Apple Announced iMac Pro – The Ultimate Workstation For Music And Video Production?

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Apple has presented at this year’s WWDC the new iMac Pro aimed at professionals. Many will now certainly say that you can get the same for much less on the Windows platform. Because I have to give people right, that is absolutely true. But there are many professionals in music or video that have been using Apple products for many years, since these have been reliable working machines for years.

Personally, I’m glad to see that Apple return to the professional market with such a power workstation. Even if the starting price of 5000$ is a lot, there will be a lot of demand for this machine. I can suggest that many professional music or video studios will buy this machine because many of this companies still use older Mac Pro’s with older technology. Honestly, the first moment where I saw this news, I said I need this but when they revealed the price of it, my reaction was: I can’t afford it.

It’s good to see that Apple is back with such a machine but unfortunately not my ultimate workstation for music, sorry that’s not my price region. Check below all the informations about this new machine. 

Featuring up to 18-Core Processors, 22 Teraflops of GPU Performance, Fast Storage and Advanced I/O
San Jose, California — Apple today gave a sneak peek of iMac Pro, an entirely new workstation-class product line designed for pro users with the most demanding workflows. The all-new iMac Pro, with its gorgeous 27-inch Retina 5K display, up to 18-core Xeon processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation, is the most powerful Mac ever made. Featuring a stunning new space gray enclosure, iMac Pro packs incredible performance for advanced graphics editing, virtual reality content creation and real-time 3D rendering. iMac Pro is scheduled to ship in December starting at $4,999 (US).

In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest-end, high-throughput system in a modular design, as well as a new high-end pro display.

“We’re thrilled to give developers and customers a sneak peek at iMac Pro. This will be our fastest and most powerful Mac ever, which brings workstation-class computing to iMac for the first time,” said John Ternus, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering. “We reengineered the whole system and designed an entirely new thermal architecture to pack extraordinary performance into the elegant, quiet iMac enclosure our customers love — iMac Pro is a huge step forward and there’s never been anything like it.”

Workstation-Class Performance in an iMac Design

Featuring next-generation Intel Xeon processors up to 18 cores, iMac Pro is designed to handle the most demanding pro workflows. With an all-flash architecture and all-new thermal design, iMac Pro delivers up to 80 percent more cooling capacity in the same thin and seamless iMac design. And with a new space gray enclosure and gorgeous 27-inch Retina 5K display with support for 1 billion colors, iMac Pro is as stunning as it is powerful.

The Most Advanced Graphics Ever in a Mac

iMac Pro comes with the new Radeon Pro Vega GPU, the most advanced graphics ever in a Mac. Featuring a new next-generation compute core and up to 16GB of on-package high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), iMac Pro with the Vega GPU delivers up to an amazing 11 Teraflops of single-precision compute power for real-time 3D rendering and immersive, high frame rate VR. And for half-precision computation, ideal for machine learning, iMac Pro delivers up to an incredible 22 Teraflops of performance.

Fast Storage and Advanced I/O

iMac Pro also supports up to 4TB of SSD and up to 128GB of ECC memory, and with four Thunderbolt 3 ports can connect to up to two high-performance RAID arrays and two 5K displays at the same time. For the first time ever on a Mac, iMac Pro features 10Gb Ethernet for up to 10 times faster networking.

iMac Pro is scheduled to ship in December starting at $4,999 (US).

More informations here: Apple iMac Pro

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