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 I was just looking over the new iMacs and thinking about how much power they pack. Then, of course, I started comparing them to the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is an incredible technological beast. I still love my huge aluminum tower from 2005 (Power Mac G5) that now acts as just a torrent server and music player. Sure it's big. Sure it's old and now slow in today's standards, but it's still awesome. The two desktops, iMac and Mac Pro, are so different. One is a complete package with everything you need to get started. Slim, sleek, and elegant. You can picture it easily on your $5,000 modern desk or in a public classroom. On the other hand, there is the brutish Headless Horseman. A brain without a face. A big aluminum block. Do you put it on the desk or under? One monitor or two? Two hard drives for four? So many choices to turn this beast into the greased, bit crunching machine of your dreams. Raw power. Nothing flashy. No neon lights or shiny surfaces. Just function. And then there's the price. The iMac, in it's perfect two-sizes-fits-all packages, is all you need. With the Mac Pro you need at least a monitor. So after adding a mid level Apple monitor to the $2,500 base price, you're looking at $3,400 for a usable computer. This just seems incredibly expensive for a computer. I looked back at the prices of Mac Pros and Power Macs wondering how I was ever able to afford two in the years of using macs. Well, the based prices have risen considerably. $900 in the last 10 years to be exact. Which is actually opposite of the iMac, which has fallen $100 since it's introduction 11 years ago May. I made a simple chart to follow Mac Pro's price changes in the last 10 years.  Then there's baby of the Mac Pro, the Mac Mini. But that's just an extravagant media server. |
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