It’s not future proof when you can’t upgrade the internals and their are better specs on the market then this and cheaper too
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iMac Pro Available With 8 or 10 Cores This Week, 14 and 18 Core Models Ship Early Next Year
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Not that much of an accomplishment to great a monster machine with an unlimited budget. Innovation means making an incredible machine at a price a little more down to earth IMO.
It's a professional workstation. The cost of the gear is completely insignificant next to the cost of the person to operate it. If this gear makes that person able to accomplish more work, the business expense is entirely justified.
I rather to have Mac Pro then iMac Pro - I’m still waiting for new update next year!
If anything goes wrong you will need to bring iMac to the Apple store not convenient for everyone!
If anything goes wrong you will need to bring iMac to the Apple store not convenient for everyone!
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I'm surprised they haven't created a "touch bar" external keyboard for this.
To all those who are complaining about the price, then this machine is not for you. The cost is reasonable (even by Apple's standards) for the tech you're getting. Although it's not upgradable, the people who can afford this computer are not going to flinch at outfitting it with the best specs possible. And that should last them for quite a while. I'm still fine with my 2013 Mac Pro, and it cost me a lot less (and now has far inferior specs).
How on earth can they not have all the models ready to purchase now? Why are there all these delays at apple?
Agreed, I suspect closer to $8,500 before taxes; however, I am inclined to believe at least $7,500
The 18-core 4TB... may end up being a $15,000 iMac, if not at least $12,000 - all before taxes/duty
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It's also rare for businesses to upgrade computers after the original purchase. Maintaining the staff to do that is too expensive and for the most part businesses prefer their technical employees to be working rather than upgrading their desktops. Better to just spec it how you want it and then buy a new one when that's no longer good enough.
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This last year I put a new graphics card in my Power Mac G4 Cube and it's running great (for its purposes, which are limited). Was very easy to switch out the broken card. And the G4 Cube cost at the time $1800. It's insane to buy an iMac Pro for so much more and not be able to fix it.
Please tell me I can buy the space grey keyboard and track pad...Its all I want
I have no real use for it, but I think I'm going to buy one. It looks gorgeous.
Fake news.
There are not better specs on the market for this type of design/usage. And there are not any cheaper options.
I don't know if Intel even makes a soldered version of the Xeon W chips so the CPU should be upgradable.
The lack of a RAM upgrade door may have more to do with the cooling design trade-off then soldered RAM.
Best wait for the incoming iFixIT tear down video.
But yeah the custom video card will be extremely difficult to acquire separately.
Choose the Vega 64 16GB upgrade option if making a day one purchase (pre-order)
There are better specs. Just go look at AMD Threadripper. And the usage doesn't matter. It's a computer. They're all meant to crunch numbers fast. Don't kid yourself if you think because it's got an Apple logo on it, it does things differently.
I frequently fix every Mac Apple has released in the last decade. Some are more difficult then others. And sometimes its cheaper to pay Apple to fix it.
Well, thats the non-modular Pro (aka the cylinder MP) in a arguably more useful form factor. Great machine for people who don't care that much about upgradeability. Should be relevant without any upgrades for at least 5-6 years anyway, during which it will more then amortise itself. The Xeon line doesn't see significant upgrades that often.