I lusted after the iMac Pro for years but couldn’t drop $5k on it. Now, I prefer the modularity of Mac Studio. Just wish the Studio Display was $600 cheaper.
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iMac Pro Launched Five Years Ago Today
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What a beautiful machine when it came out. I ended up buying the Magic Mouse and keyboard as well as it was great colour.
Mine (8 core/64gb/2 tb) has worked flawlessly since Summer 2017, chewing up everything I've ever thrown at it. I hope it continues that way until Apple comes up with something better -- meaning something that's suited to my needs.
An little story. A friend came over with his son, I think 9 at the time, who follows Apple matters. When they came into my workroom the boy exclaimed "Whoa! Whoa! iMac Pro...I've never seen one."
An little story. A friend came over with his son, I think 9 at the time, who follows Apple matters. When they came into my workroom the boy exclaimed "Whoa! Whoa! iMac Pro...I've never seen one."
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Wow, been using my iMac Pro base model for just short of 5 years. Flawless and by far the best desktop I have ever owned. Still spoiled by this screen...any M2 Ultra retrofit kits available?
Same thoughts here. The current iMac design and colours are to forget about.in terms of design they should have continued that amazing design..refinement was all they needed to do..
the new iMacs are such inferior, step-down designs..I don't know who came up with the new boring , educational, class room themeI really don't like it.
I don’t really want an iMac Pro if it’s 5 grand. I just want something comparable to the iMacs I’ve been paying roughly $2200 for for all these years. The current 2019 I have at work is specced better than that old iMac Pro anyways
Once I got my Iici and IIfx outfitted the way I wanted, there was no need to change them. They were the state of the art for many years of use. We could change memory, hard drives, I/O boards and graphics cards.
I was able to tweak my 2013 MacPro to 128GB of OWC Ram and a 2TB OWC SSD. Both the CPU and graphics cards "could" be upgraded in later years as there were three graphic choices and I think four or five CPU choices from the stock piles at OWC.Those components were not soldered in.
My 2018 Intel Mac mini being used as a file server had the upgraded cpu, 2TB SSD and 10Gbit ethernet options at order time but I could get third party OWC memory to max out at 64GB at much lower price than Apple memory..
Now the Mac Studio is just like all of the versions of laptops from Apple. The upgrade choice is a complete replacement of the device to a new one with "better" specs and possibly higher prices.
Thus the only choice today is to max out the specs at order time to try and future proof the device for hopefully five years or so.
With my military discount, the maxed out Mac Studio with two Studio displays was around $10,000. My IIfx maxed out with a 21" color monitor ands 8" hard dive cost about $10,000 in 1990 dollars.
Due to the loss of purchasing power of the dollar over the last 30 years, my new system is the same number in depreciated dollars but light years ahead in computing power to the IIfx I had.
I was able to tweak my 2013 MacPro to 128GB of OWC Ram and a 2TB OWC SSD. Both the CPU and graphics cards "could" be upgraded in later years as there were three graphic choices and I think four or five CPU choices from the stock piles at OWC.Those components were not soldered in.
My 2018 Intel Mac mini being used as a file server had the upgraded cpu, 2TB SSD and 10Gbit ethernet options at order time but I could get third party OWC memory to max out at 64GB at much lower price than Apple memory..
Now the Mac Studio is just like all of the versions of laptops from Apple. The upgrade choice is a complete replacement of the device to a new one with "better" specs and possibly higher prices.
Thus the only choice today is to max out the specs at order time to try and future proof the device for hopefully five years or so.
With my military discount, the maxed out Mac Studio with two Studio displays was around $10,000. My IIfx maxed out with a 21" color monitor ands 8" hard dive cost about $10,000 in 1990 dollars.
Due to the loss of purchasing power of the dollar over the last 30 years, my new system is the same number in depreciated dollars but light years ahead in computing power to the IIfx I had.
For the moment, it's hard to imagine the difference between m-imacpro and m-macpro.
Other than one has "internal" screen.
To me,
who likes to use mainly desktop computers and laptop will always be the secondary option with its tiny screen,
looks like Apple could pretty much ditch the whole desktop scene.
Studio can be for pros what Mini used to be for the rest of us.
There's no big imac, so even if one will come, we have learned that Apple does not need to sell it, in their numbers they don't even notice that it has been missing for a year. (Or two, if you think how much people wanted to buy an intel mac in 2021.)
With desktop computer, there's usually a display to be bought.
Apple's 27" might be the worst money-features-ratio display you can buy from the market now.
Bigger one is also overpriced, but also old.
I guess there won't be anything happening in that front for years?
Or might there be a "rebranded" 32" with -$500 in the pricetag?
Other than one has "internal" screen.
To me,
who likes to use mainly desktop computers and laptop will always be the secondary option with its tiny screen,
looks like Apple could pretty much ditch the whole desktop scene.
Studio can be for pros what Mini used to be for the rest of us.
There's no big imac, so even if one will come, we have learned that Apple does not need to sell it, in their numbers they don't even notice that it has been missing for a year. (Or two, if you think how much people wanted to buy an intel mac in 2021.)
With desktop computer, there's usually a display to be bought.
Apple's 27" might be the worst money-features-ratio display you can buy from the market now.
Bigger one is also overpriced, but also old.
I guess there won't be anything happening in that front for years?
Or might there be a "rebranded" 32" with -$500 in the pricetag?
I almost got a few of these for the office, but then the plain jane iMac was upgraded and outperformed the Pro, and Apple never upgraded the Pro again, making it look like they’d abandoned it AGAIN. I put the maxed out standard iMacs in instead, and though it’s a little more effort, upgraded internally as needed.
I remember thinking the space gray looked slick and stealthy at the time, but now having used space gray mbp’s, it just looks dark and depressing. I guess I’m glad I didn’t bite.
I remember thinking the space gray looked slick and stealthy at the time, but now having used space gray mbp’s, it just looks dark and depressing. I guess I’m glad I didn’t bite.
An iMac with some ports and a useable desktop size display can be yours for as little as €6K. We just know they'll do this. Thanks for pricing people out of the iMac.
The Cube was not very powerful, that things silent design held it back. And don't forget that the PowerMac G4 was based on the same design of the B&W PowerMac G3 so that is another exception.
IMO the aluminum body iMacs (pro and consumer) are still by far the best looking iMac designs.
They make the current iMac design seem childish.
They make the current iMac design seem childish.
The iMac G4 was the first iMac that I was blown away by, that thing was a masterpiece in design. I remember that stupid Gateway Profile 4 commercial that tried to make fun of it and I had PC friends that fell in love with the iMac G4 design because of the negative Gateway ad. Now look where Gateway is..
So does pro mean:
Probably
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Probably
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For me, the tragedy is the hole in Apple's desktop offerings between a maxed-out 24" iMac and the Studio/Studio Display. I wish they would offer a 24" iMac with an M1 Pro chip.
My ( still going strong ) 2015 27" imac is my fav apple product. The sheer stupidity at Apple in deciding to drop this size or bigger allinone desktop and selling only the little kids version of the 24" is astounding. This form factor is simple, clean and works extremely well. 6000 versions of rinkydink laptops or 6000 dollars for an equivalent with separate monitor along with cables etc is mindblowingly unApple, Steve would freak. Then there is , as referenced in comments before me, Apple's constantly poor support of high end desk tops with constant deletions of models does not leave me with much faith in their new " studio" lines.
Sold mine just recently to part fund a 16” MBP. It’s the only Apple product (to date) that I’ve actually reluctantly sold on.
To be honest, the currently offered iMac is a mess for anything other than home users. Lack of ports, the stupid external power brick/ethernet cluster, the white bezel, only 24" screen offering. We ordered over a 100 of these things, and I can't wait for them to be gone. Whomever designed the power brick needs to go back to design class. Trying to shove a smooth, shiny power adapter into a smooth shiny power brick does not work. It pops out all the time without even being tugged to the point where we have gone the route of gluing them in. The Mac Studio is way better bang for the buck for our folks who need a desktop, and so we have been pushing folks to that model instead.
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Bring the iMac back!
iMac will stay iconic. Always ahead of its time. I hope Apple will be updating the iMac in 2023.
iMac will stay iconic. Always ahead of its time. I hope Apple will be updating the iMac in 2023.
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That doesn't sound bad at all! You're also free to keep using that nice monitor with a Mac Studio or something. Decoupling the CPU from the monitor adds clutter but it really makes upgrading less painful.