Apple’s all new iMac Pro staring at $4999, available in December 2017
Posted on 12/12/2017 9:59:52 AM PST by Swordmaker
“Apple said Tuesday that the new iMac will be available on December 14,” Todd Haselton reports for CNBC. “The news was confirmed in an e-mail from Apple that was sent to customers.”
“Earlier, the company’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller said in an interview that the company’s iMac Pro would launch in the next couple of days,” Haselton reports. “Apple announced the iMac Pro, its most powerful desktop computer to date, back in June.”
The all-new iMac Pro, with its 27-inch Retina 5K display, up to 18-core Xeon processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation, is the most powerful Mac Apple has ever made. Featuring a new space gray enclosure, iMac Pro packs serious performance for advanced graphics editing, virtual reality content creation and real-time 3D rendering. iMac Pro starts at $4,999.
Apple’s all new iMac Pro staring at $4999, available in December 2017
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18-core Xeon processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation
Super processor capability. I’m surprised they went with the existing 27” 5K display. It’s really nice, but with that kind of horsepower, they could have gone with a larger display.
Apple debuts iMac Pro with beefy specs, real ports, $5K starting price
Posted Jun 5, 2017 by Devin Coldewey
Hardcore Mac fans may have had their fingers crossed for the return of the Mac Pro, but an extra “i” slipped in there somehow, and Apple instead has produced an iMac Pro. It’s a wallet-busting all-in-one workstation, and it looks handsome and sinister in a dark grey finish.
The iMac Pro has more or less the same look and feel as the 27-inch, 5K iMac we first saw in 2015 (though now it’s more like the $5K iMac, am I right?). But the engineers at Apple have once again reinvented the thermal qualities of the case — hopefully a little more carefully this time — in order to accommodate some hot new specs.
You get an Intel Xeon processor and, depending on how much you love cores, you get 8, 10 or 18 of them. The GPU is a Radeon Vega setup with up to 16 GB of VRAM — great for developers, especially in VR. Perhaps excessive is the up to 128 GB of system RAM you can get, but I’m sure someone out there is saying “finally!”
The one spec that didn’t really impress is the storage. A 4 terabyte SSD will fill up mighty fast if you’re really doing the HD video editing and game development Apple expects you to. External drives, NAS units and all that other stuff will be must-have add-ons.
Considerately, there is a nice little spread of ports on the back:
That’s your SDXC port, 4 USB 3 ports, 4 Thunderbolt (not Lightning) ports, Ethernet and — is that a headphone jack? Courageous!
It’s a nod to the professionals who love Macs but were dismayed by the recent MacBook Pro refresh making a clean sweep of all the “legacy” ports — i.e. ports used by millions in industries where “legacy” hardware and software is deeply embedded. Had Apple released an iMac Pro with 8 Lightning ports I think there might have been riots.
The price for this beast of a computer starts at $4,999 for a base configuration and, as you might imagine, rises precipitously from there. (Apple was careful to compare it to similarly priced workstations, not all-in-ones or ordinary desktops.)
“That iMac pro really is pretty badass,” said Tim Cook after the reveal. It ships in December.
You can add several.
I guess using my sony with the hotwire is obsolete now.
I’m wondering what market they’re targeting. They have a kick-ass machine with the Mac Pro, which you can then plug into a display(s) of your choice. I kept expecting them to come out with their own standalone hi-res display or the Mac Pro, but they haven’t.
One week with Apple’s iMac Pro: Completely sealed, non-upgradeable, and super powerful“iMac Pro has been in the house for a week – this has been my experience so far!” Marques Brownlee writes on YouTube.
Apple’s powerful new iMac Pro launches the general public on December 14th.
Brownlee tested a 3GHz 10-core Intel Xeon W iMac Pro with 128GB DDR4 RAM, Radeon Pro Vega 16GB HBM2 memory, and a 2TB SSD. iMac Pro is a completely sealed computer, so the specs you order are the specs you’ll be using. Choose wisely, Padawans.
The all-new iMac Pro, with its 27-inch Retina 5K display, up to 18-core Xeon processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation, is the most powerful Mac Apple has ever made. Featuring a new space gray enclosure, iMac Pro packs serious performance for advanced graphics editing, virtual reality content creation and real-time 3D rendering. iMac Pro starts at $4,999.
MacDailyNews Take: For the right type of user, iMac Pro is the stuff of which dreams are made.
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Golly Gee Whiz, all that for $4999, or is this just a blatant case of Free Advertisement for Apple. I would guess the Advertisement since the base configuration is not listed. More copy-paste gobbletygoop. I would imagine 22 Teraflops and 18 core's will be in the $20K range.
If my boss came to me and wanted a Windows PC version of this computer I could build one and save him a grand and it would have better graphics. Each year we could swap a few parts out and keep it top of the line. By the time it came time to buy a new Mac to replace this iMac Pro we would have saved thousands of dollars.
Color me not impressed...
Yes but the Windows machine would still take 15 hours to download and install the Fall Creators Update.
I had Mac Pros until my last one died, I’ve replaced it with a 2012 Mac Mini with an SSD and 1 TB HDD, which has served me well. My 2003 Dell monitor just died and Dell sent me a lovely new one in 24 hours.
If you buy an iMac, but ESPECIALLY if you spend $5000+ on one, WTF do you do with it if the panel dies? Or a component dies?
Throw it out?
It’s ridiculous.
Hard to believe I paid almost $3’ppp for my IBM PC in the early 80’s.
$3,000. Sorry
Mac since 2011.
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