Anthony is a beast. I love how Linus is laughing while Anthony talks about the lengths he had to go to in order to set up the Hackintosh:
The maxed up upgrade Mac Pro one will be able to order
is $35K before you count the GPU(s) and that $5K display. So we're talking over $40K here:
https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/
I don't know about you, but if I was paying $40K+ for a personal computer, I would expect it to have the best consumer/prosumer processor in the world (Intel Xeon Platinum 9282). That would actually be worth...well, Intel won't tell us how much it costs, but we can be certain the MSRP is north of $18K. Is this in the Mac Pro? Not even close:
Mac Pro processors (Cascade Lake 3000 series Xeon-W):
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2400/intel-rolls-out-cascade-lake-xeon-w-processors/
Full Intel Xeon Cascade Lake product line:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14146/intel-xeon-scalable-cascade-lake-deep-dive-now-with-optane
Mac Pro Processors & MSRP
- 8-core Mac Pro ----> Intel Xeon W-3223 ($749)
- 12-core Mac Pro --> Intel Xeon W-3235 ($1398)
- 16-core Mac Pro --> Intel Xeon W-3245 ($1999)
- 24-core Mac Pro --> Intel Xeon W-3265 ($3349)
- 28-core Mac Pro --> Intel Xeon W-3275 ($4449)
Apple has always had a steeper premium on its desktop offerings, but it's heartbreaking to see what has become of the company in the past several years. This is ridiculous. You can build that baseline machine for around $1500. That's a 400% premium. Apple is soaring into loan shark territory with these markups.