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Mortgage your house and buy one
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.
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...
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.
OT, merry Christmas, Swordmaker, I get my present tonight later and should hopefully be freeping on it! An iPad Pro. Yay!
I was on the Apple Store web site just a couple days ago looking at that... and drooling over the prospective specifications. I would love to see some real-world comparisons and trials of this machine.
But the price tag reminds me of the earliest days of personal computing... yowzers! But yes - this is a premium piece of equipment.
My son is an Apple guy and told me about this new machine several months ago. I went to the Apple site and read all the propaganda about it....man, that thing is amazing, but waaaaaay overkill for little old me.
I’m currently running a 2010 27” iMac with 2.93 Ghz and i7 Core, 2TB HD with 32gb of RAM shoved in it. It does everything I need it to do and runs the latest iOS as well. It’s still a very sweet machine even as old as it is.
It’s kinda funny because the original HD went out a few years back and I replaced it. The problem was that the replacement drive didn’t have the thermal sensor available at that time, so the thing roared in panic mode like a WWI fighter plane taking off once it warmed up. Couldn’t stand that roaring so it just sat collecting dust for quite a long while. I almost sold it for next to nothing just to get rid of it. Then, I discovered an aftermarket thermal sensor just for that kind of application and installed it. Yippie! It worked like a charm, and the old 2010 iMac was destined to become my main machine after several iOS upgrades to the latest, and I’m still using it to this day. Even now.
I know I’ll need to eventually replace it, but it won’t be with this new high $$$ Pro model. I’m gonna wait at least till next year before I start looking to do so.
Want them to bring back the 17” laptop.