Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Oct 2009 12:51 UTC
A couple of years ago, a professor at my university had a very interesting thought exchange with the class I was in. We were a small group, and I knew most of them, they were my friends. Anyway, we had a talk about language purism - not an unimportant subject if you study English in The Netherlands.
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Kudos for doing the numbers. You cheated just a little bit.
Apple charges a high upgrade price on the CPUs. By bumping from 2.26 to 2.6 GHz you add $1400 to the system.
With everything the same but keeping the slower CPUs I get $3,639 for the Mac Pro.
I also don't think you found the Nehalem Xeons for that price at ZipZoomFly. I see 2.26 E5520 for $382 each.
And no operating system yet, but lets say you get a OEM copy of Win7 for $100.
There is also warranty, service, assembly, burn-in testing, etc.
Probably up to around $3,000 like you said.
So it's $3,000'ish vs. $3,639.
And that's where people get the idea that the real cost of OS X is about $500.