Of course, but Apple still sells a ton machine with spinning hard drives for premium prices
My argument is their offerings are old, and they want a premium for that old technology
Of course in the $7,000 Mac Pro desktop they use the best of the best, but then again you are paying super top dollar so you should get the best of the best
BTW the Intel PCIe Enterprise class SSD can be had on New Egg for under $800, just priced one out the other day
The real problem is tech advances in general are not going to keep supporting the high end premium price points for high end wintel or MAC’s IMHO. The top of the market is going to drop, particularly in an overall shrinking segment.
With PC’s now becoming most folks secondary computer, behind mobile phones/tablets etc... Few folks will own PC’s in general... the market shrinks to hard core gamers, and developers and others who need more power and interfaces that those types of devices offer.
I think your high end price point will see a general drop, even with newest tech... until some major game changing tech comes along... which it always does, but I don’t know what it will be next.
I don’t buy Mac for saving $$$.
I buy them because they are more secure than Windows machines and are more robust in construction.
BSD Unix is much more secure than Windows (name any version)
Oh and I worked for Intel for 25 years and probably helped design the microprocessor in your system.
Mac Pro is expensive because, one everything is custom.
Second it uses Multi Processor Xeon processors.
Soon to have Dual processor, 36 core.
Your home desktop is probably a max of 6 core but most likely 4 core.