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

Abazigal said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1372194188809232386

Comments like this kinda make me wonder.

At the time when everyone was clamouring for a Pro Mac and kinda pressured Apple into releasing one, Apple had to have already been working on ARM Macs, and knew that their performance would (eventually) be way better than any Intel PC on the market.

The Mac Pro is not going to suddenly stop working the moment an M1 Mac Pro is released, and Apple was being honest in that they did release the most powerful Mac they had at the time. The irony is that this likely won’t mean much for long, not because it was bad, but because of how quickly it promises to be obsoleted by the newer M1 Macs that Apple has to offer.

This is different from simply offering a spec upgrade on the imac and calling it a day. Apple went through the trouble of redesigning just about every aspect of the Mac Pro. Replete with offering massive 6k displays to complement it as well.

Of course Apple wasn’t going to show their hand there and then, but it does play into a common recurring trend I see where self-styled “professional” mac users seem to be continuously at odds with what Apple is willing to offer.

I also can’t help but wonder just how much man hours went into designing the Mac Pro, and whether it was really worth it in the end (all these resources could have been channeled into other projects with more potential and a longer lifespan).

In hindsight, pro users should have just tried to make do with the iMac Pro instead of fighting for a Mac Pro that most couldn’t even afford. The M1 Pro Macs would have been worth the wait.

I am not sure if there’s even a point to my musings. Just an observation I wanted to get out there, and why I am thankful I have held off on getting a new Macbook all this while. Meanwhile, my 2017 5k imac will be about 4 years old in July, and is still going strong, but if Apple announces new M1 iMacs, I would nevertheless be extremely tempted to spring for one.

Fusion drives really are the pits.
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and it an iMac Pro was not good enough then it could have been supplemented by a Threadripper machine.

Spent a few hours yesterday looking at ‘high end’ PC alternatives - mainly out of interest - but is is scary how much performance can be purchased with a custom build compared to a well stacked MP. I’ve been Mac as primary machine for years. But what 10-15k can buy elsewhere is quite compelling tbh. Will hold off seeing what the Apple Silicon offerings look like before pulling major triggers on any major Apple investment again I think.
 
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macinfojunkie said:
and it an iMac Pro was not good enough then it could have been supplemented by a Threadripper machine.

Spent a few hours yesterday looking at ‘high end’ PC alternatives - mainly out of interest - but is is scary how much performance can be purchased with a custom build compared to a well stacked MP. I’ve been Mac as primary machine for years. But what 10-15k can buy elsewhere is quite compelling tbh. Will hold off seeing what the Apple Silicon offerings look like before pulling major triggers on any major Apple investment again I think.
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I do wonder just how much of the Mac Pro’s price tag goes towards that enclosure. Can’t have been cheap, what more with the Mac Pro being a low volume product.
 
Abazigal said:
I do wonder just how much of the Mac Pro’s price tag goes towards that enclosure. Can’t have been cheap, what more with the Mac Pro being a low volume product.
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I think Apple didn’t want to make the Mac Pro, came up with the iMac Pro, people still hollered for the Mac Pro, so they made it knowing it had a limited lifespan and priced it to drive people away who would not absolutely benefit from it as it was designed. They knew Apple Silicon was coming and wanted to trim down the baggage for the transition. Pro clients squawked so loud, they had to listen, albeit begrudgingly. Here we are!
 
blazerunner said:
poor airflow/cooling.
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Not really. The amazing cooling is pretty much the only reason I went from a 16" Macbook Pro to an iMac Pro. It's dead silent even when rendering video or doing audio work.

smulji said:
Actually, the iMac Pro had great airflow and cooling. It's the 27" iMac (non-Pro) that has poor airflow / cooling.
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Indeed. It's most silent and cool Mac I've owned in a little over 10 years.
 
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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 according to the lengthy article from macrumors, they explained thoroughly that they are not selling it max pro anymore, just read any one of the 8 paragraphs.
 
I’m not sure what all this talk of “business” computing is about where people are buying copious amounts of iMac Pros every 3 years. I work at a business, and we have a choice between a dell tower, a Mac mini, and a low end 27” iMac as a work machine. I went with a 6 core 27” iMac in 2019, and I likely won’t get an upgrade until the machine is no longer supported by the latest MacOS. I’m expecting somewhere around 2025. We are currently running plenty of Dell towers from as early as 2009. They run windows 10 fine. Anything that a local machine can’t handle we can run on the cluster.

edit: I have an iMac Pro at home too. It’s amazing, and hopefully will work for many many years.
 
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nt5672 said:
Who in their right mind would pay that much for glued together box that is going to work well only for a couple of years. Well, not me and I like spending money.
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Businesses that's who. Because. Time Savings.
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Not businesses. They want commitment and a reliable, mapped out, long term strategy for the hardware they commit their future to. Something that's not been available from Apple since before the "revolutionary" professional trash can was released (and then never updated).
 
While it's too bad, especially because that was such a sweet-looking machine for graphics/video-intensive work, I do know for a fact that the "regular" 27" Retina iMac was popular with professionals for quite some time, with its' great graphics processing, easy-to-replace RAM, and a beautiful large display. This is most likely why Apple came out with the iMac Pro in the first place.
 
So, I waited years for them to release an up-to-date Mac Pro before finally deciding that they had informally discontinued it due to lack of any information out of Apple, and I bought an iMac Pro instead, reading that most people felt was the change in direction for Mac Pro users. Within a few months, they released a new Mac Pro, and now they've discontinued the iMac Pro I begrudgingly purchased to begin with which is now probably worth a lot less than a non-discontinued machine. One thing's for sure, I'm not running out to buy any new macs.
 
I'm also "not running out to buy any new macs" soon. My iMac Pro is so awesome I'll keep using it for quite a few years.
 
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