[dayglored]

I'll be curious to know who and how many "who"s end up with this box. Gotta be high-end engineering and graphic design folks, right?

The "MAX" specs boggle my mind:

• 18 Xeon cores
• 128GB of ECC main RAM
• 16GB of graphics RAM, 11 Teraflop GPU
• 4TB of SSD
• 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports
• 10Gb Ethernet

So okay, that box has gotta be over $10K. How much of that is in the $5K starter edition?

[itsahoot]

So okay, that box has gotta be over $10K. How much of that is in the $5K starter edition?

Yeah but I can buy a pc for 300 bucks.......blah, blah, blah. </s>

I doubt if that starting model will in contain half of the specs you posted. Big buck for sure but for those that don't remember the Apple The Lisa was first introduced on January 19, 1983 and cost US$9,995 ...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

[Swordmaker]

The "MAX" specs boggle my mind:

• 18 Xeon cores
• 128GB of 2666MHz DDR4 ECC RAM memory
• Radeon Pro Vega 64 graphics processor with 16GB of HBM2 memory— 11 Teraflop GPU or 22 Teraflop GPU
• 4TB of SSD
• 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports
• 10Gb Ethernet

So okay, that box has gotta be over $10K. How much of that is in the $5K starter edition?

I corrected some of your list of maxed out specs above. I out the corrections in bold print.

The Basic $4999 package gets you the following differences:

• 8 Xeon Core intel Processor
• 32GB of 2666MHz DDR4 RAM memory
• Radeon Pro Vega 56 graphics processor with 8GB of HBM2 memory— 8 Teraflop GPU or 16 Teraflop GPU
• 1TB of SSD
• 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports (no change)
• 10Gb Ethernet (no change)

[usconservative]

Problem: What software is going to use 18 cores? Answer: NONE. Probably not any in the near future either.

I have an 8 core PC at home with 32GB of memory and haven't seen anything use all 8 cores.

Buying a PC/Mac with so many cores is the equivalent of buying a Bugatti Veyron and being stuck in city traffic with it. All that power and speed but nowhere to go!

Not sure who pays for that kind of power to sit unused on their desktop, maybe people with more money than brains?