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iMac Pro Now Available to Order With 8 to 18 Cores and Prices Ranging From $4,999 to $13,199
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Most pro machines never are. They're ordered with the options maxed and when they need an upgrade, they buy a new machine. This holds true for those on the Windows side too.
You're insane. You can spec a Dell Workstation up to 15K+. go build one yourself and then note that they're using last gen Xeons & GPUs and then keep in mind that doesn't come with a 5K monitor with P3 color gamut
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$12,207 with the education discount....
I've been in college for 25 years now. Thanks apple.
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You can configure a Power Mac over 20K for years now.
As usual, this thread is full of uneducated commentary, incorrect information, and it smells of jealousy by those that do not need or can not afford what this beautiful machine brings to the table.
Meanwhile, those of us that actually need this to do our job better and faster will quietly buy one and be marveled by the incredible tool now at our disposal. Thank you Apple for realigning your focus on creating a Mac for professional users and actually delivering it with reasonable prices.
Meanwhile, those of us that actually need this to do our job better and faster will quietly buy one and be marveled by the incredible tool now at our disposal. Thank you Apple for realigning your focus on creating a Mac for professional users and actually delivering it with reasonable prices.
Upgrading from 32GB 2666MHz DDR4 ECC memory to 64GB is 800$
the same 800$ as in regular iMac 32GB 2400MHz DDR4 NOT ECC to 64GB!!
the same 800$ as in regular iMac 32GB 2400MHz DDR4 NOT ECC to 64GB!!
A true "pro" user who would buy this machine is likely to make the money back in a week or two. A web developer could make this back in a month or two. So for a machine that you'll be using for at least two years (most likely three or four), the ROI isn't very long.
And also try pricing the components (and OS - Windows since macOS is "free") yourself. The price is competitive.
Right. The starting price & options do not seem extreme if you're the kind of person that iMac Pro was built for. If these prices seem extreme, you are not the demographic. I'm actually surprised there weren't any people saying they could built a gaming PC for cheaper. This is not a gaming machine either. This is a workstation for Video, Audio, photography, VR, scientific models, CAD and number crunching where multiple cores and lots of RAM benefit the workflow enough to save the person or company time (which is money) in the long run over a lower cost Mac.
The amount of people who will get a top-spec is very thin. Me personally, I spent $2,700 on my 5K iMac a year ago. The base iMac Pro is more powerful in every way and only $2,000 more. I'm looking forward to buying a used one on eBay in 2 years to replace my current iMac and I'm just a hobbyist in 4K video and RAW photos.
Win 10 is also free with a Win 7 or 8 key.
Yes the price is competitive for high end specs. But there are plenty of pros that don't need ore require the high end specs. Say a developer - they really don't need ECC memory or a super high end GPU but need many cores and much RAM and fast disk to run VMs and compile code.
I’m a pro doing neural network related projects, which is getting more and more popular. Without an Nvidia GPU, which is optimized for neural networks, the new iMac is useless. Bummer.
I've priced up an iMac Pro (in the UK) for photography editing and occasional video editing. I can't see that it needs to be maxed out as long as there's 64GB RAM and pushing 10 cores and some high end graphics. I c an get a machine at around £7500. Take into consideration the sale price of my current iMac and we're looking at £5K. I think that's well worth the outlay - I'd even be tempted to bump up the RAM to 128GB at that price.
Yes, but you have to have the 7 or 8 key first which you paid for. macOS truly is free if you've made a boot disk.
UK here. Just spec'd one the way I'd like it for non-video, heavy compute work, reasonable workhorse but not Porsche-level.
10 cores, 128GB RAM (I love ECC!) 2TB SSD, 8GB GPU, Magic Mouse... £8500. 2 weeks delivery. Colour me impressed.
Much less than I feared. Now to figure out how to pay for it for real...
10 cores, 128GB RAM (I love ECC!) 2TB SSD, 8GB GPU, Magic Mouse... £8500. 2 weeks delivery. Colour me impressed.
Much less than I feared. Now to figure out how to pay for it for real...
Well Dell is almost as over priced as Apple is. Bad example.
You could build your own for much less. Try a HP z workstation.
Now being a business owner myself we have mobile workstations, desktop workstations which are all upgradeable. Your $5000 goes much further than a imac pro. After three years its not so"pro" any more. Obsolescence is built in. On a modular workstation it's not.
Furthermore if you need to fix something on the fly during a busy work day you are basically shut down because of it until you get the problem fixed. Not so on a modular machine. Swap a part and off you go.
You could build your own for much less. Try a HP z workstation.
Now being a business owner myself we have mobile workstations, desktop workstations which are all upgradeable. Your $5000 goes much further than a imac pro. After three years its not so"pro" any more. Obsolescence is built in. On a modular workstation it's not.
Furthermore if you need to fix something on the fly during a busy work day you are basically shut down because of it until you get the problem fixed. Not so on a modular machine. Swap a part and off you go.
I am very curious if the iMac Pro can sustain high processing speeds over an extended length of time. It may do great in a bunch of limited benchmark tests, but as is the case with all iMacs and Macbook Pros, the compact body design limits cooling and as a result the processors tend to throttle themselves when they are given a heavy load over an extended period of time. You can see this happen in both the new Macbook Pro and the current iMac. There is not enough airflow or cooling happening internally so the processors simply have to cut back to keep cool. So can you edit and render 4k video for 8 hours on this machine and not any suffer speed losses? I seriously doubt it. While pretty, the iMac case is not the best design for power work stations. I don’t care what kind of thermal cooling jargon Apple spouts.
Couple that with Adobe’s poor support of multicore processing for almost all of its app, and you have a super expensive machine that has all these amazing components that you can never fully utilize.
I’ll be honest, I still want an iMac Pro. I work with massive video files every day and it will definitely be faster than any other Mac out there. But don’t be impressed by all the speed tests you start seeing on the internet. Seek out tests that show extended use over time, not just one-off benchmarks or quick rendering tests. Right out of the gate, the iMac Pro will smoke the competition, but an hour or two down the road the gains will be significantly reduced.
So how fast is the iMac Pro after it has heated up and you’ve been working on it for hours on end? That is the real question. I guess we will know soon enough.
Couple that with Adobe’s poor support of multicore processing for almost all of its app, and you have a super expensive machine that has all these amazing components that you can never fully utilize.
I’ll be honest, I still want an iMac Pro. I work with massive video files every day and it will definitely be faster than any other Mac out there. But don’t be impressed by all the speed tests you start seeing on the internet. Seek out tests that show extended use over time, not just one-off benchmarks or quick rendering tests. Right out of the gate, the iMac Pro will smoke the competition, but an hour or two down the road the gains will be significantly reduced.
So how fast is the iMac Pro after it has heated up and you’ve been working on it for hours on end? That is the real question. I guess we will know soon enough.
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I can say that now. First car cost $100, second $300, third $1kHow long now until we're able to write that about iPhone pricing?
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