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New 12-core Mac Pro, starting at $3799

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Where "new" means a minor speed bump of the old 12 core Mac Pro but still on the same, last generation CPU tech, a 2.5 year old graphics card, no Thunderbolt, and no USB 3. (Though the latter 3 could all be solved for existing Mac Pros with the right add on cards if Apple chose to do so.)

And they're charging (as far as I can tell from finding the same/equivalent parts on newegg for the lowest end $2,500 model) 4-5x the actual hardware cost.

CPU: $260, 3x2GB ECC DDR3: $60, 1TB 7200 RPM HDD: $120, Radeon HD 5770: $120

what cpu model did you chose to price it a 260$?

six cores nehalem start around 1000$ according to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)#Ser...

While probably far from "best bang for the buck", the 2 2.4GHz is probably closer to the real cost than the other models.

Best 6 cores for the buck seems to be this baby right now, although it doesn't seem to support multiple processors as it is not a Xeon DP. http://ark.intel.com/products/63697

Yeah, I was just about to post the same thing. What a ridiculous rip-off. A 5770 card? Really, for that price I get a 5770? I just built a new PC for $1500 that blows it out of the water in every aspect but the CPU (I went with an i5 2500k quad-core @3.2Ghz, OC'd to 4.3). I like some things about Apple, I'm typing this on my iPhone, but I would never buy another PC from them unless I needed an ultra-portable laptop. They're just not worth the price tag.

Comparison with the previous models: http://www.macstories.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mac-Pro...

$15,416.00 for the fully pimped version. Sploosh. What kind of multicore Linux box could I build for that? (I love Macs, just not this range).

This looks more like "we couldn't keep buying the old processor" than a real upgrade.

Was this announced in the keynote? Why did they keep it out?

> Why did they keep it out?

Apple doesn't generally hold events or give keynote time over to simple spec bumps in product lines that aren't hugely popular, like the Mac Pros, or the Mac Minis.

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