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Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by heliumcraft »

rbanffy wrote: post #78
heliumcraft wrote: post #10

I don't think an equivalent PC really costs $7000 USD....

A Dell Precision 7000 will set you back US$3000 at a configuration similar to the iMac Pro. Add a good 27" 5K display, PCI-based SSD and you are close to US$ 6000 with a GPU that's a generation behind. And it comes with Windows. Nobody deserves that.

Wait, but Dell Precision 7000 is a laptop? you can't compare with a desktop. I just built a good gaming PC that can be overclocked including a GTX 1080 for just $2300 (monitor excluded).

I'm sure with $4700 more it's possible to get something still better than this new imac pro.. yet with a good cooling system and upgradable at any time.

edit: $2300 INCLUDING 15% taxes

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by orik »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #89
tomduncalf wrote: post #32

Gonna leave this here from the official press release as it seems quite a few people have missed this point: "In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest-end, high-throughput system in a modular design, as well as a new high-end pro display." https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/06/imac-pro-most-powerfu... Also…

It sounds like the target audience for the new Mac Pro will be people who can afford to spend $10k on a quad-CPU machine. I'm sure those people will be happy. But what I want is an upgradable / self-servicable machine that costs under $3k. I hope Apple isn't about to miss the plot again .

on an 18 core machine

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by masklinn »

aspirin wrote: post #18

I hope this isn't the "Mac Pro successor" Apple was alluding to earlier this year...

No it's not, in April they both talked about a modular Mac Pro which would ship "not this year" (the iMac Pro is slated to ship in December), and they did specifically refer to this iMac Pro:

> “great” new iMacs in the pipeline, slated for release “this year”, including configurations specifically targeted at large segments of the pro market.

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by rgbrenner »

strictnein wrote: post #27
rayiner wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's an 8-core Xeon, it's gotta be an E5. So the CPU alone could run $2,000 (pricing for E5 2667 v4, this probably uses an equivalent Skylake Xeon which isn't out yet).

Intel is slashing their multicore processor prices in response to AMD. https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i9-Annou... Sure, you'll be looking at non-ECC, but other than that, you'll be crushing the new iMac Pro in price to performance.

I didn't downvote you.. but is Intel really dropping prices? I put a i7 7700k in my pc several months ago (days after Intel released it... before AMDs announcement IIRC), and it's the same price today as it was then.

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by coldtea »

slg wrote: post #56
tomduncalf wrote: post #32

Gonna leave this here from the official press release as it seems quite a few people have missed this point: "In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest-end, high-throughput system in a modular design, as well as a new high-end pro display." https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/06/imac-pro-most-powerfu... Also…

That is just confusing. There will be a modular Mac Pro that is totally different from this iMac Pro? That leaves me to wonder who exactly this iMac Pro is targeted at.

People who want a very cpu-capable Mac but don't care for the display in the iMac Pro?

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by masklinn »

endorphone wrote: post #22
mtgx wrote: post #5

I 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. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWFzWRoVNnE

18 core Xeon chips have been available for 3+ years. There is nothing particularly odd about Apple's choice -- AMD has not been a serious competitor in the workstation market for years, and even with their newest entrant are only nipping at the very bottom of the market.

Also, no Thunderbolt from AMD.

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Post by zymhan »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #89
tomduncalf wrote: post #32

Gonna leave this here from the official press release as it seems quite a few people have missed this point: "In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest-end, high-throughput system in a modular design, as well as a new high-end pro display." https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/06/imac-pro-most-powerfu... Also…

It sounds like the target audience for the new Mac Pro will be people who can afford to spend $10k on a quad-CPU machine. I'm sure those people will be happy. But what I want is an upgradable / self-servicable machine that costs under $3k. I hope Apple isn't about to miss the plot again .

Keep dreaming bud.

If you want upgradeability and self-serviceability, build it yourself.

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by coldtea »

jordache wrote: post #93
spike021 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure there are still professionals who would prefer pre-packaged solutions. Sure, many prefer being able to continually upgrade and add to their setups as well. Just a different kind of sub-market, I think.

how is a mac pro not a pre-packaged solution? You choose from a few pre-configured setups if you wish.

In that the iMac displays are some of the best in the industry in a very competitive price (competitive displays cost nearly the same for the display alone).

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by coldtea »

wnevets wrote: post #76
tomduncalf wrote: post #32

Gonna leave this here from the official press release as it seems quite a few people have missed this point: "In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest-end, high-throughput system in a modular design, as well as a new high-end pro display." https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/06/imac-pro-most-powerfu... Also…

>Also, I want that black keyboard! is this satire?

Or, you know, a legitimate preference. People like cool looking stuff. Welcome to earth.

Re: Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

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Post by Joeri »

gigatexal wrote: post #36

Maybe I'm a sheep but I think it's great. Up to 128GB ECC, up to 18 cores, large NVMe SSDs with up to 3GB/s speeds (likely reads, but probably also writes), and it's in that beautiful grey / black. Really cool. The 8-core model at 5k seems reasonable to me since the monitor is likely 2k itself. You'll probably see a lot of them being bought for upper eschelon developers at hip startups. And the TCO of a mac vs. a bei…

Yeah, if I had that kind of money stuffed between my couch, I'd totally buy it. I don't care that it's a ridiculous machine and that single thread performance with that 18-core monster won't be anything to write home about. I still want it, because it is awesome.
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