Appreciate your humour but a notch isn't warranted for a desktop machine. One legit idea for notch on MBP models is to get the display as large as possible relative to the size of the machine. This factor is more important on a mobile device. Frankly I find the rumour ethernet on the power brick to be disconcerting because it means they are trying to prioritise thinness on the Pro iMac over Pro-ness which is quite disappointing. Speakers suffer when iMac design becomes thin, there's no good reason to do this on a Pro iMac. Pro this son-of-a-bitch!!
Make it twice as thick as regular iMac, put all of the ports on the back, put the power brick internal and put speakers inside that shake the house. Give it legendary levels of airflow.
Which pro uses internal speakers for professional work? ?
internal SSD are crap for a desktop
What? Internal SSDs are pure luxury to have. It's the easiest way of accessing storage. It's always there, you don't have to worry about strange sounds external harddrives make, you don't have to worry about cables sizzling around.
What do you guys think this will look like based on what they said? I'm expecting the same as the 24" but with black bezels, in silver & space grey.
Jepp, exactly like that.
Of course it will. The previous iMac Pro started at $4,999.
But this iMac Pro will not be the same category as the previous iMac Pro. It has to continue after the iMac with its price.
The big question remains as to how the could possibly sell such a massive panel with the same properties like the MacBook Pro, basically rendering the XDR Display vaaaaaastly overpriced.
The XDR Display will also get an update later.
Depending on when in 2022 it comes out, why M1? Let's get to M2!
But the M2 is not better than the M1 Max. The M2 will be an entry level chip like the M1, just one generation advanced. And M2 Pro/Max are at least one year off, probably more.
As long as the chin is smaller or preferably gone this could be a dynamic machine
As for the notch, If it had Face ID maybe but preferably no notch
Will this be M1 or M2 max Pro and Max ??
The iMac will most definitely get the M1 Pro and M1 Max.
unfortunately we don't know what we don't know. the cpu question might have more to do with Apple GPU plans than anything. Do they intend to do all CPU and GPU in-house, or will they still be using 3rd-party GPUs in their desktops?
sure the max-core M1 Max is nice and all, but you would never pay that much for a desktop with a nice graphics card. you can do so much better on your own.
i like MacOS and all, but for utility it is only so much better. There's a limit to the premium I will pay on an Apple desktop vs what I can do myself and live with Windows.
There will be no 3rd-party GPUs anymore in any future Macs in the foreseeable future.And you don't pay for the M1 Max. You pay for a whole computer, with a display, maybe a battery, a keyboard, speakers, macOS. Maybe you don't care about ~220 ppi and you are fine with ~160 ppi. But I would argue that it's hard to find a computer with the same specs thats cheaper than the new MacBook Pros. The same will be even more true with the new iMacs.
So.... identical to the 27" 512Mb SSD iMac with 16Mb that I bought in 2015, but with a less powerful GPU then.
And I can't run Windows on it to play GTA or Red Dead Redemption.
What crazy GPU were you able to buy in your six year old iMac?
If they do- for example, if there is M2 and M2 PRO & M2 MAX in 6 months (something I personally doubt)- it would imply a "big advancement" pattern every 6 months. With no expectations of Mac Pro in 6 months but either WWDC or next Fall, it seems it MUST be another leap. if M2 PRO & MAX are already 3-6 months old when it is revealed, is that M3? And if so, it even more strongly implies major leaps every 6 months.
There won't be an M2 Pro or M2 Max in six months. But there might be a M2. And that M2 will be a leap compared to the M1. But not as much of a leap as the M1 was compared to Intel. We won't see that every year now, if ever again. Because they won't release everything at once and M2 is due first M2 Pro and M2 Max will be ready in one year at the earliest. But I doubt we will see new MacBook Pros again in 2022.
What's the track record of this leaker? I'd be happy if they go with the design similar to the picture but it seems unlikely to me Apple will use different design for different size iMacs. have they done this before?
No one thinks Apple goes with the design of the picture. Thats just an illustration to have a picture of something nobody knows anything about.
I'd rather have a 4K monitor at 34" but super expensive.
So you would like to look at 130 ppi? Are you sure? My employer gave me a 27" 4K display for free. When I first plugged it in I thought it was broken. After playing around with it I realised it has 168 ppi and that is much lower than the iMac and MacBook Pro I was used to. I tried to work with it but after one month of daily trying I gave it back. If you are used to ~220 ppi it's hard to look at 4K larger than 24".
No different to M1 vs M1 Pro/Max for single thread performance???
I read that is the case. How true is that?
That's very true. All the performance cores in M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max are exactly the same. That's the beauty of Apple Silicon.
That only applies to multi-core speeds. You'll still notice limitations due to single-core speeds, because most programs are still single-threaded, and you're going to continue to experience wait times on even the fastest of current chips with those programs. Thus there continues to be a need for faster single-core speeds (or for single-core programs to transition to multi-core; but parallelizing complex programs is very difficult, so that's not going to happen anytime soon).
Yepp, but first alls the M1 have a pretty spectacular single core performance and second if you have more cores the single-threaded apps still benefit because the chance is higher to have an idling thread.
The new Mac Pro and Mac Pro Mini for sure will have more than the M1ProMax chip. There’s no way they could call it a Mac Pro if it’s performance was the same as a laptop.
Maybe Dual or Quad M1Pro chips if such a thing is possible?
There will be chip packages with two and four M1 Max SoCs. They are code named Jade 2C-Die and Jade 4C-Die. Mark Gurman talked about them months ago. Those will go in the next Mac Pro.
The Intel iMac already has a 10-core CPU and up to 128GB RAM, and Intel's Alder Lake chips expected in the next few weeks have up to 16 cores, so I could imagine a further iteration of the M1 SoC with either more cores, or the efficiency cores (that can't be used for hyperthreading) replaced with performance cores, plus more real estate for memory. The alternative would be to leave a top-end Intel offering until the M2/A15 family is ready.
I suppose the top iMac will get the 2 M1 Max chip package. That is probably the "added configuration" dylandtk is talking about.
A guess would be that this iMac starts out at $4000 and if maxed out it would be over $5000. Remember this is intended as a high end graphics, gaming and guru machine. And yes there are many people that have Use for a machine of this type both in the commercial and private sectors
Yeah, no. If true there would be a huge price gab between the 24" iMac and the 27" iMac. It will start at $2000 - $2500.
I am working at home and decided to get a 32" 4K screen, upgrading from a 27. I can't imagine going back to a 27" as my primary display. If this is a Pro machine, real estate is important for any degree of multitasking
That's completely crazy. You look at 138 ppi. Maybe you're lucky and you actually need glasses but nobody told you. But Apple Retina display have around 220 ppi which is a HUGE difference to your 138 ppi. If I had to choose between 13" @ 220 ppi or 32" @ 138 ppi I would happily choose the 13" display.