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The Register decided to look for what other wheels we could get for $699. To do so we looked up data on the best-selling car in the USA and UK, which taught us that the Toyota Camry and Ford Fiesta topped the charts. We easily found Camry wheels for US$108 a pop and Fiesta wheels for £85 apiece.

If you draw their attention to it, Apple's going to sue them for rounded corners.

I wonder if they are user serviceable when they clog up with cat fur, fluff and pizza crumbs?

Still there is always the option of using the services of a pimply genius to get you rolling again.

At $175/corner don't wheel it wong.

User serviceable? For Apple products? Surely you jest, my good man.

They're the only wheels that can connect to the chassis via the proprietary iAxle fitting?

Also, considering the price, they're not very functional. apparently they lack a brake mechanism. If your smooth floor isn't perfectly flat, away rolls your expensive Mac Pro. Needs matching iChocks (a bargain at £199).

Sometimes I think cycling is the new Hi-Fi in the sense of "How Much?"

there is definitely some cross-over. Cycle-tech is very fond of religious wars and received wisdom/voodoo and snake oil. However, if cycling is the new anything, it is the new golf as any fule kno

C'mon, cycling has been rife with religious wars like forever. Campa vs. Sachs, Campa vs. Shimano (also vs. SRAM, nowadays), Steel of various sorts with magical proerties, carbon tubes glued into metal lugs, aluminium vs. titanium vs. carbon, different layups, ultra narrow tyres and now wide tyres on the road, MTBs coming up (and staying, a bit like gravel bikes, which are Cyclocross bikes for whimps ;p)... tubeless tyres, sewn-ups (collets, or tubular tyres), clinchers, different rim diameters, rebranding the 700c (or 622 ETRTO) as 29er...

Fun: Passing people in a race on expensive bikes while riding a cheaply bought, not very well restored old french road bike. It's the legs for us mere mortals that make the most difference (but some of the really high end stuff looks really great, not sure how it rides, don't have the money for it or don't want to spend it)

Don't forget the stupid prices of some 'E-Bikes' (circa $10,000 a pop).

Then there is all the Lycra that is mandatory and you have to pay through the nose for just to allow you sleek and lithe(YMMV ROFL) body to become a human billboard.

Almost a mad as Golfers or should that be gofers?

For some people, an E-Bike makes a great deal of sense, and $10,00 for a new machine is a snip compared with the equivalent new car. Lycra BTW is not mandatory whatever the Daily Fail might tell you.

one of your round objects appears to have dropped off and rolled away

Lycra definitely not mandatory.

Every morning I am out in jeans and if it's chilly a casual jacket from Matalan.

The same lycra clad moron is sweating along the road dodging 40 tonners on his Pinarello whilst I sail past him on my ancient 1980 built Halfords bike on the adjacent cycle path. Us cyclists truly are a brotherhood of utter morons.

I say "brotherhood" because female cyclists don't usually exhibit the same moronic behaviour.

Upvote for the mention of Halfords. I have one. Solid as a rock.

I just wish it was easier to find and fit a Sturmey Archer hub so I can get rid of that new-fangled derailleur nonsense.

Lycra. Indeed, it's prohibited on a mountain bike. That's rule #18

[1]Velominati - the rules

[1] https://www.velominati.com/comment-page-8/

As a keen cyclist who occasionally purchases a new bike, it never fails to surprise me that the extra 20g I have shaved off the weight of my latest rides makes no apparent difference to my speed and remember that it would have been cheaper to lose a little weight myself. Such is human capacity fo self-delusion.....

Ah, the universal law of diminishing returns, the arch-enemy of upper-bound performance in any arena.

'Twas ever thus. I spent my university breaks working in a large cycle shop. Large enough to have a dedicated racing section with a dedicated employee (who raced) staffing it.

This was the mid '80s but allow everything was the big deal, carbon fibre was almost there but hadn't really landed. But the alloys could be made lighter and lighter, at a price. Super light but strong all alloy wheels could set you back a pretty penny and they had to be built up from parts, they didn't come off the shelf. That was usually done for you of course. Building a new hi-spec racer from scratch took a long time.

Things have of course moved on, first came carbon fibre frames.

As long as the implementation isn't rubbish, people will buy them as a status symbol.

As long as the implementation isn't rubbish, people will buy them as a status symbol.

FTFY

This is just the way Apple rolls...

Congratulations, now take your upvote, and get your coat...

Mmm! Apple rolls, I hope they have cinnamon and sultanas in them!

Go home, chivo243, you're drunk.

I am home... working on my apple with out wheels, no beer until Beer O'clock too Still on the clock... Not everyone can be Simon and Stephen!

If you buy a stupidly premium computer then don't be surprised it comes with stupidly premium options.

Some idiot with too much money will buy them!

I thought the price was per wheel, so $699 for four is a steal!

have't listened to Saxon for, well I don't know, what's El Reg's unit of time? the lockdown? the time it takes Trump to flounce?

Cornering is up to 0.3 seconds faster than a normal wheel in standard office conditions, and the extra grip in wet conditions (e.g. coffee spillage on trendy wooden floor) could prevent a dangerous pile up. Tyre life is an average 50 metres of optimum performance, after which you will have to call in the Apple pit crew, as only they can change the tyres safely at a cost of $399 per wheel.

It just an example of Apple filling an obvious gap in their continuum - iPad->Laptop->Desjktop->Luggabel->Rollable

... I have a set of [1]these under my welding table. Good wheels can get spendy. Granted, mine only cost $69/ea ... but I rather think I got what I paid for.

One wonders if the Apple user will think they got what they paid for. Perhaps I should do them a favo(u)r out of the kindness of my heart. I can package and sell an aftermarket upgrade ( [2]these come to mind) for the low, low price of $299.99 ... and I'll even throw in the mounting hardware for free! ($100 shipping and handling charges for North America, call for shipping charges to other countries).

One also wonders why Apple computers need to be moved so often that they require wheels. Don't Apple users understand the proper care and feeding of dust bunnies?

[1] https://www.grainger.com/product/GRAINGER-APPROVED-Kingpinless-Plate-Caster-489C46

[2] https://www.grainger.com/product/GRAINGER-APPROVED-Standard-Plate-Caster-437V29

Someone get Ice Cube to present a series of Pimp My Cheese-grater (or maybe we need to drop that final vowel these days)

... I bet even SnapOn are in awe

I'd be damned if Dabbsy misses this part in his next article !

Expensive for sure however I'm guessing there have been more expensive rim jobs.

Not for the average home user though are they? The cost will get stuffed into some office/IT budget somewhere as half the price of a Dell XPS. There are enough cash rich budget-spending corps out there that will barely blink at 20 sets of these.

Having a nose around and telling friends about McWheels, I have found McFeet - https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXNM2ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-feet-kit

$299 for some stainless steel feet!

I'm sure there's some marketing droid in Apple saying "Hmmm....what could we sell to the rabid fanbois that they will just lap up?"

I put my hands up, I do have an ipod touch (music), iphone (work provided), ipad (watching netflix on the train) and a macbookpro (2010 model used as main laptop) as I treat them as consumer devices that serve a purpose.

I balk at the current prices for non-upgradable macs though and accessories and have no compunction to buy any of them.

...the great Ford Prefect: "Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."

Perhaps they have to pay royalties to the well known Singaporean James Dyson.

Maybe the new wheels are designed to prevent 5G waves from interfering with the inner magical workings of the computer.

"Hello Apple Support, my new Mac Pro has developed a fault and won't boot... no, I haven't got the new apple wheels on it... warranty's invalid you say?"

It'll happen...

If you really want to show your economic clout, why not make your wheels out of toilet paper rolls? What could be spiffier than to show the masses that you not only have it to burn, you have it roll with? You cold slap an Apple log on the hubcaps for extra class.

I'd expect iHover feet. Marty McFly style.

I've just checked the small ads, and you can buy an entire 2002 Golf GTi for £500 in my area.

For that price I expect them to be carved from the bones of Steve Jobs

This is worrying.

I disinterred the garden shredder from the back of the garage & found one of its wheels was missing. Can I afford to get a new one?