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Apple Reveals New 'iMac Pro' Built for Users With Demanding Workflows, Starting at $5K
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I'm pretty certain that an iMac Pro is the most requested computer in these forums for years and years, much more than the return of the cheesegrater. I don't know if I want one, but I've seen countless posts in the past decade from people who asked that Apple bridge the gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro with a desktop class iMac like this one.
As a photographer who also edits films this sounds like a wonderful "all-in-one" workstation. Sure, not everyone will like it but to me it looks pretty amazing and ideal for my kind of usage. If Apple offers this iMac Pro with matt screen option, I'm sold and Apple can have my money on December!
Well, there are people who want a mac pro update and aren't interested in an iMac version. Particularly one with zero internal upgradability. Thus the complaints.
Sadly that's true. No mic for Siri either.
I've worked with Apple for more than 20 years. Each time a Keynote comes around I simply tell those I work with that I'll take a full spec'd new MBP if they're released, or whatever. They make sure I get on the list right away. Lots of people do this.
A Dell tower workstation with similar specs (but older hardware) is $5000 before you add the 5K display so not too unreasonable, IMO.
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And they'll get their Mac Pro update in 2018.
Well then! I'm tempted! That's a steep price but I'm willing to fork out for it considering how well made these machines are. Still using my 2011 iMac (maxed out of course).
I think you need to look back a bit to when they were making minis that were upgradable, and *current* models. Not something that hasn't been updated in three years.
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Oh, you'll need the 2050 model Holographic iMac nano.
That is a fair point, but fact is that the original was not pushing a million units a quarter, either. Probably why they went to the new design - cheaper to produce.
The role of the Mini was to get people into the Mac ecosystem from Windows. That was taken over by the MacBook Air as soon as it went to around $1000. Yes, people use the Mini for other things, but they're not things Apple formally supports so they're not going to spend money engineering a Mini that can do them better.
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The almost 1000 replies in the 2017 iMac Refresh Wish List would imply that a lot more than "no one" wants this.
I expect the iMac Pro to sell very well for Apple.
Try diagonalizing some big (actually not so big) matrices which don't fit into the 96 GB of memory and then think again ;-)
I think your earlier estimate of current minis is 50,000 a quarter, so what you're now proposing is that older versions sold 20 times that number. Hmm, why would that be? (it isn't because there are cheap laptops, there have always been cheap laptops).
The mini is a low end workstation where you get to choose your own screen (rather than a mirror to look at yourself and your surrounds), or even use the one you already have. There isn't much to the engineering, they're basically iMacs without screens.
As to things Apple 'formally supports' you seem to be forgetting the mini servers and the Apple remotes that shipped with minis. This is what people are using them for, as well as workstations. I think this is exactly what was envisaged by Apple.
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Its not available yet, so you haven't
With this and the upcoming modular MacPro, it looks like Apple is finally getting back into pro hardware.
This is kind of innovative with it being a power house. But it's no Surface Studio as far as 'think different' might have offered. And the price... yeah, well, Apple tax at its finest.
For those, who didn't unterstand this:
Rest in Peace, Mac Pro.
Rest in Peace, new standalone Apple monitor.
Apple turned 100% lifestyle, there will be no more upgradable computers. It is over.
And for 5k, this iMac unpro will be as successful as the NeXT cube.
Rest in Peace, Mac Pro.
Rest in Peace, new standalone Apple monitor.
Apple turned 100% lifestyle, there will be no more upgradable computers. It is over.
And for 5k, this iMac unpro will be as successful as the NeXT cube.
I'm saying the exact opposite - that the old fully-upgradable 4-core Mac Minis were poor sellers, as well, which is why Apple stopped offering 4-core configurations and limited upgradeability to reduce production costs to keep the line revenue positive.
If the old Mac Mini was selling a million units a quarter it would have been consistently improved.
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Well you clearly don't understand since Apple has publicly stated they will ship a new Mac Pro next year.
Crows are going to be on the endangered species list next year with all the consumption people will be doing.
I expect it to sell quite well.
You haven't been up to date with news. They have announced a new modular MacPro for early 2018, AND new standalone monitors. This was announced in an interview a month earlier.
Yeah, that's the only thing i'm skeptical about. The price is not that bad for what it delivers, but that tiny enclosure. .
Frankly i'd rather keep saving and wait for the modular MacPro