[mikestew]

Why is it that nearly every “I can build a better Mac Pro than Apple for less” article just hand-waves away the Xeon part. What, never occurred to anyone that Xeons might cost more for a reason? “I don’t need a Xeon.” Then you don’t a professional version of an Apple desktop.

[jjeaff]

Xeons are more expensive for partially the same reasons apple is more expensive. Branding. I can't think of any reason to need Xeon or ECC on a workstation. And the legitimate usecase for needing them would have to make up less than 1% of those actually purchasing an iMac pro.

[thesmallestcat]

It's unreal that these will move at 5000. Assuming you don't need Xeon (which requires ECC) you can build a machine just as good for half that, easily.