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Still using 2017 iMac Pro models

bakron1

bakron1

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I switched to Mac back in 2006 when my business partner and I got tired of dealing with networking issues using the Windows platform for our technical documentation business. We started with the intel based iMacs and a server running windows server and the Mac desktops connected to the server without having to configure several software drivers like we had to using windows back then and once we installed the MS Office suite and adobe photoshop on them, our workflow improved a 100 percent and we never looked back.

Since then we have closed the business down, semi retired and I still do technical documentation and my photography using my iMac pro 27 2017 model. The first one I bought a few years back was a 3.0 10 core xeon model with 32 gig of ram and a 1TB flash drive and it performed flawlessly for several years. I recently went to an estate sale and they had a iMac Pro 3.2 8 core xeon with 64 gigs of ram and a 2TB flash drive like new with the original box for $1000 bucks, so I snapped it up and it is my current machine and as I expected, it run perfectly.

I know these are older machines, but they still run perfectly and support the hardware I need for my small business and I love the look of the iMac pro. I don't regret switching to Mac and IOS many years ago and have never looked back. Glad to be part of the Mac Rumors community now.
 
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iMac Pro was certainly a nice machine. It's getting a little long in the tooth now, I probably wouldn't recommend it for someone to start out with (especially since it's likely going to be losing updated macOS support fairly soon) but it'll suit you fine for at least another couple or three years before Apple stops releasing security updates.

The "modern" equivalent would be an M4 Pro Mac mini or a Mac Studio with Apple Studio Display. And you ain't getting either of those combos for $1000!
 
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FreakinEurekan said:
iMac Pro was certainly a nice machine. It's getting a little long in the tooth now, I probably wouldn't recommend it for someone to start out with (especially since it's likely going to be losing updated macOS support fairly soon) but it'll suit you fine for at least another couple or three years before Apple stops releasing security updates.

The "modern" equivalent would be an M4 Pro Mac mini or a Mac Studio with Apple Studio Display. And you ain't getting either of those combos for $1000!
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Yep, I know it will have support for at least the next couple of years and by then I will be ready for a new machine anyways, but for the time being its still a nice powerful machine for what I use it for which is mainly desktop publishing, Lightroom and Photoshop for my digital photography work.
 
bakron1 said:
I switched to Mac back in 2006 when my business partner and I got tired of dealing with networking issues using the Windows platform for our technical documentation business. We started with the intel based iMacs and a server running windows server and the Mac desktops connected to the server without having to configure several software drivers like we had to using windows back then and once we installed the MS Office suite and adobe photoshop on them, our workflow improved a 100 percent and we never looked back.

Since then we have closed the business down, semi retired and I still do technical documentation and my photography using my iMac pro 27 2017 model. The first one I bought a few years back was a 3.0 10 core xeon model with 32 gig of ram and a 1TB flash drive and it performed flawlessly for several years. I recently went to an estate sale and they had a iMac Pro 3.2 8 core xeon with 64 gigs of ram and a 2TB flash drive like new with the original box for $1000 bucks, so I snapped it up and it is my current machine and as I expected, it run perfectly.

I know these are older machines, but they still run perfectly and support the hardware I need for my small business and I love the look of the iMac pro. I don't regret switching to Mac and IOS many years ago and have never looked back. Glad to be part of the Mac Rumors community now.
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It's a great device. Most importantly, it's still fully supported by Apple with Mac OS Sequoia. I wouldn't call it an 'older' machine, since it was top-of-range at the time, so it doesn't age like other Macs.

It so nice to be able to enjoy and love your workstation, you don't get that with PC and Windows :)

Have you sold your previous iMac Pro? How much did you get for it?
 
I bought a base model five months ago and it's my favorite desktop. It sits next to my Mac Studio with 3 4k monitors. My favorite screen to use is on the iMac because of the display, speakers, and microphones. Anything that requires a lot of performance runs on the Studio, but I run office stuff and video editing on the iMac Pro.

There are a couple for sale in New York City and I'd like to buy either if I could pick one up in Boston.
 
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Andrey84 said:
It's a great device. Most importantly, it's still fully supported by Apple with Mac OS Sequoia. I wouldn't call it an 'older' machine, since it was top-of-range at the time, so it doesn't age like other Macs.

It so nice to be able to enjoy and love your workstation, you don't get that with PC and Windows :)

Have you sold your previous iMac Pro? How much did you get for it?
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I sold my older iMac pro for $800 to a guy who was needing a cheap machine for some work he was doing down in Mexico, it was a similar machine only with 32 gig or ram, 8 gig video and a 1TB flash dive, so I feel I got a great upgrade for the extra $200 I had to put in for my latest iMac pro which as 64 gig of ram, 16 gig video and a 2TB flash drive. I also checked the cycle count time with the "ac" command in terminal and my iMac pro I just bought only had 550, so it was hardly used.
 
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bakron1 said:
I sold my older iMac pro for $800 to a guy who was needing a cheap machine for some work he was doing down in Mexico, it was a similar machine only with 32 gig or ram, 8 gig video and a 1TB flash dive, so I feel I got a great upgrade for the extra $200 I had to put in for my latest iMac pro which as 64 gig of ram, 16 gig video and a 2TB flash drive. I also checked the cycle count time with the "ac" command in terminal and my iMac pro I just bought only had 550, so it was hardly used.
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Lovely upgrade for $200. My wife has a maxed-out 2020 27" iMac: 10-core Core i9, 128GB RAM, 5700XT 16GB video, 2TB SSD + nano-textured screen. It's a monster, very similar to your iMac.

Yours also looks cool in that dark finish, in addition to high performance :)
 
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I have an imac pro, wondering if there is an "ideal" Mac OS version to run it with... Any sauce on this?


...Perhaps it is linux
 
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