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iMac Pro May Feature Intel's Server-Grade 'Purley' Processors, ARM Coprocessor
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Then you misinterpreted his comment. Steve Jobs likened it to trucks and cars. Very few people use a truck but there will always be a need for them. This is the figurative truck.
It's incredibly short sighted to think that because you can't justify the usage, that means nobody else can.
There are people whose workflow requires this hardware power and a full-blooded mouse & keyboard OS with practically limitless desktop applications.
Xeon. AMD GPU. iMac form factor.
Heat dissipation issues? No, never!
Watch the WWDC, they had to remake the iMac's thermal design.
Genuinely curious, what "important work" do you do that can be done on an iPad? More over, whatever that is, why did you have a Mac Pro then? It must have been complete overkill if you can accomplish the same task on an iPad..
The iMac Pro is going to be one of those computers that a bunch of people who don't need, nor will ever use the power they possess, buy them for bragging rights and because the dark gray aluminum looks cool. I wish I had a need for something like it, but I'm just not doing any graphics intense design work now.
I don't know how much this has been discussed already but I have to say that the space gray finish is insanely nice. Not nice enough to buy a computer that is well beyond my needs, but still incredibly nice.
What are the chances that Apple will eventually offer the regular iMac in space gray or other colors? Probably not much, right? I mean, this clearly is a nice way to differentiate the two categories.
What are the chances that Apple will eventually offer the regular iMac in space gray or other colors? Probably not much, right? I mean, this clearly is a nice way to differentiate the two categories.
According to HPC journals they're seeing better than linear scaling performance in a cluster environment. Nearly 3x performance by just doubling the number of nodes and only limited by thunderbolt interconnect.
That made me spit out my coffee and I wasn't even drinking any.
Even for my modest uses, and even as damned good as the iPad Pro is (and holy crap it's a damned good tablet) I certainly couldn't use it with LPX in tandem with loads of plugins, audio in & MIDI plugged in simultaneously, with mic splitters, monitors, or external DAC... and that's again, pretty modest usage.
I just about get my with my 15" 2012, and though of course it could be quicker, I get by. Yet that's not even touching some of the "Pro" use people do around here.
TL;DR: yeah, just amazed at that comment about an iPad Pro being an apt replacement for a Mac Pro.
Yeah, wow. What a comment. I'm pretty sure it's trolling. I refuse to believe that this person means it.
No doubt about it, fellas. 'Tis just a joke. I don't doubt that Apple has pored over this issue already (@Zirel -- I watched WWDC; that new thermal design is awesome!). @Bigsk8r, I agree. I wonder if Apple could just find a way to dissipate the heat evenly over the entire back of the iMac? I mean, that is a LOT of surface area through which to dissipate heat.
Yes, try using Davinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, XCode or CAD on an iPad Pro. The fact that you think an iPad Pro is a proper replacement for this iMac Pro speaks far more about you than the products.
ya don't have to be these days. Apple consistently makes computers with major defects these last few years sadly
I'm sure your 4k live editing on the go is going smoothly on the Pro.
If you have server grade processors and ECC RAM, I wonder exactly how much extra reliability you get? I would imagine the improvements would be so small they are difficult to measure, yet the cost more than doubles. For video editors and photographers, a large proportion of pro Mac hardware customers, I wonder how many really feel they need these things? Perhaps $5K isn't significant to a lot of businesses, so they feel it is worth the marginal improvements they bring. As a photography enthusiast, I wish this thing had an i9 and regular RAM. Or even the new 8 core AMD chip. I am dreaming I know, but it would be nice to be able to buy an insanely powerful Mac for a realistic price.
I'm very curious how they're managing to cool this beast. one of the problems I've seen reported about the current iMac's running i7's, is that they do thermal throttle quite a bit when under consistent load.
the iMac pro is going to put out a significant amount more heat. So the cooling system for 2017 iMac Pro's (and even maybe iMac) must have received a significant cooling upgrade. Wondering, if thats the case, could the i7-7700k get a decent overclock with the new cooling...
I edit some audio (podcasts) and videos, complex spreadsheets, building out presentations, writing, some social media. I'm definitely not your average user who surfs the web and checks a few emails.
Reliability from using server class components must be significant to get by with only one power supply.
I think for 99% of people an iPad Pro is the perfect professional tool. But admittedly yes, some people may still need the power of a true desktop for the time being as new apps arrive - but that number dependent on old computers reduces every day.
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It is possible yes.
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It isn't an apt replacement for everyone yet, probably. But it is getting there at a rapid pace.
Fair enough, though based on your workload, you could have just had a Mac Mini.
so... if your Mac Pro is collecting dust, can I have it?