Update from July 3 below, post originally posted on July 2.
You may be expecting it for the iPhone SE or MacBook Air, but Apple has decided to bid you on the Mac Pro, slashing the price of the powerful computer by more than $ 2000. The catch? You will have to purchase it through Apple’s renewal page.
FILE – In this June 3, 2019, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about Mac Pro at Apple. … [+]
July 3 Update: Those of you who want to buy a new Mac Pro should take note of a new GPU setup now available. Collected by Samuel Axon of Ars Technica, you can equip the MacOS desktop beast with AMD’s Radeon Pro 5500X. More powerful options are available, but this is a $ 200 upgrade to the 580X base:
“The W5500X is a lower-cost alternative to the W5700X, which itself was recently added as an option, this April only, in fact. A key difference between the two is memory bandwidth: the 8GB W5500X offers 224GB / s while the 16GB W5700X offers 448GB / s. In addition, the W5500X has 24 compute units and 1,536 stream processors, while the W5700X offers much more performance at 40 CUs and 2,560 stream processors. It makes a big difference in the performance and a modest difference in price. “
Unlike the ‘one size fits all’ approach for consumer laptops that have minimal configuration options, Apple continues to offer the option of tailoring the Mac Pro to the exact needs of the end user.
Apple has a number of Mac Pro machines for sale at the renovation store, with the lowest model prices at $ 11,469.
While the online Apple Store Renewal page isn’t always widely promoted, Apple has offered refurbished units for many years. Consumer products generally see a discount of the order of fifteen percent. As for the units and what has happened, I leave it to Apple to explain:
“All Apple certified refurbished products complete a rigorous refurbishment process that includes comprehensive testing that meets the same functional standards as new Apple products. Your refurbished device is truly” like new “.”
More importantly, you still get the same one-year warranty that would come with a new machine, and you can still add Apple Care.
People take photos of the Mac Pro in the showroom at the Apple World Developers Conference … [+]
The restored Mac Pro comes with a 2.5GHz 28-core Xeon W processor, 1.5TB of DDR4 memory, 2TB of storage and two Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards. All of that will return you $ 43,859 compared to $ 45,999 if you bought the same new specified unit, a savings of about five percent.
And if that’s not enough to tempt you, Apple will release the power cord for free.
Now read more about the $ 700 wheels you can buy for Mac Pro …
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