<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>This is a game the pro-Apple press loves to play - cherry pick parts for the PC based upon comparison to the often unique part numbers Apple uses (and which they buy in bulk) and ignore arbitrage.&lt;p&gt;How much would a MacPro comparable to this Dell cost?&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Dell Precision T7600 
    $12,697.60 
 
    Two Intel® Xeon® Processors E5-2687W (Eight Core, 3.1GHz, 20M, 8.0 GT&amp;#x2F;s, Turbo+)  
    128GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory,1600MHz, ECC (8 x 16GB DIMMs)  
    Dual 4.0GB NVIDIA® Quadro® K5000, Dual MON, 2 DP &amp;amp; 1 DVI  
    PERC H310 for Dell Precision, SATA&amp;#x2F;SAS 6Gb&amp;#x2F;s, RAID 0&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;10 (8 ports)  
    Dual 512GB, 2.5&amp;quot; SATA 6Gb&amp;#x2F;s Solid State Drive  
    6X Blu-ray Disc (BD-RE) Burner  
    Speakers Dell AX210 Speakers  
    3 Year ProSupport Service with 3 Year NBD Onsite Service after Remote Diagnosis  
    3 Year Accidental Damage Service
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
If the rules of the game were reversed, you&amp;#x27;d have to buy two 64GB MacPros, an external Blu-Ray burner, and go to a third party for a three year accidental damage contract and a third party for three years of Next Business Day onsite service.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sjtgraham</author><text>No &lt;a href=&quot;http://bgr.com/2013/12/26/mac-pro-windows-diy-cost/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bgr.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;mac-pro-windows-diy-cost&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>The Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>josephlord</author><text>Xeon processors don&amp;#x27;t seem to drop in price the way the consumer ones do so you might not save as much as you expect.&lt;p&gt;Edit: It may still be worth buying the base model now and upgrading immediately if the Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m probably going to be buying one of these today so I&amp;#x27;ve been doing a bit of research. Turns out most everything is user replaceable; most importantly, the processor. So you can save your self a fair bit of cash by buying the base model and upgrading later as needed, which is what I intend to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown</title><url>http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>For the whole machine, but a quick check of the configuration on the processor (and &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; the processor):&lt;p&gt;Base system options:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache 
  3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache [Add $500.00] 
  3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache [Add $2,000.00] 
  2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache [Add $3,500.00] 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
[1] seems to be equivalent to the 12-core option at Newegg. So purchased there it&amp;#x27;s $2750, a savings of some $750 (less tax and shipping) versus the upgrade option through Apple. The &lt;i&gt;overall&lt;/i&gt; price is better than a DIY equivalent, but for the components this path can still make a difference.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newegg.com&amp;#x2F;Product&amp;#x2F;Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>sjtgraham</author><text>No &lt;a href=&quot;http://bgr.com/2013/12/26/mac-pro-windows-diy-cost/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bgr.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;mac-pro-windows-diy-cost&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>The Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>josephlord</author><text>Xeon processors don&amp;#x27;t seem to drop in price the way the consumer ones do so you might not save as much as you expect.&lt;p&gt;Edit: It may still be worth buying the base model now and upgrading immediately if the Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m probably going to be buying one of these today so I&amp;#x27;ve been doing a bit of research. Turns out most everything is user replaceable; most importantly, the processor. So you can save your self a fair bit of cash by buying the base model and upgrading later as needed, which is what I intend to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown</title><url>http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778</url></story>