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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Mac Pros are very pricey. You have to remember that these are the very machines used in Hollywood to edit feature-length films. Mind you, it can also be argued that the Mac Pros use very high-end, performance-grade components... but I really don't know enough about them to comment any further.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure my question was specific to the new 27" iMac. It's important to remember that the iMac is Apple's consumer/workplace desktop. The Mac Pros are a completely different beast.
This is the very point I've been making. People claim that the iMac is over-priced, but yet they can't build it themselves (or buy it anywhere else pre-made) for less than what Apple sells it for.
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I'm sorry, but for the price of a Mac Pro, almost anyone could build an absolute beast of a computer at newegg. And that would be with industry leading components that blow away the components available through Apple. I remember a couple of a years ago looking at their cinema displays and noticing that they were about a generation behind in tech specifications, but priced way higher than the industry leaders. This same idea goes for their components. they get some good things early, but have long update cycles where they limp along with old tech. A company like Apple, or Dell, or HP can't really keep up with the changes the way a builder can because it is too difficult to continually make changes to the product line to reflect the incremental changes in the hardware world.
But, as you say, they cannot make a iMac. I beg to differ, othat than the form factor, one can find other all-in-one solutions that would have comparable to better specs, and be much less pricey. I'm thinking about some of the nice looking Asus all-in-ones that have been dropping lately.