Getting Apple to upgrade your MacPro can be quite pricey. Hopefully, people are beginning to recognize that upgrading the parts in your Mac (or PC) is pretty simple!

Peace,
Parris Whittingham

I recently got a Mac Pro, and I’m pretty glad that I went with the base model. Any of these upgrades I want can be gotten cheaper after market.

lol that’s funny

Had my Mac Pro with 8800GT for 2 months know and I love it, it’s better than my Dell XPS desktop i’m glad I sold it to get this awesome machine 8-Core’s baby

I have a new Harpertown Mac Pro at home with the 8800 GT. Cost me $180 to BTO it (education price). This card is FAST! And it’s $100 less than the 1900 - which was the 8800GT’s predecessor when bought an add-on. In the 2.66 Mac Pro I have at work, I believe it cost my employer $300-350 to BTO the 1900.

The problem with the author’s complaint about $100 (implying Apple’s greed) is the author seems to forget this is the price of a smaller market, Apple has to pay for driver development, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. (So says a bunch of hardware developers who refuse to write Mac drivers for their products.)

For a card that’s designed for computers Apple no longer sells, that’s significant, if you ask me. This card is for older Mac Pros that can’t use the first 8800GT that was BTO as of January 2008 (and didn’t ship until the third week of February). How many graphics card manufacturers come out with cards for computers that don’t sell any more? Answer me that. Then tell me about Apple’s greed.

Sure Eric, you have a point… but the real question would still be if macs really need “special” PCI Express 2.0 video cards when it leads to things like this.