Red Mac Pro by Apple Inc. Sells for $977,000
A Red Mac Pro that looks a million bucks and costs nearly as much. Jonathan (Jony) Ive, Design VP, Apple and Marc Newson customised Apple Inc’s newest computer, in stunning red colour, for the RED auction. This work of art commanded a massive $977000 (710,582 EUR) at Sotheby’s auction in New York. Earnings from auction will advance towards a global fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. The Red Mac Pro is 25 cms. tall and 16.8 cms. in diameter. It weighs about 5 Kgs.
Made in red anodised aluminium , the Red Mac Pro is the only one of its kind, ever made. It was expected to fetch between $40k-60k but sold nearly 16 times higher, for nearly a million dollars!!
The Red Mac Pro has all the super powers that the new Mac Pro flaunts. It has dual workstation graphics cards, dual AMD FirePro workstation. Super fast flash storage. High performance I/O. Powered by Xeon E5 processors. A well machined and polished enclosure, houses the best in technology, in a jaw dropping design.
The lucky Apple fan boy/girl who has won the Red Mac Pro, is sure to look more at the gorgeous machine than the attached retina display.
The Red auction sold several unique gadgets and art pieces designed and put together by Jonathan Ive, Mark Newson and U2 frontman Bono. Another item from Apple – a solid real gold Apple earpods earned an unbelievable $461000. However, the Red Mac Pro was the fourth largest earner at the Sotheby’s auction evening. Total earning of the Red auction is $12.9 million.
