Re:Apple iMac Pro goes on sale December 14th
by wlesieutre on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:07PM
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Admittedly I'm not the target market, since I use some Windows-only software and my work computer's years-old GPU and is fast enough for the CAD work I do.
I do make incremental upgrades on my personal desktop though (mostly gaming). The last rebuild was triggered by some failed parts, so I ended up doing a new motherboard and processor and switching to DDR4, but I still have the GPU, screen, SSDs, and some other miscellaneous components. If I'd had an out of warranty failure on an iMac Pro motherboard I wouldn't have been able to salvage those. Or perhaps knowing that giving up the computer means losing the screen along with everything else, I'd have just shelled out a couple of thousand dollars on repairs.
I was a pretty early adopter of 4K screens and I'm still using the same one more than three years later.
That's a fair point. With this machine you are committed to a certain performance over a long period before you commit yourself to the next machine. With a modular design, you can change the asset in smaller increments, at the cost of having an upgrade process to manage.