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At least they offer free returns! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Only 5 left in stock...better get it before they're gone. 
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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If it's a real color calibrated screen (for photo or video) , it can add up quickly.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: If it's a real color calibrated screen (for photo or video) , it can add up quickly.
Thanks for mentioning that. I was curious where the cost was coming from.
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If you get a 2 TB hard drive, instead of 1 TB, the price drops to $2949!
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But doing that also changes the processor. Probably changes other options as well, but I didn't look too closely
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Aside from the parts, a big part of that price is probably this: Delta E<1, Pantone Validated. That means the color differential between pixels/colors is imperceptible to the human eye (perfect color is dE=0; the minimum perceptible differential is 1). Pantone Validated means it has exceptional color accuracy according to the Pantone Matching System of colors.
I'm not super informed on the details of all this but in general any high-end displays for artists are super expensive from what I've seen.
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That's got to be a mistake, because if you choose the 4 TB hard drive, the price goes down to $4,999.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Select the 4TB hard-disk and the display goes back to 17" FHD
15.6" 4K UHD is only possible with 1TB
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I still mourn my beloved EeePC 701. It still runs, but by today standards it's more crawling than running.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The price comes from the screen and GPU. The Nvidia Quadro series of GPU's are specifically designed for video rendering, both real-time and post. The CPU and memory speed and amount of memory contribute, but it's primarily the GPU, screen, and availability.
NVIDIA QUADRO RTX 6000 (Desktop Version)[^]
[EDIT]
For spelling, or my lack there of. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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$3,870.11 Shipping & Import Fees
The shipping/import fees alone on that thing are more expensive than any computer I've ever bought.
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For me any two, possibly three. My dad spent a comparable amount, 30 years ago though.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Well, in hindsight, I've probably spent $2500 on my most expensive PC ever...which has to be back 25+ years ago. With inflation, I'm not sure if that exceeds that $3.8K figure.
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Unh? I don't think so.
Is this the way things are going?
Puzzled and dismayed.
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Slow Eddie wrote: Is this the way things are going?
I really hope not, because I'm super cheap & I'm accustomed to hardware prices always going down, not up.
Plus, I would never need that kind of graphics solution.
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Anything > 500 from asus I'd be suspect. I'm looking at my wife's lightly used laptop. The entire touchpad has delaminated from the top part of the laptop. The original install of the OS was so bad, well... but 10k? Insanity. Oh, don't buy Samsung appliances or laptops either.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I am no expert on tracking pixels, but it seems to me these little pests are placed somewhere in the white background of web pages or emails. Because the background is white, these pixels are white so they would blend into the background and be virtually invisible.
But I like to run a dark theme on my browser and Outlook. Suddenly the bright white pixel sparkles like a little diamond against the dark background. Has anybody else noticed this? I find it a little annoying that good companies resort to this kind of spying! 
It seems to be very prevalent. I get it in the emails from my chemist and on websites like the company that maintains our air conditioner.
I would love comments from members who know more about the topic than I do.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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- I don't know if any internet-based email readers support this, but Outlook (the office suite version) allows you to NOT download pictures as a default.
- If the people you do business with allow it, change your profile so that they send you mail in text format, rather than HTML format. You may miss out on the fancy graphics, but you will also miss out on the tracking pixels.
- If all else fails, you can always install a HOSTS file like the one provided here. This redirects all requests to download from known adware / tracking sites to 0.0.0.0, which effectively disables them. The problem is that you need to keep this updated on a fairly regular basis for it to do any good; the ad / tracking guys are like cancer - they metastasise all the time.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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DNS sinkhole like Pi-hole or similar is another way to cover your whole network, and makes updates to block lists easier, as well as custom allow/block list entries if needed.
I run mine inside a docker container on a Raspberry Pi 4 along with a few other containers, works a treat!
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Thunderbird also supports that (image blocking) and javascript/cookie blocking which you should also activate.
Same thing goes for the browser.
Personally, I only activate some cookies/javascript for sites I (maybe naively) trust.
On some sites, having javascript blocked is even an improvement since you can read all the text, although unformatted, while with it active you get a lot of images/videos/advertising that, besides slowing everything down to a crawl, prevent you from reading until you accept their cookies or sign up.
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As Daniel suggested simply set your email client to show plain text and just ignore the HTML gibberish that pops up.
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all your pixels belong to us! 
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It only works because the senders are using white tracking pixels.
Do an invisible tracking pixel (aka a png with zero alpha channel) I strongly suspect light or dark mode, you won't see the tracking pixel.
The safest way is to simply block all images from downloading without permission, and then assume that if you give the images permission to download, then the other side knows you've read the email.
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