Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"
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#2I’m disappointed they chose “pretty” over a “functional” metal box like the old Mac Pros. They ran into thermal issues with the fancy design of the trash can, despite their promises of cutting edge thermal design. These iMac Pros are probably going to be soldered-CPU, soldered-RAM beasts with low repairability.
It's a bit of a small victory that they support external GPUs, but I think they are missing the boat here.
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#3From what pro users wanted - this makes it worse, not better.
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#4I'm watching this iMac announcement and .. hm, I still find it underwhelming. The top-spec'd iMac will be less powerful (when it comes to CPU) in Jan/2018 than my current desktop I bought in mid-2015. We'll see the actual pricing though.
I don't think that forcing high-perf components into a small desktop chassis makes a lot of sense, but it might me only me.
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#5I just can't believe they chose the 18-core 2018 Intel vaporware chip [1] over this year's 16-core AMD Threadripper. Very strange decision on Apple's part. Not to mention they could've sold the iMac Pro for like $1,000 less.
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#6I’m disappointed they chose “pretty” over a “functional” metal box like the old Mac Pros. They ran into thermal issues with the fancy design of the trash can, despite their promises of cutting edge thermal design. These iMac Pros are probably going to be soldered-CPU, soldered-RAM beasts with low repairability. It's a bit of a small victory that they support external GPUs, but I think they are missing the boat here.
Agreed. Pretty is not everything. Many of us just need a practical and flexible machine to work with.
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#7It is interesting that they have gone this direction, since Pros were clearly asking for something more akin to the cheese gater. The price for the entry-level model is also pretty bad.
It's also a shame that the Mac Mini seems to be dead (at least no updates in the keynote).
At least the MacBook and iMac line got nice bumps.
Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"
#8I’m disappointed they chose “pretty” over a “functional” metal box like the old Mac Pros. They ran into thermal issues with the fancy design of the trash can, despite their promises of cutting edge thermal design. These iMac Pros are probably going to be soldered-CPU, soldered-RAM beasts with low repairability. It's a bit of a small victory that they support external GPUs, but I think they are missing the boat here.
This is the stopgap. They said there'll be a real Pro in 2018.
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#9This is Apple's answer to their negligence to the Pro market, and it's hugely disappointing.
The iMac was already supposed to be a Pro machine. And then they "New Coke"'d it by making it too thin and susceptible to overheating. Performance suffered and now they're compensating with this machine.
At $5000 the iMac Pro falls just short of a ~$2000 Hackintosh. It's still locked into the thin form factor that can't be upgraded and does not vent heat well enough. I'm sure this works for big companies like Disney where machines are replaced every few years. However as a developer, a Pro user, I've never felt more validated in my choice to switch away from Apple's hardware.
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#10I don't think an equivalent PC really costs $7000 USD....