New Mac Pro Deliveries Begin, European Orders 'Assembled in China'

Shame assembly for Europe was not done in Cork, Ireland. Many of my older Macs were assembled there from my Power Macintosh 8600 to G5 Quad.

Even custom spec iMacs were assembled there until very recently (or still are?) so sad to see they couldn't make better use of the Cork plant here.

11k for a base computer... yikes..

you’ve obviously never used a professional workstation. My first was a Silicon Graphics Indigo system, circa 1995, costing $45,000 in 1995 dollars. $75k equivalent today.

And this so-called “pro” computer can’t even play RE2 remake or RDR2. Can’t even use it to stream my Twitch show. My gaming rig DESTROYS this pathetic excuse for a computer.

gamers are obviously not the target market.

Interesting that a product assembled in and shipped from China, costs a UK buyer £2,000 more for the base Mac Pro and XDR Display (with stand) than it does for a US customer.

#Robbed

That is just untrue. A base Mac Pro is £5,499, an XDR is £4,599 and the stand is £949. So £11,047 including VAT or £9205.83 excluding VAT. In the US, a base Mac Pro is $5,999, an XDR is $4,999 and the stand is $999. So $11,997 excluding sales tax, which is £8,993.07 meaning that the difference in cost is £212.76 or 2.3%, which is more in line with the small extra profit margin Apple usually adds for markets outside of the US in order to factor in currency value fluctuations.

I would be very surprised if any person in the market for a Mac Pro, nay, any grown up in the UK, would struggle to understand the concepts of sales tax or VAT so it seems you are just out to complain and be negative for no apparent reason.

Interesting that a product assembled in and shipped from China, costs a UK buyer £2,000 more for the base Mac Pro and XDR Display (with stand) than it does for a US customer.

#Robbed

More likely it's a tax thing. In the US taxes are added after

And this so-called “pro” computer can’t even play RE2 remake or RDR2. Can’t even use it to stream my Twitch show. My gaming rig DESTROYS this pathetic excuse for a computer.

...you have a gaming computer with a processor that beats an octa-core xeon and more than 32gb of RAM? and you had a need for purchasing ECC ram? (i really dont think so.)

whoa there daddy warbucks, you got completely taken for a run at checkout because not only are those specs unnecessary, anything more than that is wasted space.

something you missed along the way when you badgered some poor friend of yours to build a PC or whichever company you purchased it from, is that a computer used for gaming is not necessarily also a computer used for professional work.

you also entirely missed the part that someone buying a computer like this really, really, and i mean REALLY does not care at all for the ability to play the remake of a 10+ year old title, or read dead redemption. and if they really wanted to, they could install a bootcamp partition and probably do it pretty effectively.

im also going to wager your twitch show doesnt even come up on anyone's radar if you're having to post about it on macrumors.

tl;dr - the extent of your computer knowledge is below basic if you think that the lack of gaming ability has any reflection on the usability or overall value of this machine.