New MacPro arrival

According to Apple's website the new MacPro will be launched with 4 and 6 core configurations for $2999 and $3999 respectively. Now, MacRumors reportedly has information on the prices of further upgrades.

CPU
3.0 GHz 8-Core +$1500
2.7 GHz 12-Core +$3000

GPU
Dual AMD FirePro D700 w/ 6GB GDDR5 +$600

RAM
32 GB +$400
64GB +$1600

PCIe SSD
512GB +$300
1TB +800

At first the pricing appears to be extravagant. But considering that the CPU is Xeon server grade, the RAM being ECC and the storage PCIe you cannot compare the prices to a desktop level computer.

The new plan of having all storage externally via up to 6 Thunderbolt 2 cables is no doubt a great idea to keep footprint size down. But one must think how Apple is it to have so many cables hanging off your computer anyway?

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