Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary PR fail

Re:Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary ... by snazz on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:08AM (#20114687)

A hundred thousand dollars? Where are you getting that from? It has got to be expensive, but $6k base ($12k with monitor and stand) to $130k fully specced seems exceedingly unlikely. Are the GPUs and 28-core Xeon that expensive? What component causes the sudden jump in price?

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Re:Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary ... by jvzr on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:32AM (#20114895)

1.5 TB ECC RAM for a start. Then the 4 Vega II GPU cards. Add to that the Afterburner card, a terabyte or more of native SSD storage, and possibly more PCIe SSD storage through MPX slot. Yeah, I think you will hit that very easily!

Edit: I couldn't find a single 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2993 MHz DIMM, but the closest I found is the 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2400 MHz DIMM at 2249.99 a piece. Now imagine 12 of those, at higher frequency, with the usual Apple markup. That's already 30 to 40K alone.

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Re:Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary ... by snazz on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:51AM (#20115082)

Okay, you’re not that far off. A similar HP Z8/G4 machine would come in at $53,325, so I could see the Mac with monitors nearing $100,000.

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Re:Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary ... by aloer on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:57AM (#20115147)

I used the hp workstation configurator for their highest priced tier and added 28c Xeon and ram and single v100 and it came out at 56k. I assume the Vega II duo x2 at 28 tflop will be similar to 4x v100 each at 9k so going from there it’s already at 84k.

Add a little extra because it’s apple and I could see it pushing 100k

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