UK Mac Pro Pricing Will Start at £2499

[JMcEntegart]

The 2013 Mac Pro will cost just shy of £2.5K when it launches in the United Kingdom.

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[ahmedomran]

Very high price for a trash can LOL , Joking

 

[Vorador2]

Although i do think the cooling design is interesting, the "trash can" design gives more problems that solutions. Want to add a RAID0 HDD stripe for video editing and storage? Or a high end audio capture card for studio work? Good luck with that.

Not to talk about the pricing. For that price you can get a well specced standard workstation.

A by-the-books case of form over function.

 

[cuecuemore]

Sounds like a steal! I can't wait not to buy one!

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Seriously Tom? I'd expect a prominent hardware site to have the intelligence to realise that US prices don't include sales prices whereas UK prices do. The UK price included 20% sales tax. So the comparison price is £2083 vs $3000 or £2083 vs £1855. So yes, the price is higher in the UK but the difference is far smaller and is about 10% instead of the 25% difference you're suggesting.

Is Apple ridiculous in charging 10% more in the UK than the US? Dell does worse. Dell's $2348 Alienware Aurora is £2199 in the UK. Removing tax that's £1451 vs £1832.5.

Higher prices are to be expected in the UK where operating costs are increased, especially for brands that have high street presences. Apple 'haters' always spring on this to slam Apple's pricing when Apple aren't the worst at this practice by far and actually have more of a reason to require higher prices due to their heavy retail presence (there are no Dell stores in the UK). I'd expect a reputable news site to have a better understanding.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Seriously Tom? I'd expect a prominent hardware site to have the intelligence to realise that US prices don't include sales prices whereas UK prices do. The UK price included 20% sales tax. So the comparison price is £2083 vs $3000 or £2083 vs £1855. So yes, the price is higher in the UK but the difference is far smaller and is about 10% instead of the 25% difference you're suggesting.

Is Apple ridiculous in charging 10% more in the UK than the US? Dell does worse. Dell's $2348 Alienware Aurora is £2199 in the UK. Removing tax that's £1451 vs £1832.5.

Higher prices are to be expected in the UK where operating costs are increased, especially for brands that have high street presences. Apple 'haters' always spring on this to slam Apple's pricing when Apple aren't the worst at this practice by far and actually have more of a reason to require higher prices due to their heavy retail presence (there are no Dell stores in the UK). I'd expect a reputable news site to have a better understanding.

 

[jankeke]

@ Vorador2

What would a well specced standard workstation be ?
I don't know much about those.

Thanks.

 

[infernocy]

i can go to pcspecialist.co.uk website and can built a custom laptop or pc that can blow this to space for the same price ... these are just some really horrible prices

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

@infernocy

Really? The closest specced workstation with xeons and dual workstation graphics I can put together on pcspecialist.co.uk is about the same in cost yet has a 10% slower GPU, less RAM, smaller SSD. For the hardware that is in that new Mac Pro, it is a good price. Especially when you factor in engineering costs. It was similar with the 2006 and 2008 Mac Pro models, they were cheaper for the components than rivals or even building your own. Not true for the Nehalem level machines but it looks to be true again with these variants. Remember, these are workstations with workstation grade processors and graphics cards. Dell's closest competitor workstation machines (i.e. T7600) cost considerably more for a similar specced model (about £2900 after VAT).

 

[back_by_demand]

Dear Mac Pro,

Please stop raping me.

Regards,
My Wallet

 

[Brian Schonewille]

You could build your own PC that would slaughter the mac for way cheaper and you can upgrade it in the future with ease, not having to pay the fruit store absurd prices for proprietary overpriced hardware. But I don't think it's meant for people who know how to build their own computer. It looks " pretty " so people will but it because apple looks nice and nothing could ever be better. Sure you can expand it with thunderbolt but that is too expensive, on top of your 3g's plus.

 

[eodeo]

I'm so glad that Mac OS is the way it is and therefore I don't need it for anything.

The hardware choice here is questionable and the price is outrageous.

Tully, an Apple product by any measure.

 

[falchard]

Don't you guys understand, this Mac Pro isn't about anything ludicrous like Productivity. Its a design element to pull your office together. So don't compare it to the far more useful boxes of awesomeness most of us use for work.