Color me suprised!

[nOw2]

Bull%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!. Of course the advertisers would have you believe that. But, that exactly why we ignore the ads....

As someone who regularly specs PCs and servers to over £5000 ($8000?), the Mac Pro looks good value indeed.

[Matt_H]

@ persia

That picture illustrates my point about lack of internal expansion perfectly! Thanks for sharing

[nicholas]

@ persia

That picture illustrates my point about lack of internal expansion perfectly! Thanks for sharing

To be fair to Apple, an external cage would solve that rats nest of wires and boxes problem.

[Matt_H]

To be fair to Apple, an external cage would solve that rats nest of wires and boxes problem.

Unfortunately, I don't see anyone manufacturing any Thunderbolt-interface mini-towers with PCI-E slots and drive bays...

[nicholas]

Unfortunately, I don't see anyone manufacturing any Thunderbolt-interface mini-towers with PCI-E slots and drive bays...

Not yet but I'm sure someone will make them even if Apple don't.

[takemehomegrandma]

@ persia

That picture illustrates my point about lack of internal expansion perfectly! Thanks for sharing

I'd make an "educated" guess (based on my own reflections from seeing my own computers throughout time as well as the workstations I work with, has worked with in the past, and those my colleges and friends work with in their respective companies and at home), that 90-99% of the internal slots and connectors in the general PC is completely unused. Even the need for internal hard drives has diminished, in favor of NAS devices, even in peoples homes. You have a very fast, 256GB SSD with operating system and all you applications, and the data on a NAS. A raided/mirrored 3TB NAS where everyone in the family (according to their respective account privileges) can reach everything (from desktops, laptops, smart TV's, smart phones, tablets and whatever), where all photos, videos and movies, music, and other bulk storage resides, is so much better.

[tone007]

This case is not compatible with Motorola (my fish.)

[trekiej]

Does anyone have a picture of an A1200 and all its modular gadgets?
What is old is new again.

[Nlandas]

For that kind of money you can build one hell of an expandable DELL PowerEdge server with SAS RAID, higher end dual video cards, redundant power supplies,  etc. but it won't look like a little trashcan.

For $5000USD you can build one fast and expandable desktop PC.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

For that kind of money you can build one hell of an expandable DELL PowerEdge server with SAS RAID, higher end dual video cards, redundant power supplies, etc. but it won't look like a little trashcan.

That's exactly what I was thinking. For that kind of money you're going to have something with at least a half-dozen hard drives running in RAID, dual processors with at least 16 cores, and a heck of a lot more internal expansion options than that thing. It would be noisy, however, and not very compact. But I don't really care about that since I sit right next to the server room.
 
Although previous poster was right, it would look good sitting next to a Walker! :banana:
 
PS - love the fish tank!  

[Duce]

Do a quick and dirty build up of the components and their prices and the new Mac Pro isn't actually all that overpriced, especially for an Apple product.

[commodorejohn]

Do a quick and dirty build up of the components and their prices and the new Mac Pro isn't actually all that overpriced, especially for an Apple product.

I seem to recall the same argument being made with regard to the CUSA C64x...