Mac Pro Pricing

Back in June 2019, Apple announced the new Mac Pro:

Designed for maximum performance, expansion and configurability, the all-new Mac Pro features workstation-class Xeon processors up to 28 cores, a high-performance memory system with a massive 1.5TB capacity, eight PCIe expansion slots and a graphics architecture featuring the world’s most powerful graphics card.

As usual, when a new machine comes out from Apple, we head to the configuration page and max it out.

Fully-loaded Mac Pro

That’s:

And that’s without a display. The Pro Display XDR is $46k:

So, a total of around $457k! Not for me. Let’s spec a reasonable Mac Pro and iMac Pro.

Reasonable Mac Pro

You can get reasonable 5k monitors for around $7k.

Total: ~$74k.

Reasonable iMac Pro

Total: $56k.

For comparison, a fully-loaded iMac 27in with Retina 5K display is $34k: