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Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued When Supplies Run Out, Recommends 27-Inch iMac
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I had my maxed out 2015 work iMac fail last month.
I was holding and hoping I could wait for the new models but not so. I needed something quick and was on the fence between a refurbished iMac Pro or a 2019 with specs I needed...for close to $1000 cheaper.
I have always wanted to upgrade to an iMac Pro since they came out but could not justify it for my work. I was hoping the first round of iMac Pros (with a larger hard drive) would have dropped more in price....never really did. OWC had some low-cost 1TB units when the pandemic hit but the price shot up pretty quickly.
I went with the 2019 iMac and it will do for the next year...then I can get the new model. To order a BTO 2020, there was a wait for weeks...2022 will be my year!
I was holding and hoping I could wait for the new models but not so. I needed something quick and was on the fence between a refurbished iMac Pro or a 2019 with specs I needed...for close to $1000 cheaper.
I have always wanted to upgrade to an iMac Pro since they came out but could not justify it for my work. I was hoping the first round of iMac Pros (with a larger hard drive) would have dropped more in price....never really did. OWC had some low-cost 1TB units when the pandemic hit but the price shot up pretty quickly.
I went with the 2019 iMac and it will do for the next year...then I can get the new model. To order a BTO 2020, there was a wait for weeks...2022 will be my year!
It sold well to those who were willing to spend an extra $3000 or so to get a much less noisy iMac.
Does this mean they’ll stop selling the black Magic Mouse and matching keyboard?
The initial production run came with an 8-core as the base model. They've stopped selling that model a while ago, the stock model sold now is a 10-core version. The iMac Pro also had quite a lot of configuration options, those were built-to-order and definitely not all coming off an initial production run.
The iMac Pro was music to the ears of all iMac customers with enough disposable income to pay maybe $3000 to get a much less noisy iMac.
Bought a nearly maxed out iMac Pro back in January 2018 and it's been such a solid machine for 6K/8K video work. Have gotten great use out of it and, in hindsight, an excellent investment. Just now starting to consider a replacement so it's interesting to read this. Definitely curious to see what the Apple silicon iMac's are like.
Intriguing the rumor recently of different colored iMacs for the future redesign expected. As now clearly the black color is no longer going to be an option. So something is adding up here.
I see this as the beginning of a trend in Apple killing off Intel Macs while at the same time introducing their M Class replacements.
What's not to like?
What's not to like?
It uses those space-heater, X86 Intel processors so, no thanks. Goodbye X86 Intel, hello ARM Apple Silicon. I almost feel sorry for the loyal Mac users who purchased that iMac Pro. Even with all those processor upgrade options, it didn't seem to be worth the price. Intel really screwed over Apple with their flaky processor roadmap that fell years behind and Apple had to take the blame for the thermal-throttling problems. I do like the darker color of the iMac Pro, but along with the advanced cooling solution, that's about the only good thing I can now say about it. It was more computer than I needed, so I wasn't going to buy one, anyway.
Yup. Old parts and design, so if they decide to have a pro all-in-one, they will do it based on the new design.
It is a niche that people may or may not want moving forward.
Never every professional user wants to be able to expand the machine. Many (most?) buy what they need when they need it and then upgrade to a new machine when they need more power. Some certainly like non-all-in-one systems, but from talking to people around the studios, there are certainly some who would want the follow on to the system.
People who need them. People who have a business rep and can get a discount. People who won the lottery and like the look.
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I thought the big selling point was the redesigned cooling system that was quiet and better able to handle sustained loads? These 2020 iMacs won’t be able to do that. Wait for the Apple Silicon version if that’s important to you because those will be designed and by nature of the new CPU will be quiet and powerful. And hopefully, as the tumors have suggested, come in a space gray or space black colorway.
I think I’m going to sell my 2019 iMac and 2019 MacBook Pro with the second generation MacBook Pro comes out as I anticipate it will be plenty powerful for both of my portable and docked desktop usage requirements. I just hope that my hardware doesn’t sell for peanuts once Apple Silicon has taken over everywhere. Usually it maintains a high resale value, but this changes things substantially.
I think I’m going to sell my 2019 iMac and 2019 MacBook Pro with the second generation MacBook Pro comes out as I anticipate it will be plenty powerful for both of my portable and docked desktop usage requirements. I just hope that my hardware doesn’t sell for peanuts once Apple Silicon has taken over everywhere. Usually it maintains a high resale value, but this changes things substantially.
I disagree with this viewpoint. Over all those years I've been running quiet PCs with 8-16 core space-heater intel xeons - using either heavy, high-end air coolers (such as noctua d15), or simple AIO water coolers. Apple did not bother making a quiet machine -- it certainly was possible, and with their engineering prowess -- also in small form factor (as clearly evidenced by a lot of people building quiet PCs with very hot CPUs and GPUs in mini ITX boxes). Nope. It was their fault entirely.
I loved my iMac, but Apple refused to cover a faulty panel only 3 years after I bought it. Every other OEM always has offered to repair my hardware, ASRock repaired my Mobo 6 years after the fact for FREE and only charged me postage. I'm not going to buy Apple products again after that experience, I have a 2018 Mac and that is the last product I'll buy unless Tim Cook resigns.
iMP was truly a WTF product. But all jokes aside it was only a stand-in for new Pro tower it didn't have any long term plan to stay alive and get updated.
Well, considering that apple silicone with 12 cores will outperform 18core iMac Pro, it is no wonder they are discontinuing it. And new iMac will cost how much? I bet the same as intel iMac versions, no change in price. It would be ridiculous to offer it as a product.
I see the general computer knowledge of Mac fanatics just keeps dropping.
Do you even know what a CPU does? It's obvious you don't. Better specs but doesn't run as smooth? WTF does smooth have to do with anything when it's slower? You're talking about a GUI and graphics, not CPU.
Optimized? Apple could have optimized any number of things over the years including OpenGL. They didn't give a crap. They let a 'Pro' model fester for years with no updates and no price drops. They purposely slow iOS devices instead of optimizing them to make you buy newer models just to keep the same average speed. Yet people just keep wasting their money. It's mind boggling, but hey, keep sending my Apple shares higher. Fanatics are good for that.
Really, there wasn't a lot of benefit to upgrading. Spec bump...for what? A 5% increase in performance? Who cares.
M1 is the future of course, but I am starting to think that Apple should develop more pro apps of their own such as logic and FCP to fill instances where developers are not particularly aggressive in supporting the platform. That’s their own design suite, photo editing, CAD, architecture, 3D printing slicing among a few places where there is a space to fill and make sure every use case is always covered natively without having to wait or be held back by developers.
That’s my only concern right now in buying an m1 Mac and waiting for the Adobe suite and pro apps in the above listed categories.
That’s my only concern right now in buying an m1 Mac and waiting for the Adobe suite and pro apps in the above listed categories.
I love my iMac pro. I understand why most people wouldn't want or need one, but I do a lot of video, website, and podcast work. I never, ever hear the fan running. I also like having the all-in-one unit. I guess the M1 iMac is going to outrun the iMac Pro. However, I'm not sorry I bought iMac Pro and glad I did!