I always wanted to buy a "fully loaded" Mac...

[Speedy]

Leader!

http://appleinsider.com/mac_price_guide/

Congratulations on years and years of happy Macing. (I was hoping to read that it was a completely decked out Mac Pro… but then you would have to change your screen name to John Nodough.)

[davester]

hal wrote:
I had my hands on one of those top of the line + EVERYTHING machines from 2013... unimaginably wonderful. You will love it and will want to take it to bed with you when it's time to sleep.

..until the next gen machine comes out.

[Felix]

Leader!

[silvarios]

rz wrote:
I've had my Mac Pro for 6 years now, and I got it when it was almost a year old. Nice thing about the old Mac Pros is that you can add to them incrementally. Since getting it, I've added RAM, added hard drives, put in a BR burner, added a nice 2GB video card, added an eSATA card (since removed), added a second quad-core CPU, and added a USB3 card. It's still a pretty darned fast machine. I'm hoping to get another year or two out of it before I move to something else. I've been hoping to find an inexpensive 5,1 pro, but no luck so far. I'd go to an iMac, but I have 10TB of internal storage now, and would have to go to external storage for all of it.

How many drives equals 10TB? Five 2TB? You can get a pretty nice, if pricey, Thunderbolt enclosure to handle those drives. Assuming you go the iMac route.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Nice machine, it is the closest to the one I want (which Apple doesn't make).

[tuqqer]

nice one. Glad you went for it. I'll bet you don't regret a single minute of it over the coming years. (it's the way I feel about my Mac Pro)

[gabester]

I was hoping you'd get this:

http://www.macmall.com/n/macNavLinks-308?q=9859482&qt=9889918

The fully loaded Mac Pro.

Or this...

[spoiler=Fully Loaded Mac]

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[Lux Interior]

rz wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
VERY nice.

I always tell people... get the Mac you think you'll need two years from now. Because it will last at least five years.

I've had my Mac Pro for 6 years now, and I got it when it was almost a year old. Nice thing about the old Mac Pros is that you can add to them incrementally.
Exactly what I was thinking. You never wanted a "fully loaded" Mac. You wanted to get as much CPU as possible and then upgrade the RAM & storage yourself and avoid Apple's markup.

[john dough]

Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=rz]
[quote=cbelt3]
VERY nice.

I always tell people... get the Mac you think you'll need two years from now. Because it will last at least five years.

I've had my Mac Pro for 6 years now, and I got it when it was almost a year old. Nice thing about the old Mac Pros is that you can add to them incrementally.
Exactly what I was thinking. You never wanted a "fully loaded" Mac. You wanted to get as much CPU as possible and then upgrade the RAM & storage yourself and avoid Apple's markup.
With today's MBPs, you cannot upgrade the RAM and I need the space now (the speed and the ability to run a 4K monitor will be really nice). I did have a MP for years and it was a workhorse for some time, where I DID max that out. I was not really in the market to get a new laptop until I had a client need one ASAP.

[jdc]

Lux Interior wrote:
Exactly what I was thinking. You never wanted a "fully loaded" Mac. You wanted to get as much CPU as possible and then upgrade the RAM & storage yourself and avoid Apple's markup.

For good or bad it just doesn't work that way anymore.

For example the SSD in this MBP is not a standard 2.5" SSD you can buy at Best Buy for $200. It's PCIe flash based storage that has benchmark read/write speeds of up to 2000/1500 Mbps.

How much would a drive like that cost 3rd party in a 1 TB size? OWCs similar aura is $500... The same amount apple chargers for the 1 TB upgrade.

So not all bad =)