Apple iMac Pro Announced Starting At Just $4999

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WolfpackN64 said:

SuperNova said:

Or small professional studios.

My uncle owns a production company that does work for a few juggernaut custumers and while their main office only has six seats including my aunt who works as an accountant/secretary they get the real nice things in order to ensure that their employees turn over the best possible results and arent hampered by lenghthy rendering times etc. They do a lot of 4k editing, so the Imac pro being able to drive 2 5k screens in addition to it's own is something they dearly need. They've been stuck on old Mac pros for a while now since the 2013 macpro was basically a dead end.

Yeah, I'm guessing the Mac Pro line is pretty much dead. Apple gets more out of integrated systems anyway. Luckily, with eGPU support over thunderbolt, this machine could probably drive a lot more displays and tasks if necessary.

I hope not. Apple promised to bring an all new fully modular Mac Pro, probably sometime late next year. The Imac pro is meant to bridge that imo, but if it sees good sales it might as well mean the death of the mac pro.

Sort of like when apple gave consumers the choice between ultra thin low end glued toghether hardware and actual pro models in their laptop lineup around 2011/2012 and consumers overwhelmingly flocked towards the macbook air. We still see the results of that today, with a non-upgradable severly hampered macbook pro lineup. At least the creative proffessionals seem to have made themselves heard to an extent and we got egpu support and the iMac pro.

Although additional usb-c/thunderbolt3 should have been included on the 13'' macbooc pro without touchbar imo. They have to make up for all those missing ports.

I'm still on my late 2011 macbook and need a refresh soon, but even with kabylake I just can't justify the pricetag, right now. Maybe later this year/early next year with coffee lake. We could see quad core 13'' macbook pros and another pricedrop.