<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>glup</author><text>“If you think the computer is expensive, you’re going to completely lose it when you find out the salary of the boffin who will put it to good use. Or, more mind-numbing yet, the cost of having neither.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>The 1987 Mac II released at $5,498, $12,125 adjusted for inflation.&lt;p&gt;Granted, that included a monitor.&lt;p&gt;IMO these things are designed for companies like Pixar, Disney, and aerospace, the &amp;quot;if you have to ask, you can&amp;#x27;t afford it&amp;quot; world.</text></item><item><author>bluedino</author><text>The thing the Mac Pro does is magically make the price of every other computer look that much better.&lt;p&gt;$6000 for a computer? Johnson, that&amp;#x27;s insane.&lt;p&gt;What about $4999 for an iMac Pro? It comes with a display.&lt;p&gt;Great, order it!&lt;p&gt;What about $2499 for a Mac Mini with 32GB and 1TB SSD?&lt;p&gt;Great, order it!&lt;p&gt;What about $2499 for a Macbook Pro?&lt;p&gt;Great, order it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Mac Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/design/</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>Junk_Collector</author><text>Aerospace has been going heavily towards gpu accelerated simulation via CUDA, so the lack  of NVIDIA support kind of kills the market potential there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>The 1987 Mac II released at $5,498, $12,125 adjusted for inflation.&lt;p&gt;Granted, that included a monitor.&lt;p&gt;IMO these things are designed for companies like Pixar, Disney, and aerospace, the &amp;quot;if you have to ask, you can&amp;#x27;t afford it&amp;quot; world.</text></item><item><author>bluedino</author><text>The thing the Mac Pro does is magically make the price of every other computer look that much better.&lt;p&gt;$6000 for a computer? Johnson, that&amp;#x27;s insane.&lt;p&gt;What about $4999 for an iMac Pro? It comes with a display.&lt;p&gt;Great, order it!&lt;p&gt;What about $2499 for a Mac Mini with 32GB and 1TB SSD?&lt;p&gt;Great, order it!&lt;p&gt;What about $2499 for a Macbook Pro?&lt;p&gt;Great, order it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Mac Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/design/</url></story>