Maxed-out Mac Pro loses 98% of its value with Apple Trade In after costing US$52,199 three years earlier

[Redaktion]

Apple's ruthless Trade In service has come under the spotlight after a tech journalist discovered that a Mac Pro that cost US$52,199 three years earlier was given a current trade-in value of just US$970. Disconcertingly, the same Mac Pro was apparently still available via the Apple store at the identical original price of US$52,199.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Maxed-out-Mac-Pro-loses-98-of-its-value-with-Apple-Trade-In-after-costing-US-52-199-three-years-earlier.682635.0.html

[NikoB]

Keep supporting Apple with your wallets! Apple wallets are getting fatter, yours are getting empty. Hahaha.

[kek]

I'm pretty sure that Mac Pro is just vaporware. I really doubt Apple sold more than 100 units of that thing.

It's tremendously bad value, and at some point, you will be better off doing the same workload on Linux and using hardware that has actual value.

[NikoB]

The cost of any equipment consists of the cost price (and the lowest possible retail price) of components. Plus, some intellectual property that allows all these components to work smoothly, stably and for a long time.

The cost of components of these MacPros is 10 times lower than the declared price, this is easily proven.

Thus, Apple only legally significantly proved to all the inhabitants of the planet that its intellectual property and solutions are worth nothing in practice. They valued them so.

I advise everyone to bookmark this news, especially professional lawyers. And when Apple's lawyers in court yell that the intellectual rights and property of their employing company are very expensive - just give Apple this decision to the court and the case will be won automatically. =)

[Detroit]

Hardcore Pawn??? They will help you!!!

[Scott smith]

This is the greatest example of silliness in human history. 

[Miguel Carvalho]

Sorry for my "violence" but any person who buys a desktop workstation from Apple for such an aberrant price, deserves even worse!
Three years ago, many people including me would have prepared you a PC Workstation ready to dual-boot Windows and MacOS with the best components available, higher performance, redundancy and flexibility, at a much more reasonable price.
Today you could sell it for way more than Crapple offered you in rebate
When those machines were launched, I loved some aspects of the design and originality. Topped out at 53 or 54000€ was a move that could only work with iSheep. This is one of the reasons why I never bought any single Apple product, despite having experienced many.

[Mr Majestyk]

Any fool that paid that much for a desktop computer deserves to be decimated on resale. This is the most overpriced rip-off in computing history.

[Bill]

I must have done technical writing for the wrong people!  There's no way I could ever have afforded, or for that matter justified, a $52,000 personal computer.  I never needed a computer for writing and illustrating that cost even 1/10th that much.

I don't blame Apple too much.  If someone walks up to you with a basket full of money and says, "here take this," it would be kind of silly not to take it.  But do kindly give them an ornamental computer as acknowledgement of their generosity.

[will]

Yes the loss is extreme but thankfully these days we have other avenues to sell used electronics. I'm sure someone on eBay would pay above retail for an Apple product.

[Alex91m]

This is hilarious. I worked for apple as a tier 2 when this mac debuted. I can say i have all pcs and samsung phones and apple is garbage. I can build the same windows pc with same specs for a 3rd of the price. Anyone who buys into apples premium garbage is an idiot and deserves to be ripped off. Apple is the garbage of the computer world. Go bankrupt and die apple. Nobody who is anyone important cares about you and if they do go buy a cryphone and cry about it iphones and apple suck.

[Jm]

The depreciation is as ridiculous as the over the top mean girl, hissy fit comments that follow the story. This is common for computer hardware but not to this degree. Anyone that thinks these machines are bought for word processing is completed out of their league.

[Eddy boy]

You buy hardware based on your software needs. I bet if that was a creative workstation it's already paid for itself. I've spent that much on workstations and usually make my investment back in about 2 to three projects. I have no care as to the trade in value of my tools, they are already a zero impact asset. So crying over trade in value is ridiculous, if you overspent and need more trade in value, That's on you,

[evilfrog]

kekw apple sheeps continue to buy crapple product lol

[Coca Cola Zero]

I must have done technical writing for the wrong people!  There's no way I could ever have afforded, or for that matter justified, a $52,000 personal computer.  I never needed a computer for writing and illustrating that cost even 1/10th that much.

I don't blame Apple too much.  If someone walks up to you with a basket full of money and says, "here take this," it would be kind of silly not to take it.  But do kindly give them an ornamental computer as acknowledgement of their generosity.

This is not for technical writing, it's for high end rendering/3d/video/photo or other resource-intensive applications like machine learning development.