Apple’s all new iMac Pro staring at $4999, available in December 2017
Posted on 06/05/2017 12:38:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple today gave a sneak peek of iMac Pro, an entirely new workstation-class product line designed for pro users with the most demanding workflows. The all-new iMac Pro, with its gorgeous 27-inch Retina 5K display, up to 18-core Xeon processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation, is the most powerful Mac ever made. Featuring a stunning new space gray enclosure, iMac Pro packs incredible performance for advanced graphics editing, virtual reality content creation and real-time 3D rendering. iMac Pro is scheduled to ship in December starting at (just under $5k)
In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest-end, high-throughput system in a modular design, as well as a new high-end pro display.
“We’re thrilled to give developers and customers a sneak peek at iMac Pro. This will be our fastest and most powerful Mac ever, which brings workstation-class computing to iMac for the first time,” said John Ternus, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering, in a statement. “We reengineered the whole system and designed an entirely new thermal architecture to pack extraordinary performance into the elegant, quiet iMac enclosure our customers love — iMac Pro is a huge step forward and there’s never been anything like it.”
Apple’s all new iMac Pro staring at $4999, available in December 2017
Workstation-Class Performance in an iMac Design
Featuring next-generation Intel Xeon processors up to 18 cores, iMac Pro is designed to handle the most demanding pro workflows. With an all-flash architecture and all-new thermal design, iMac Pro delivers up to 80 percent more cooling capacity in the same thin and seamless iMac design. And with a new space gray enclosure and gorgeous 27-inch Retina 5K display with support for 1 billion colors, iMac Pro is as stunning as it is powerful.
The Most Advanced Graphics Ever in a Mac
iMac Pro comes with the new Radeon Pro Vega GPU, the most advanced graphics ever in a Mac. Featuring a new, next-generation compute core and up to 16GB of on-package high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), iMac Pro with the Vega GPU delivers up to an amazing 11 Teraflops of single-precision compute power for real-time 3D rendering and immersive, high frame rate VR. And for half-precision computation, ideal for machine learning, iMac Pro delivers up to an incredible 22 Teraflops of performance.
Fast Storage & Advanced I/O
iMac Pro also supports up to 4TB of SSD and up to 128GB of ECC memory, and with four Thunderbolt 3 ports can connect to up to two high-performance RAID arrays and two 5K displays at the same time. For the first time ever on a Mac, iMac Pro features 10Gb Ethernet for up to 10 times faster networking.
Pricing & Availability
iMac Pro is scheduled to ship in December starting at just under $5K (US). More details can be found at apple.com/imac-pro.
Source: Apple Inc.
Starting at $4999?
haha....
That’s a little salty for me.
Sigh.................I guess I’ll just hobble along with my Windows XP...................
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This is the Pro. It’s in the ballpark of the other Mac Pro realeases. The Pro
line is often unnoticed except the video editing and similar high demand customer. They tend to be high performance leading sometimes bleeding edge boxes.
Big deal!
I just read about an experimental pc on a Ukrainian dairy farm that can process over 150 ropeadopes per gigaturd!
Apple’s obviously on it’s last legs....
AAPL is down 1% today. I guess the market isn’t impressed.
Gotcha, that makes sense.
Or I can buy an HP for $500, which is one tenth the price. And I’m already used to Windows 10.
Not impressed and way overpriced.
That for a very tiny market of people willing to pay 5k for a computer.
That’s insane!
That’s great for top of the line - maybe people processing movies or something. But what about for mere mortals?
The "MAX" specs boggle my mind:
I could write this off as a business expense...but I cannot abide with these 16:9 monitors that are being pushed on us these days by most companies. A professional monitor should not bow down to the home TV crowd.
So, does this come with at least a 16:10 monitor?
A Mac Mini works for me.
Apple didn't announce the iPhone 8 or whatever it's going to be called. They aren't stupid. If they announced the iPhone 8 (whatever) in the first week of June for release in September they'd kill iPhone sales for the next three months. That's a stupid move.
Apple did announce new iPad Pros with more speed and a new 10.5" size to replace the 9.7". The new size will accommodate an entire full size virtual keyboard and it will also handle a real full size keyboard cover. They also use a new processor that is twice as fast as before. . . and the new iOS 11 will be completely multitasking with complete drag and drop between apps AND have a full file system.
But, since all those things are not the new iPhone8, the market is not impressed.
The main clientele for this computer will be TV and movie studios that do high tech video editing.
They probably don't see you and me as part of their target demographic. They claim if you configure any other manufacture to the same specs it would cost more. These are all server grade parts. I think my old 2009 Mac Pro may do me until I don't need one anymore.
I paid like $6k for a smoking hot Mac IIfx in the 1990s. Obsolete within 5 years
I guess I'll continue with the old reliable, low cost, personal computer. It has had its ups and downs over the years but mostly ups and I have no complaints. A PC is a good value.
Then again, the PC is a true free market computer where everyone and their brother can develop hardware, software, build systems. Competition brings the cost down. Monopolies do just the opposite and that is why Apple is always more expensive. Then again, that allows them to control the quality and design.
So... if you are okay with paying 5x more for a system, then hats off to you. You probably drink expensive cognac and have a butler.
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