{"id":34732,"date":"2019-12-14T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=34732"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:12:28","slug":"butt-ugly-60k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2019\/12\/14\/butt-ugly-60k\/","title":{"rendered":"Butt ugly. $60k+."},"content":{"rendered":"

Had to get the wheels, too.<\/i><\/p>\n

For an index of all my Mac Pro articles, click here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a new American Express card out named the AMEX Plutonium, and of course they sent me one. It’s a sweet deal and there’s no charge for the radioactivity, which decays quickly. There’s no credit limit and if you spend $1mm a year they waive the annual $50k fee. And the interest rate is only 10% a month, which beats the local Mob’s.<\/p>\n

Well, says, I, better get with the action and earn that freebie, so I decided to splash out on the new Mac Pro. Yup, it’s butt ugly, but I have a mechanic who will gut one of my spare regular Mac Pros and install the hardware inside that elegant box. And he’s only charging $5k to do the work! Too bad he doesn’t take AMEX.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to jolly things along I decided to max out the new MP’s specs, so here’s what I ended up with:<\/p>\n


\nHad to get the Apple monitor – it’s only twice the price of the identical Dell. Loaded her up with 768GB of memory at only 3x the market rate, a snip at $10k.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


\nThe stand is only $1,000 more. Had to have it.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


\nUgly as sin, so I’m having it rehoused.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


\nForget the stock legs. I’m going with the rollers for a mere $400 more.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

I hope it arrives soon as it should allow me to email and play Pong much faster. I also charged a new Rolls and<\/i> a Bentley on the Plutonium – a man needs variety – so now I am well on the way to the free annual fee. I’m going to show the new Roller at local shows with the new Mac Pro in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had to get the wheels, too. For an index of all my Mac Pro articles, click here. There’s a new American Express card out named the AMEX Plutonium, and of course they sent me one. It’s a sweet deal and there’s no charge for the radioactivity, which decays quickly. There’s no credit limit and if … Continue reading Butt ugly. $60k+.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35039,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34732\/revisions\/35039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}