There's a few whole lines of MacBooks and iPads for people who want AIO, imo.
I don't know why they still insist on AIO desktops. The low-end Mini and a mid-high range tower should be enough desktop options for today.
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Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued When Supplies Run Out, Recommends 27-Inch iMac
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I don't know why they still insist on AIO desktops. The low-end Mini and a mid-high range tower should be enough desktop options for today.
Whoa. I wonder if this is confirmation that Apple is working on a new Mac Pro and displays. Getting rid of the iMac Pro would pave the way for a new product that isn’t $6000 starting with a $6000 display. The rumoured Mac Pro that‘s between the size of a Mac mini and current Mac Pro with a new display priced together might place it around the $5-6k USD mark.
I really hope this is true. Ideally I just want a 2000’s Mac Pro tower with updated specs:
Thunderbolt 3
SATA III
wifiac+BTLE4.x
USB-C 3.x (4.0 if it’s ready)
Internal bays for 4 drives
Apple silicon or Intel Xeon CPU’s
PCIe slots
The 2019 Mac Pro‘s logic board is the biggest cost factor as it’s custom built for Afterburner support and professional specs most don’t need. Just put in a simple logic board in a mid-tower with internal storage and PCIe slots, user upgradable RAM/GPU/Drives/etc. and start at $3k. throw in a 5K iMac panel in a new display stand for $1200. I guarantee the market is there. I’d ditch my 2014 Mac Pro‘s in a second.
I really hope this is true. Ideally I just want a 2000’s Mac Pro tower with updated specs:
Thunderbolt 3
SATA III
wifiac+BTLE4.x
USB-C 3.x (4.0 if it’s ready)
Internal bays for 4 drives
Apple silicon or Intel Xeon CPU’s
PCIe slots
The 2019 Mac Pro‘s logic board is the biggest cost factor as it’s custom built for Afterburner support and professional specs most don’t need. Just put in a simple logic board in a mid-tower with internal storage and PCIe slots, user upgradable RAM/GPU/Drives/etc. and start at $3k. throw in a 5K iMac panel in a new display stand for $1200. I guarantee the market is there. I’d ditch my 2014 Mac Pro‘s in a second.
It has and it does. Maybe you need to crawl out from under that rock from time to time.
Practically a machine with a 2-year lifetime. Only December 2017 - December 2019, and they showed no interest in refreshing after that certainly. We're over a year into the current Mac Pro, no clue when the next true Mac Pro refresh will be.
This line of truly Pro Mac desktops is not what it was 15+ years ago. No more yearly or bi-yearly refreshes anymore.
This line of truly Pro Mac desktops is not what it was 15+ years ago. No more yearly or bi-yearly refreshes anymore.
Me too!
Good question, but they'll be there for a short time, for those who do want to grab one . . .
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Doesn't matter. The important thing is that this tells us - the new iMac is just around the corner now!!
by the time it isn't available for sale the new Apple Silicon iMacs will be out with performance in excess of the iMac Pro at the prices of the regular iMac...
A typical Tim Hollywood product. Pros went rogue - Tim just feeded them some expensive stuff to quit them. Successful - he’s an evil mastermind!
Maybe they should consider branding it “Air” fir all the plane noises it makes.
agree that traditionally Apple only served premium ...Apple's modus operandi always was "we know what the customer wants better than the customer" — and they did quite well with itAs to the market share... not so sure. Apple traditionally only serve the premium market, and they do quite well in there. Maybe they will be able to grab more of that, who knows. But they will never be competing with cheap Inspirons and Aspires that form the bulk of the PC market.
But they now have a 1B+ user base, they are integrating iOS into macOS, they are offering (new) services - the goal to provide a unique user experience, beyond the OSs. As such they will have to appeal to the 900M iOS users that still use x86/Windows, you have to offer compelling reasons to win them over into your ecosystem, hence my belief that will offer choices.
Also, if they continue their "traditional path" they run danger to follow Nokias route, you got to adopt to new needs ...
Time will the though
Incorrect. The iMac Pro was released in December of 2017, making it closer to 3 years.
Bought mine (lowest end 3.2 GHz 8-core Intel Xeon, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) refurbished a year and a half ago. Runs everything I throw at it, including Parallels for a Windows-only program that I need for work. The unique combination of speed, quiet operation, fantastic screen, and good expansion for what I need makes this worth every penny I paid for it.
Yeah, it's not state-of-the-art anymore, but I can say - flat out - the best Mac I've ever owned. As long as Apple continues to support it with software updates, I'm holding on to it.
I was going to say I hope Apple uses the iMac Pro cooling system with future iMacs, but realized with M-series chips there's probably not going to be a need for it anymore.
I can’t imagine there’d be much difference between an M2 iMac and an M2 iMac Pro.
That’s what the switch to M1 is all about.
The upcoming M2 iMac will be twice as fast as the iMac Pro, so not much need to include the iMac Pro in the product matrix.
True, but then you need to compare to the high-core-count Apple Arm processor that Apple has in the labs but you haven’t seen yet (since that’s what will be in Apple’s high-end machines)