Apple unveiled the company’s new iMac, the iMac Pro, back at WWDC earlier this year. The company is finally opening sales of the workstation later this week, starting at $4999.
Apple’s new iMac Pro is one monster of a computer. The device includes a lot of power, and Apple is targeting it towards creative professionals who need this kind of power for their work every day. The iMac Pro comes with a seemingly astonishing 27-inch Retina 5K display with 500 nits of brightness. The base model of the iMac Pro boasts an 8-core Intel Xeon processor, but you can get 10 or 18 cores if you are willing to spend more. The device sports up to 128GB of RAM and up to 4TB SSD for the storage, with the base model coming with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
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Pushing all the graphics on the 5K display is the AMD Radeon Pro Vega with 8GB of HBM2, enabling the device to fetch data at up to 400GB per second and pushing up to 11 teraflops of power. If 8GB memory isn’t enough for the GPU, you can get it configured with 16GB instead.
Put simply, this thing is an absolute monster. This device obviously isn’t meant for everyone, even if you consider yourself to be a professional user who requires a lot of power. The iMac Pro is meant for those who edit and render 4K videos regularly, or render a lot of sophisticated 3D content.
Like the iPhone X launch, Apple is letting YouTubers try out the new iMac Pro before every other tech publications. This time around fashion bloggers aren’t the ones testing the company’s upcoming product, so here is tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee showing off all the power of the iMac Pro:
Apple’s going to start selling its latest iMac this Thursday for $4999. The device’s itself comes in a hot new space gray colour, and Apple is also bringing the fresh splash of colour to the Magic Keyboard, the Magic Mouse 2, and the Magic Trackpad 2.
Locust Infested Orchard Inc.
<p>Appreciate the latest product announcements, Mehedi, from the fruity company, however I'd just to clarify a few points if I may be permitted.</p><p><br></p><h6>Quote by Mehedi: "This device obviously isn’t meant for everyone, even if you consider yourself to be a professional user who requires a lot of [self-indulgent Mac] power."</h6><p><br></p><p>Surely this ought to have been written in one of two possible ways, either as:</p><p><br></p><p><strong>'This device obviously isn’t meant for everyone, other than for those who already possess a phone with embedded notch, seeking to add to their collection of half-bitten logo embossed gadgets, sanctioned by fashion bloggers'.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Or as:</p><p><br></p><p><strong>'This device obviously isn’t meant for anyone, other than to look pretty in the office where onlookers can gawk and sqwark at the monstrosity that is the $5000 iMac Pro'.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>The following statement by Mehedi is particularly pertinent as to why iPhones always get rave reviews,</p><h6>"Like the iPhone X launch, Apple is letting YouTubers try out the new iMac Pro before every other tech publications. This time around fashion bloggers aren’t the ones testing the company’s upcoming product"</h6><p><br></p><p>Today I have been enlightened with the truth ― as I suspected all along, the iPhone is all flash, no substance ― designed for fashionistas (hence why possession of the latest iPhone is considered to be a must-have fashion accessory for one's own ego boost, else it's back to those dreaded depressive streaks, unless a shot of Prozac remediates the bizarre state of mind within the iSheeple community).</p><p><br></p>
Locust Infested Orchard Inc.
<blockquote><a href="#226792"><em>In reply to evox81:</em></a></blockquote><p>You are most welcome.</p><p><br></p><p>If ever in need for a review concerning an Apple product, never hesitate to call upon me to give an totally unbiased comment, for I endeavour to always bring the truth to the fore, however much it may cause discontent in the iSheeple camp.</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><a href="#226805"><em>In reply to MikeGalos:</em></a></blockquote><p>"whenever they are due for a minor upgrade like adding more RAM or upgrading the GPU. "</p><p><br></p><p>Well good thing is with the maxed out Surface Studio (iMac contender) you can upgrade the RAM and GPU…..oh wait for $4200 it does not have upgradable RAM or GPU. RAM is capped at 32gig and you get a laptop GPU that is not replaceable.</p><p><br></p><p>Nice try Mike.</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><a href="#226805"><em>In reply to MikeGalos:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>still waiting to see how will throttle everything (xeon + vega) inside that case because over heat</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><a href="#227022"><em>In reply to dontbe_evil:</em></a></blockquote><p>Reviews I have seen show no throttling even under max load. Looks like Apple nailed the cooling this time around. They pretty much had too.</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><a href="#226808"><em>In reply to MikeGalos:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>space gray is +999$</p>
dontbe evil
<p>ROTFL</p>