iMac Pro to Go…
The Apple (AAPL) store has indicated that the iMac Pro is now available ‘…while supplies last, “implying that it will no longer be produced. The less than 4 year old top-of-the-line all-in-one Mac line, is a 27” high-resolution version of the tower or rack Mac Pro, which does not come with a monitor. The iMac Pro can be configured with up to 18 cores and 256 GB of DDR4 memory, along with a maximum of 4TB of SSD storage and can support up to four 4K monitors. The Mac Pro can be configured up to 28 cores, 1.5Tb of DDR4 memory with a maximum of 8 Tb of SSD storage, and can support eight 4K displays. The Mac Pro base price is $5,999 while the iMac Pro base price is $4,999 and comes with an HD camera.
Video professionals, the target market for both devices, tended to look for power, and while the iMac Pro was certainly a powerful machine, the Mac Pro was the one that was continually upgraded by the company along with the more basic iMacs, which left the iMac Pro as what turned out to be an interim product. There has been speculation that Apple is just clearing a path toward a new iMac based on Apple’s own silicon design, although most had expected such later rather than sooner, with speculation that Apple is closer to releasing its own Mac silicon sooner than expected. That said, there are still iMac models available (just not the ‘Pro’) and most professionals would be likely to wait to see how well a new processor might work before jumping into a new iMac Pro, so there is actually little pressure on Apple to fill the iMac Pro gap quickly. No official Apple event has been scheduled for this month but there has been speculation that Apple could hold an on-line event with updates for the iPad Pro.
Video professionals, the target market for both devices, tended to look for power, and while the iMac Pro was certainly a powerful machine, the Mac Pro was the one that was continually upgraded by the company along with the more basic iMacs, which left the iMac Pro as what turned out to be an interim product. There has been speculation that Apple is just clearing a path toward a new iMac based on Apple’s own silicon design, although most had expected such later rather than sooner, with speculation that Apple is closer to releasing its own Mac silicon sooner than expected. That said, there are still iMac models available (just not the ‘Pro’) and most professionals would be likely to wait to see how well a new processor might work before jumping into a new iMac Pro, so there is actually little pressure on Apple to fill the iMac Pro gap quickly. No official Apple event has been scheduled for this month but there has been speculation that Apple could hold an on-line event with updates for the iPad Pro.
- iMac Pro & Mac Pro - Source MacWorld UK
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