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

Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by gigatexal on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:15PM (#14489890)

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 beige box PC is said to be much lower by way of lower incidents of issues, failures, etc.

Edit: the one processor e5 16xx chip is less than a grand. That changes the value proposition of the iMac pro but if I had the cash I'd still get one.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by Joeri on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:41PM (#14490142)

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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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by gigatexal on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:52PM (#14490268)

I agree. I think the sweet spot for my workload (not encoding much video just compiling stuff) the 8-core model with higher clocks makes more sense for me.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by seanp2k2 on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:13PM (#14492119)

"Finally, you can `npm install` in mere minutes!"

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by MitjaBezensek on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:16PM (#14491368)

The cheapest 5k iMac is $1799, so just the screen is probably closer to $1000.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by gigatexal on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:22PM (#14491484)

so say for the imac pro which comes with 32GB ddr4 standard and a 1TB nvme ssd, an 8 core chip, and the higher end panel: 1k for the panel, 750 for the cpu, 200 for the ram, 650 for the ssd (samsung 960 pro?) comes to: 2600 before labor and other overhead. Solid margins there for sure, but I maintain still not a ripoff. As I have earned more in my career (I'm still not wealthy by any means, but I like nice things -- those things are probably related...but beside the point) I have tended to opt for nicer more upscale things and Apple usually fits the bill. Again the iMac for me is the non-pro line, but I want a pro iMac.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by valarauca1 on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:20PM (#14492207)

8 core Xeons are ~$450 bucks.

E5-2620v4 owner. 8c/16HT it isn't a $700 processor.

A $700 Xeon is the 10c/20HT

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by fliptables on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:19PM (#14492764)

Broadwell ones are. Apple are probably using the newer Skylake-based Xeon Gold line with higher price and much higher clock speeds.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by pestrov on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:43PM (#14491772)

You forgot the Vega GPU.

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