alt Hacker NewsApple could probably sell a machine starting at $10,000 if they architected it as the sole place one’s Private Cloud Compute [1] ran.
It would need a path to a $2,500 machine, I think. But this is a niche I don’t think another consumer-facing brand could do like Apple.
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The out-of-stock $6000 M3 Ultra Mac Studios with 800GB+ memory bandwidth are going for $24,000 on eBay, so yes definitely
Ages ago, back when the Macs would come out, my co-workers and I would take a bit of time to configure the most expensive possible configuration --- time was, it was pretty easy to hit six figures, but over time, that has gradually come down.
Apples on stage use cases for their hardware and software makes me wonder if they actually use computers over there, or what a "job" at apple entails.
I am unsure that apple themselves understand why their hardware (top end & bottom end) has been so successful, without this understanding leaning into these use cases isn't really going to be possible.
Our company would buy at least 10 of those instantly.
Bring back xServe!
But that would be more for enterprise usage. I cannot imagine a personal computing usage which can justify a 10k machine.
How many of these 'consumer' customers would they get for $10,000 and how would they reach their Apple-typical gigantic margin with that?
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Very few brands have such a distortion field.
I asked an Apple (via a sales rep who visited our company to showcase in internal iPad healthcare app) to please do this for iCloud when iCloud Drive was in-development. We would have easily paid $50,000 for a rack-able Mac Pro you could point "managed" devices at.
Apple simply cannot comprehend the ask.