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.
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Yep.. I had an original IBM PC when they first came out. My setup was pushing $5500 all in with a dot matrix printer, and X-Y plotter.
Actually though, the plotter above was not a new purchase and was shifted from the first desktop I used, a Hewlett Packard 9825. The HP9825 was something like a $20K investment (computer upgrades, thermal printer, floppy drive, X-Y plotter) or better put, the company had that much invested in it. I rescued the HP9825 from a dusty corner after it was replaced by a HP9845 as the brains for a HP GC-MS laboratory analyzer. Zero off the shelf programs for it so another engineer and I wrote custom programs for our number crunching needs.
Initially when the IBM PC came out, the company IT group wouldn't let us switch to the IBM. IT’s position is that we needed to switch to the mainframe network, which used VT-100 terminals, for statistics and modeling and quit fooling around with the desktop toys. A friendly competition was arranged. We took a typical data package from pilot plant runs and then ran a time trial on how long it took to input raw data in the computer, set up the software to analyze the data then print out the results. The HP9825 with our custom software completed the time trial plus plotted out multiple regression analysis before the mainframe’s data entry was even complete. I had one of the company's first IBM PCs a month or two later and within a year or two the company had a thousand or two.
One last thought comes to mind - This is opinion and YMMV... Back in this time frame, we didn't buy ready made programs for a task but wrote them. A different world. The IBM PC changed the game as commercial software started dribbling out. Apologies' to Apple and Commodore geeks but that's the was it was. The best executions were not by the major industry players but stuff from the garage programmers. Lotus 123 for spreadsheet overtaken by Quatro Pro (tabs!), which was copied for the UI of MS Excel. Word Perfect for power users copied by IBM Display Write, Volkswriter for the mass of users and again the UI of MS Word copied these to create the UI for MS Word. SAS capability for statistics incorporated into spreadsheet functions and more powerful stand alone programs such as Minitec. Pimavera horsepower for project management replicated into easier to use MS Project and Primavera’s own stand alone core SureTrack (superior to MS Project even in Project's contemporary form). Microsoft has been wildly successful in taking advantage of other's trend setting to polish and integrate others trailblazing into core business and technical software.
I’m with you on the Mac Mini - Love mine. Tiny footprint and it does anything I need it to do. Purchased the super drive with it (cd and dvd’s) and I can use any Monitor I like and works beautifully with my Klipsch THX speaker system. All for under $800.
Seriously, who needs all this horsepower? This isn't targeted at a home user, that's for sure. How many of these do they expect to sell?
I have that exact same mouse — love it! No more cramps from cradling a mouse too.
Apple should come out with an Imac Pro that is not a ridiculous all in one. Separate computer and separate display. Perhaps later. This all-in-one drek impresses the gadget crazed, status crazed Asians and a few Americans.
Maxed out specs for sure. Two years ago I thought I was a hotshot with 8GB ram. My max is 16GB on one computer.
Quite a testimony for the IBM PC. Can you tell me what year your company bought a thousand or two of them? 1983?
It holds a charge for a long time, and I can continue using it while it charges on an ordinary USB cord.
Logitech is the best!
All that RAM and a 4 TB SSD seem like the minimum for Freeping. I’m sure you guys will vouch for that with my wife later.
OT, merry Christmas, Swordmaker, I get my present tonight later and should hopefully be freeping on it! An iPad Pro. Yay!
I purchased my first brand new Wintel post college in 1994, paid 1,700 or something like that for a 386-SX with a 15” CRT if memory served...
Thought it was overpriced then, and it was one of the cheapest systems I could find at the time that could do what I needed it to do.
Your charming and delightful husband who's a wonderful Freeper, well loved, respected and thought of by all who know him here on this wonderful forum have determined he needs a new iMac Pro with 24 Cores, 32GB of memory and a 4TB SSD with that 5k display for his activities here on Free Republic.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could get him one for Christmas and are sure it will greatly enhance his experience here on FR. Surely his wit, wisdom and insights will shine through even more brightly with a new iMac Pro!
Respectfully,
KC Burke's Fan Club.
If they could fold up the stand you could slip it into a carrying case and have a nifty 27” laptop.
#14 or have a single pixel stop working?
A black dot staring back at you!
That’s perfect !!!!!!!!.
I will print that out and put it in an envelope for her to read one morning soon.
My Christmas present to you ... ho ho ho!
I think its best to always give them these gift lists when they wake up groggy and before they have had their coffee. Usually prompts a, ‘Hey Whatever, if you can get it at Target or Goodwill, knock yourself out.’
I think taking her out to a nice dinner, getting her drunk, slipping her a roofie might work better........
Let's see. . . here are the components necessary to attempt to duplicate a basic lowest configured iMac Pro, not counting the suite of software that comes free with every Mac, using off-the-shelf components priced from Intel, Amazon, NewEgg and Crucial to get as close as possible to matching spec-for-spec all you get with Apple for $4995.00:
Obviously, you could go for bottom of the barrel components, and perhaps meet that $1000 cheaper, but that is not equivalent. . . nor it likely would not be a workstation class machine with the latest processors from Intel in it.
They are not unrepairable. Nor are the un-upgradeable. What gave you that idea?
The LCD panel can be replaced in about 45 minutes. . . Also the rear case is removable to access the components. Someone is blowing smoke about it not being serviceable. The RAM is not soldered to the logic board. It's standard SDRAM Look at the photo showing the replaceable RAM, SSD, and even the the graphic card, although not showing in the photo below, can be swapped out. I'd guess it's likely not intended to be a user task to do any of that, but it is doable for anyone who is not afraid to do technical work.
iMac Pro with back case removed showing components.In addition, I've been managing iMacs for almost 20 years and have had over one hundred go through our office. Of those more than one hundred, only one has had an LCD panel fail, and it was over seven years old when the lower backlight quit. It was time to retire that iMac anyway so we sold it to someone who was willing to open it up and replace the backlight Florescent bulb, a $10 component. He did. Used it for three more years until the logic board failed at ten years old.
Even the latest model iMacs are accessible through the screen. . . and are repairable. You just have to know how. It's actually fairly easy once you've done it. You DO have to have a re-assembly kit from Apple to put them back together that includes an adhesive double-sided gasket. But, again, once you know how, easy.
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