You can now pay up to $60k for a Mac

I'm curious if people have insight into the market for this besides "video professionals"?

I can't imagine the economics work for large shops, where I would guess commodity hardware rules 99% of the time.

Scientific computing will be done on large clusters -- and not clusters of $60k office art.

Of course there's the % of the overall market that buys Ferraris and other expensive toys.

Seriously, what does one do with 1.5TB of RAM in a single machine?

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I'm not suggesting this doesn't make sense. There's a precedent in e.g., high end loudspeakers of producing a cost-no-object showpiece that people talk about but represents a small % of their overall sales.

Ditto high end cars and small production run 'statement' versions of those cars.

I'm just curious who -- strictly performance-wise -- this computer would serve well.