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iMac Pro Officially Discontinued, Removed From Apple's Site and No Longer Available for Purchase

Mr. Dee said:
Come on there has got to be one last one somewhere, some how. Anyway, this is probably a sign of something special coming at the March/April event that’s way faster.
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Not really; they would have cancelled it the day the Mx-based iMacs were announced if that was the case.

Apple is just cleaning house of low volume products that have much higher selling alternatives - Homepod vs Homepod Mini, iMac Pro vs maxed-out iMac.

iMac Pro had it's days numbered as well due to Mx transition - Apple likely will need another generation or two in order to have something that is a 'performance multiplier' over the chip they put in the baseline iMac, and businesses have to realize that this transition includes Apple eventually dropping Intel CPU support. So the Intel iMac Pro becomes a slower, more expensive model that has less usable lifetime.

Plus, the iMac Pro's biggest selling point was that it needed a custom cooling solution for the beefy CPU/GPU parts - it will be a while before Apple has the same problem with Mx chips.
 
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Considering the recent news even the M1 thing looks kind of blurry right now.
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What news?


The good news is that it is clear that there will be no replacement. That is sad as I love my iMac Pro. Don't want to mess with internal hardware or monitor, price was reasonable as compared to other vendor's equivalent systems at the time.

Now I'm in a quandary. The iMac Pro was midway between the iMac and the new Mac Pro, giving a good price/performance ratio for its specifications. My 18 core iMac Pro with 128 GB of memory gives similar performance as a Mac Pro 16 core for thousands of dollars less, if you include monitor cost, in a small package which fits on my desk and doesn't need wheels.

If the rumored small MacPro will be its equivalent in the cost/performance area, that will likely mean a long wait. Probably at the end of the 2 year transition period. I assume the same for the iMac line, the best performing one will be at the end of the period. Multiple SOCs (?) for high cpu counts, large amounts of memory both for cpu and graphics will require a lot of time to develop. So does one wait a year+ for the small MacPro or ....
 
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If you turn on Classic Invert, the above screen looks like it has been hit by a bullet.
 
HDFan said:
What news?



The good news is that it is clear that there will be no replacement. That is sad as I love my iMac Pro. Don't want to mess with internal hardware or monitor, price was reasonable as compared to other vendor's equivalent systems at the time.

Now I'm in a quandary. The iMac Pro was midway between the iMac and the new Mac Pro, giving a good price/performance ratio for its specifications. My 18 core iMac Pro with 128 GB of memory gives similar performance as a Mac Pro 16 core for thousands of dollars less, if you include monitor cost, in a small package which fits on my desk and doesn't need wheels.

If the rumored small MacPro will be its equivalent in the cost/performance area, that will likely mean a long wait. Probably at the end of the 2 year transition period. I assume the same for the iMac line, the best performing one will be at the end of the period. Multiple SOCs (?) for high cpu counts, large amounts of memory both for cpu and graphics will require a lot of time to develop. So does one wait a year+ for the small MacPro or ....
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AMD has some nice HCC CPUs for a pretty good value on their Epyc and Threadripper lines...
 
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Being a 'Pro' model, you'll be able to replace the iMac Pro's processor and graphics card. I'm sure Apple will bring out some upgrades soon… perhaps…
 
macinfojunkie said:
I do find it strange all the negativity and ‘won’t be missed’ posts - which I can only imagine are from people who have never owned one.
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I can only imagine is from you who have never owned a M1 Mac. 18 core intel is useless, who will be dumb enough to get a iMac Pro? And it needs someone working for 6 month to pay itself off? What kind of low grade job is that? We will not miss iMac Pro. It’s for stupid people.
 
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dcny said:
I can only imagine is from you who have never owned a M1 Mac. 18 core intel is useless, who will be dumb enough to get a iMac Pro? And it needs someone working for 6 month to pay itself off? What kind of low grade job is that? We will not miss iMac Pro. It’s for stupid people.
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I cant work out if this a joke post or not......
 
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I hope Apple gives us back Target Display Mode so we can use our iMac as a monitor once it’s obsolete. If we get that I will consider replacing my M1 MBA for a 27” iMac. Loves the big screen.

EDIT: Oops I thought this is a thread about Apple silicon iMac.
 
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HDFan said:
Now I'm in a quandary. The iMac Pro was midway between the iMac and the new Mac Pro, giving a good price/performance ratio for its specifications. My 18 core iMac Pro with 128 GB of memory gives similar performance as a Mac Pro 16 core for thousands of dollars less, if you include monitor cost, in a small package which fits on my desk and doesn't need wheels.
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The problem is that if Apple releases a Mx-based iMac, the imac pro becomes very unattractive. The Pro will likely cost 2x as much, benchmark slower, and have a shorter life-to-replacement as Apple stops supporting x86_64.

There are businesses which would still buy it (especially as a machine capable of running 32 and 64-bit intel binaries as part of established workflows), but it would look really odd in the line-up for a year or more until Apple is ready for a "pro workstation" class silicon chip.

The overall design of the iMac pro is likely dead because Apple will not need that degree of cooling for Mx chips.
HDFan said:
If the rumored small MacPro will be its equivalent in the cost/performance area, that will likely mean a long wait. Probably at the end of the 2 year transition period. I assume the same for the iMac line, the best performing one will be at the end of the period. Multiple SOCs (?) for high cpu counts, large amounts of memory both for cpu and graphics will require a lot of time to develop. So does one wait a year+ for the small MacPro or ....
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As a proud owner of a base configged iMac Pro, I hope they let the space grey die with it, and not bring it over to new models of the standard iMac. This would help make it desirable collector’s item as the only desktop Mac ever in space grey. Apple could do some other cool color options for future iMacs, but retire the space grey!
 
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I know some people loved this thing, and it was unique enough, but $5,000 starting point was just too much money for an un-upgradeable computer in my opinion.

For those that had the dough to blow though, it was a nice conversation-piece, bragging-rights, cool-looking (and quite capable) machine.

Bye, Felicia.

I will add you to my digital collection of favorite cool-but-doomed Macs, next to the 20" tablelamp, the Cube, the Tube, and the iPod iMac.

Thanks for the memories.
 
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With this news, and the recent price drop of existing iMacs among many retailers, surely this points to a new M-Series iMac at the next live event (April?). What excites me about this is not just the new model, but presumably we'll see the next M chip? And will that same chip be in the next MBPs later this year? April could be huge.
 
code-m said:
An apparent stopgap until the redesigned MacPro towers were ready for release.
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I wonder if pro users will want to get burned a third time after the failed 2011 trash can and the 2018 Mac Pro that was again abandoned so quickly. I would hate to have dropped 50k for a Mac Pro only two years ago, not having any upgrade paths and Apple Silicon around the corner.

I do understand they can’t offer Apple Silicon to the 2018 Mac Pro’s but it’s not like they have been quick to introduce other processors or graphic cards either. Apple has gotten in this bad habit of abandoning users and product lines very quickly.

Their smart home strategy is murky as well.
 
dcny said:
I can only imagine is from you who have never owned a M1 Mac. 18 core intel is useless, who will be dumb enough to get a iMac Pro? And it needs someone working for 6 month to pay itself off? What kind of low grade job is that? We will not miss iMac Pro. It’s for stupid people.
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please tell me how I would have used an M1 iMac Pro in 2017 and used it to run Windows VMs. If you can explain that one - then I will concede you are right.
Never said the machine made sense for everyone today - it is a 4 year old model! But it did make sense to some people back in the day and still works very well indeed today. The fact that an M1 device will cost 20% of price tag and perform almost as well does not change that. M2x or whatever is needed to compete with it in terms of capability does not exist. When it does then the argument is over. In the meantime 18 core Mac is faster and more flexible. Those are facts at the moment. Those facts will change.

Don’t worry there will be ‘expensive’ apple high end Macs to be loathed because they are out of reach again. These chap M1s are just the beginning.

BTW - with regards to paying off.... do you realise that sometimes new business take time to get off the ground?
It earns its price tag 2 to 3 times a month now. Stupid people make near 5 figures a week from dead machine lol.
 
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macinfojunkie said:
i hope the Mac Pro gets one last intel speed bump or spec adjustment before it goes the same way. I know a very slim chance!. Sure there will be an Mx machine that trounces it at some point. But I want onenlast high power intel mac to protect my workflow. I’ll buy the AS machine to run alongside it for sure. And when the time is right retire the intel machines.
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I would've said this was almost guaranteed to happen... Until Intel started attacking Apple, making it in my eyes very unlikely there will any new Mac with an Intel chip in the grace period up to Apple Silicon on all
 
dcny said:
18 core intel is useless,
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Have you ever done a render or other high cpu load activity where your cpus are pegged near 3600%? Certainly not useless in its era, and still quite useful today.

Geekbench

iMac Pro 18 cpu 1089/13010

MacPro 28 core - /19177
MacMini M1 1602/6521
iMac 10 core 1247/9015


The 18 core iMacPro still has the best Mac multi core performance in geekbench, other than the 28 core MacPro which costs at least 2x as much. So an iMacPro replacement is going to have to (double?) those numbers for approximately the same cost as the original.

Of course single core performance is slower than current systems, and you can get graphics performance on a fully configured MacPro that will blow it away. We'll have to see if the M1 iMacs will have a model which has high core counts (maybe 28?) and medium high memory (128-512 GB) that would it a good replacement for an iMac Pro. My very speculative guess is that won't happen, and those of use which fit into the iMac Pro niche will have to wait for the mini MacPro.
 
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