Yeah, the nerve of Intel discontinuing a CPU for a 4 year old computer. What do they expect Apple to do? Spec bump a 4 year old $5000+ computer? Ridiculous.
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Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued When Supplies Run Out, Recommends 27-Inch iMac
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Yeah, the nerve of Intel discontinuing a CPU for a 4 year old computer. What do they expect Apple to do? Spec bump a 4 year old $5000+ computer? Ridiculous.
Yeah a lot of uninformed people just throwing shade at Tim Cook again for Intel's problems.
Apple was stuck in a pickle with iMac Pro. Still had stock but no CPU upgrades to boot, and no point in moving to another Intel when ARM was around the corner.
The Apple silicon iMac will be configurable with enough performance for both consumer and professional applications, rendering the concept of an expensive high-end iMac Pro as unnecessary — good news for all.
What do you mean there’s not a market for a “pro-grade” iMac? Do you think most people buy 27inch iMacs to browse Facebook from their homes?
We have several hundred PCs in the shop as well. Guess how many of them have upgraded graphics cards? Zero. It doesn’t make financial sense for the business. By the time one component is really ready for upgrade, usually the rest of the machine is due for an upgrade as well.
I don’t really care if it’s an AIO or traditional box; what we looked at was value over the life of the product and the iMac Pro worked well for us (when you factor in quality monitors). Regular iMacs didn’t work for us due to heat throttling and other failures. There was no reasonable Mac Pro at the time.
Switching to the home front, I built a PC for gaming 4 years ago. Today, the GRFX card is showing some age. But why spend $1-1.5k on a new card when the CPU, ram, and IO are all also ready for updates. Even the monitor will be updated to take advantage of higher FPS 4K that wasn’t possible 4 years ago. The only component I hope to reuse will be the case.
If it were really a pickle they'd discount the machines. They haven't budged even a penny.
I doubt they'll sell many, and will probably discount eventually to get rid of them.
Good. Display chassis is outdated and the internals are as well. Price is not even good.
While I won't mourn the loss of the iMac Pro, I wouldn't mind seeing a high end version of the silicon iMac, with a 32 inch display.
iMac Pro was an offence in the face of all Mac professional users and to Planet Earth, as all integrated, non upgradable systems.
You will not be missed.
You will not be missed.
I would bet many of those folks would like the rumored “mini” modular Mac Pro.
Someone like me who pushed the cpu 100% but doesn’t want to feel like they are on the runway at an international airport......
I bet if the price was low everybody will talk good about this computer.
And you guys talk also like you can spend money in upgrades every time a new one come out.
most of the people in this Community don’t render more than 8K or 32K come down to planet earth and stop bragging.
also in the real world many components in a pro Computer just stand in your lab but not in online, platforms, applications, consoles, Stream services,
etc...
most of the people cannot even paid for a thunderbolt cable yet Lol, wifi 6 is already old and not many people have it or can use it, most people don’t have a 5k computer display or ssd portable drive, we are in a country where most of the people still have 15 MB per second of Internet and a lot of people bragging of having 300 Mb internet service what a joke a $5000 computer but slow internet.
Guess what I bought this computer on eBay for $2700
10 Core, 64 Ram and radeon por Vega 64 16GB and lol is more than perfect for my son online school Because the pandemic.
Now somebody can be bragging about his 9 years old on a iMac Pro for school and homework. And the answer is no not many people can’t
this is not longer the 90’s people and the pc world and Mac world as we know will change in the next 10 years to something we never Imagine, quantum computer and more is coming.
all the bragging that you guys have about you knowledge of the specification for computer is in reality just a tiny part of the work force for Adobe, cinema 4d, blender, Acrobat, Xcode etc... bitches of the industry.
I really hate all this big talk and not matter what a lot of things will be obsolete and you guys will be over sold for ting that in the real world you can not apply on full potential.
And you guys talk also like you can spend money in upgrades every time a new one come out.
most of the people in this Community don’t render more than 8K or 32K come down to planet earth and stop bragging.
also in the real world many components in a pro Computer just stand in your lab but not in online, platforms, applications, consoles, Stream services,
etc...
most of the people cannot even paid for a thunderbolt cable yet Lol, wifi 6 is already old and not many people have it or can use it, most people don’t have a 5k computer display or ssd portable drive, we are in a country where most of the people still have 15 MB per second of Internet and a lot of people bragging of having 300 Mb internet service what a joke a $5000 computer but slow internet.
Guess what I bought this computer on eBay for $2700
10 Core, 64 Ram and radeon por Vega 64 16GB and lol is more than perfect for my son online school Because the pandemic.
Now somebody can be bragging about his 9 years old on a iMac Pro for school and homework. And the answer is no not many people can’t
this is not longer the 90’s people and the pc world and Mac world as we know will change in the next 10 years to something we never Imagine, quantum computer and more is coming.
all the bragging that you guys have about you knowledge of the specification for computer is in reality just a tiny part of the work force for Adobe, cinema 4d, blender, Acrobat, Xcode etc... bitches of the industry.
I really hate all this big talk and not matter what a lot of things will be obsolete and you guys will be over sold for ting that in the real world you can not apply on full potential.
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Well, I've really liked mine (base model). Works hard, works quiet, big chin less visible in the space grey.
Shame the power supply killed it, thankfully with a matter of days left on the warranty. Compared to the roar of the regular iMac this thing has been a joy to use.
Those years went past rather quickly and in no way could I justify the stupid money needed for a Mac Pro.
Shame the power supply killed it, thankfully with a matter of days left on the warranty. Compared to the roar of the regular iMac this thing has been a joy to use.
Those years went past rather quickly and in no way could I justify the stupid money needed for a Mac Pro.
What R&D? Isn't the point of a stop gap product like iMac Pro to just stuff new CPU into an old design to keep pros happy for another few years until Mac Pro and Apple Silicon are ready?Although I was expecting this and been saying this for months its sad to see that Apple spend all this R&D on a 1 stop product. Why they haven't implemented for the iMac is beyond me and I really hope the only reason that truly stopped them was the ram door. One of the worst possible thing about iMac was the cooling and they don't even bother to change that and in August they gave us another "crap" machine that is loud under load. IF there is no amazing redesign this year for the AS iMac then I don't know what their designers are doing there. Maybe still designing the bloody Airtags and Airpower.
To be honest, it's up there with one of my all time favourite Macs ever. I think i'll continue to use mine until the Apple Silicon version can blow it away and all audio software and hardware is updated for Apple Silicon.
You have to wonder how Apple will approach the next iMac models without the pro models against supporting both processors platforms? Also what would be the marketing effect if Apple also announced lower cost Mac Pro Mini that offers similar I/O except built in display close to the iMac pricing?
iMac Pro has an amazing cooling system. Almost silent even under heavy load. This exactly Apple magic the new iMacs are lacking.
I don't think there should be a user upgrade able GPU - you're starting to turn it into a PC at that point with the need to support to many variations.
USB4 is ready (it's on the M1 Macs) and it's also Thunderbolt 3/4.
What I'd really like to see is Apple selling the 5K display panel they use in the 27" iMacs as a standalone display at an affordable price point.
I don't want third party; I want an Apple display using the SAME panel. I've yet to see any third party display that comes close to how good the 27" iMac's panel is. I think Apple is keeping it to themselves on purpose to sell more iMacs.
I respectfully disagree. Tim cares deeply about the products, and has assembled a fresh new team that is starting to break free from the excessive minimization that was plaguing the lineups for too long. The M1 release is a huge signal that he wants to keep Apple plowing its own path rather than just building computers from off-the-shelf components like every other company.
The Mac Pro always struck me as a weird animal. Powerful, yes, but the "Pro" name felt more like marketing than anything else. What's unfortunate about having Pro and non-Pro products is that some customers believe that the non-Pro counterpart is "underpowered", which is never the case.