site and customize one for myself.
Apple boasts of 33 million configurations- but I was curious to see how much the new offering would cost with all the bells and whistles. (not that any web designer could ever actually use this configuration to its full potential)
Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeons, 16GB of RAM, four 750GB hard drives, one NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, two 30 inch Apple Cinema HD Displays, two 16x SuperDrives, one Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, and one AirPort Extreme card later my subtotal stood at an incredible $15,717.00!
Wow. That’s a lot of cake for a computer.
I shared my “research” with my wife, Amanda. A look of pure horror ran across her face… and I spent the rest of the evening assuring her that I am completely happy with my current setup and I am definitely not crazy enough to drop that kind of cash on any computer… (but wow, would it be sweet!)
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April 5th, 2007 | 1:17 pm
After my initial reaction of awe and the sweet, consumig thought of that much power I practically laughed myself out of my chair at Amanda’s reaction. Although I have neither the budget or the need for fancy Apple products whenever I talk about them with Jessica she, too, does not ever know whether or not I am serious. Her standing joke is that if there ever is a fire in our apartment and I can only carry out one thing, she believes that I would push her out of the way in order to make a clear path for a daring rescue of and exit with my iMac.