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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by octorian on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:12PM (#17524188)
> The option is to buy it fully specced. A new 6-core i9 with 32 gigs of DDR4 amd 4TB of flash storage will probably keep you happy for the next 5 years. That means your budget is slightly above US$ 1200/year of happy computing with a Mac.

The problem is that not everyone has the budget to buy a fully-speced machine at the time of initial purchase. Also, many laptop vendors charge a significant premium to buy such configurations.

Apple partly solves this by simply not even selling the low-speced "base model" that other vendors would advertise. But still, buying low/mid-range now and upgrading later can be significantly more tolerable on the wallet than going-for-broke every major upgrade cycle.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by rbanffy on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:10PM (#17524744)
> The problem is that not everyone has the budget to buy a fully-speced machine at the time of initial purchase

Yes. In some markets Apple offers financing options right on their website. In case of businesses, they can deal directly with their banks.

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