LOL 5K for a disposable computer.
I guess they will sell 10-15 of these 5,000 dollar iMacs.
This means no Mac Pro towers/standalone computers in the future. Looks like Apple has abandoned the standalone systems. Its either an iMac or a laptop.
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LOL 5K for a disposable computer.
I guess they will sell 10-15 of these 5,000 dollar iMacs.
This means no Mac Pro towers/standalone computers in the future. Looks like Apple has abandoned the standalone systems. Its either an iMac or a laptop.
No, Apple have said that they are working on a new Mac Pro, this announcement changes nothing for the Mac Pro
Apple have already confirmed a new Mac Pro is coming next year. And if the iMac Pro is this powerful, consider what kind of beast the Mac Pro will need to be.
Yep, at $5K and 18 cores, I'm not sure we'll see a Mac Pro much, if at all, below that.
And holy hell, that price tag. I'm curious what processor the base will be, the $1000, 10 core 7900X? So each processor bump is probably going to cost you $400-$500. Making the 18 core, if no other upgrades, a $7K computer?
I was wondering that, but given how they said this new iMac Pro will be the most powerful mac ever - I wonder if this is THE new Mac 'Pro' ....
This is probably the Mac Pro they were talking about. Think about it. It makes sense that Apple wants to sell two formats. All in one computers or laptops and no stand alone computers. Margins are significantly higher on the all in one systems.
Great logic, Apple will never ever make a more powerful computer in the future, this is the end, this is the mother of all computer in its final form...
This is almost certainly what they were referring to. Cant imagine they will release a traditional Mac Pro now.
No - because they said an iMac Pro was coming before the new Mac Pro.
We just didn't expect the iMac Pro to have anything like the performance it will have.
Judging by the popularity of the iMac and calls for more power, the iMac Pro is a quick, down and dirty answer to many of the issues.
No it isn't. Apple said that a new Mac Pro was coming in 2018 and that there would be an iMac Pro in late 2017.
Exactly.
On a side not. Radeon Vega appears to have 1350 MHz core clock on the iMac.
Plenty of production houses use iMacs. South Park Studios makes each episode on them, for example.
Then there is all the scientific disciplines that use iMacs.
The iMac Pro is going to be very important to them.
Apple already said there will be another Mac Pro. Not sure why some people act like this is the end of it.
That price though... wow. I'm just not sure bundling a monitor with an 10-18 core computer is going to have a lot of people jumping to buy the thing.
And what do you expect from a machine that has 8 core Xeon CPU, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and >500$ GPU with 5K monitor?