The Mac Pro is expensive, and polarizing, there’s no doubt. But it precisely hit what and who Apple was aiming for, and is in no way a sign that Apple has lost its way.
iMac Pro, again
When the iMac Pro launched two years ago, it met or beat Windows workstation pricing for identical hardware. And, right now, the Mac Pro at the low end, at least, looks to be about the same —but, admittedly, it is a hard compare to hit it identically.
If you say that there are no workstations that cost this much on the Windows side, you’re vastly mistaken. Go ahead and hit the custom hardware configurators from Dell, Lenovo, or other workstation manufacturers. See what you build.
But, be sure when you build, and before you complain about the Mac Pro’s cost, that you’re comparing like with like, as closely as you can. Select the high-end AMD cards, try to get four Thunderbolt 3 ports, make sure you’re picking Xeon W processors with similar cache, and a machine that can handle up to 2TB of RAM.
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