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

Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by strictnein on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:13PM (#14489863)

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.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by rgbrenner on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:39PM (#14490118)

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.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by strictnein on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:45PM (#14490185)

I guess it would have been more accurate to say that they're slashing prices on their upcoming multicore i9 line:

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i9-Annou...

$599 for an 8 core processor, for instance. Last model, the i7-6900K, would have been over $1k.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by rayiner on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:30PM (#14490033)

Who would use non-ECC memory in a box designed for content creation?

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by strictnein on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:38PM (#14490106)

A lot (almost all?) of the people who are currently running hackintoshes for content creation. Since that's what the original post was comparing this to.

Not a lot of Xeon Hackintoshes out there. Typically just i7s.

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