[redthrowaway]

The Porsche 918 is a prestige product, though. The jet set and saudi princes can point to the 918 as a status symbol. The Mac Pro doesn't have that going for it.

All hypercars, from the Huayra, to the La Ferrari (gag), to the Veyron are ridiculously impractical. However, that's a feature, not a bug. Their very impracticality cements their position in the hypercar pantheon.

The Mac Pro just doesn't have that cachet. It doesn't give you bragging rights, except among a tiny subset of the population. Even then, they'd likely be more impressed by triple-SLI'd GPUs in a liquid-cooled tower with a ridiculously overclocked CPU.

[jcsiracusa]

Only a tiny subset of the population cares about fast cars. A larger portion cares about expensive cars, of which supercars are only a small subset. Many people are dazzled by wealth. Far fewer know or care anything about performance.