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Re:Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Mo... by reaperducer on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:34PM (#20130052)
I could see it if the stand provided some benefit other than looking cool. Like acting as a heat-sink, or being a massive Thunderbolt hub.

But even I, who has bought half a dozen launch-day Apple items, was surprised that this price point made it through the marketing department. It came off as really tone-deaf. More than half of the Macs in my office use reams of paper as monitor stands.

Maybe iFixit will do a teardown and find out it's made from mermaid scales and unicorn farts.

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Re:Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Mo... by scarface74 on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:39PM (#20130079)
$5000 for the iMac Pro isn’t bad if you need that kind of power - even though you could spec a regular 5K iMac that was close enough and save a grand.

The price of the Mac Pro + monitor wouldn’t even make me blink if I had a business that needed it.

But the stand is ridiculous even by Apple standards.

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Re:Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Mo... by thrower123 on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:44PM (#20130095)
It's bad when you can build a desktop with the same components for $2000 or less, without the Apple Tax. Trying to act as though they aren't marking everything up at least 100% is disingenuous, but extremely common for some reason.
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Re:Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Mo... by scarface74 on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:49PM (#20130108)
So try to configure an iMac Pro level desktop for $2000 less.

Don’t forget that the 5K monitor by itself is $1300.

Also try configuring a workstation for $3000 with the specs of the Mac Pro.

On the lower end, try configuring a desktop for much less than the $2100 iMac 5K.

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Re:Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Mo... by jmkni on Saturday June 08, 2019 @12:14AM (#20130589)
Small nitpick, the Mac Pro and iMac Pro are 2 different products.
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Re:Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Mo... by scarface74 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:09AM (#20131064)
Yes. And that’s why I use the word “also..”.
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