$10,000 Mac Pro @ 667MHz?

Apple’s marketing is really starting to get irritating. Honestly, I can’t stand some of the stupid shit they do.

Take this for example. They just released their new Mac Pros that have support for up to two quad-core Clovertown Xeons. Awesome…but my PC can do that and my server already has two dual-core xeons and it was $2500. Support for 16GB of RAM. Impressive for a 32-bit OS, but my 64-bit Windows has support for 32GB, and so does 64-bit Linux. But where Mac really falls short isn’t in the RAM capacity, it’s in it’s speed.

Right now I’m running 4GB of DDR2 1066MHz RAM in my PC. It’s a nice speed boost from the 800MHz RAM I’ve been using for the last 9 months. So why then, would the almight Mac sport 667MHz RAM? Well, because most people don’t understand it.

Lets face it, most people don’t have any clue that some RAM runs at higher frequencies than others. We still can’t convince them to look at the real-world performance of a CPU as well as the potential gigaflops/s instead of the clock speed. Apple knows this. Why should they bother implementing hardware that their users won’t understand the difference of?

It’s quite frustrating really. I like some of the stuff about Macs, but they’re really no where near the end-all be-all of computing.