Or some moron Youtuber trys to Blend it or buys it just to destroy to see how durable it is.Countdown to when some oil prince in Dubai buys a $13K configuration for his cat...just to say he could.
It's not but thanks for playing. Vega may be slower but it's not that much slower and is quite the performer. There is a reason all the crypto miners buy them.Except Vega is a DOG SLOW TURD compared to Nvidia. Also many PRO apps only support gpu acceleration via CUDA. (nvidia) I still don’t get Apple?!
Were you hit in the head with a brick before posting this? You can build an $80k Windows workstation. With these components, the iMac pro costs exactly what it should cost.I can’t imagine the component parts of a Windows machine ever coming to a total of $13k.
Mac is a convenience platform, not a power platform. Whoever spends that much on a Mac is crazy, and whoever thought those prices would sell is even crazier. That’s why the trashcan Mac Pro didn’t sell, and that’s why I believe this one won’t either.
Well Dell is almost as over priced as Apple is. Bad example.
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.
Love how Apple is pushing the envelope on price. There are lots of people with money who just want to spend. As an investor in Apple, this is fantastic. As a consumer, there is probably more to complain about if you aren't one of the people ready to overpay.
Most of the main broadcasters in the UK use Avid MC.People complaining about the price need to realise that the iMac Pro isn't aimed at the average consumer, we are talking professional editors, content creators and so on. Movie studios will buy these, it is not very often you see a Windows machine in the editing labs (at least not here in the UK).
A long time ago (late 90s / early 2000s), I recall the claim being made that most PSUs are the most efficient at 80% of their rating. Is that not still true?
$13k....lol
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.
Most of the main broadcasters in the UK use Avid MC.
I can’t imagine the component parts of a Windows machine ever coming to a total of $13k.
Mac is a convenience platform, not a power platform. Whoever spends that much on a Mac is crazy, and whoever thought those prices would sell is even crazier. That’s why the trashcan Mac Pro didn’t sell, and that’s why I believe this one won’t either.
GamePC (Silicon Valley company that makes custom workstations) has Xeon W listed in their prices.
iMac Pro - $9,599 (same configuration that MKBHD had)
GamePC GMT-W7/300 - $6,514 (PC) + $1,299 (Dell UP2715K display) = $7,813
- Intel Xeon W-2155 (downclocked)
- Radeon Pro Vega 64 16 GB HBM2 (downclocked)
- 128 GB DDR4-2666 ECC
- 2 TB PCIe NVMe SSD
- 10 Gb network card
- MacOS
- 1 year warranty
That's $1,786 less for a more powerful workstation that can be upgraded and won't have thermal throttling.
- Intel Xeon W-2155
- Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition (Vega 64) 16 GB HBM2
- 128 GB DDR4-2666 ECC
- 2 TB PCIe NVMe SSD
- 10 Gb network card (2x)
- Windows 10 Pro
- 1 year warranty