Mac Pro: 4 Million Configurations?
So the Apple site says the Mac Pro has nearly 4 million configurations. Having glanced over the configurations myself that seemed a little high. So I did the math.
I separated out the number of choices for each option and multiplied the numbers together. First, some clarifications.
- I don’t count the size and number of monitors as a configuration option. It is external to the computer and should not be counted as a configuration.
- I reluctantly counted the available application software options since when I buy a computer I consider the configurations of the computer as the sum of the hardware components, not bundled software, but I’ll give them this one.
- Apple care, OS X version or language don’t count. Sorry, I gave you let you count bundled software as a configuration, don’t push it!
So I counted up all of the options for each “configuration” and only came up with over 1.6 million configurations. So how does Apple figure 4 million configurations?
