What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro?

zacharye writes "The new Mac Pro is the most powerful and flexible computer Apple has ever created, and it's also extremely expensive — or is it? With a price tag that can climb up around $10,000, Apple's latest enterprise workhorse clearly isn't cheap. For businesses with a need for all that muscle, however, is that steep price justifiable or is there a premium 'Apple tax' that companies will have to pay? Shortly after the new Mac Pro was finally made available for purchase last week, one PC enthusiast set out to answer that question and in order to do so, he asked another one: How much would it cost to build a comparable Windows 8 machine?"

Comments

I bought my Mom a Mac Pro

[MonkeyDancer]

I bought my Mom a Mac Pro for Christmas.
She says GMail runs so much faster now.

Re: Hard to believe

[Anonymous Coward]

Final Cut Pro and Lightroom work so well in Linux.

Re:Obvious Question

[lennier1]

Well, maybe for the on-board computer of a clown car.

You laugh

[rsilvergun]

I've seen JavaScript heavy sites that make my i7 laptop's extra fans kick on...

Re:Hard to believe

[jones_supa]

There are many different versions of various 3ghz processors out there with vastly differing prices.

A 3GHz Pentium 4 should come off cheap. ;)

Re:People forget

[VortexCortex]

DYI parts

DYI parts

Do yourself in?

Re:Hard to believe

[TClevenger]

Pack with you? Because that's a concern with desktop workstations?

The CPU and two video cards have a combined TDP of 680 watts--and that's not including chipset, RAM, drives, power supply, etc. I hope this thing has lead weights in the bottom; otherwise, the fans needed to keep it from melting into a pile of slag will scoot it across the desk when they spin up.

Re:Hard to believe

[rossdee]

You position the fans pointing upward, that keeps the machine firmly on the desk

Re:$11K? Another sites says $14K

[Ixokai]

You, sir, are daring to bring facts to a gunfight.

The audacity!

Re: Hard to believe

[G-forze]

I bet you're one of those guys that use a pirated version of Photoshop to crop your camera phone pics at home, and then demand that your employer drops 4k on a PS license, because "GIMP is sooo useless, it doesn't even have the contrast settings in the same menu as I'm used to!".