We are hungover from the Keynote from WWDC 2017, a presentation that has left many of us wanting more, and it is that from my point of view Apple no longer does Keynotes as it did before ... We are low on news, we want more, and although we have even had a hardware renewal in the Keynote software par excellence, we would have liked to have had much more visible news. Yes, as I tell you we have had hardware news: new iPad Pro, new Home Pod, new Macs, and the new iMac Pro…
A new Mac focused on the professional market, which has been talked about for a long time. And we cannot forget the professional nature of the Apple brand, famous for being used in a multitude of professional applications: above all, audio and video professionals. And for these, the guys at Apple had an ace up their sleeve, the new iMac Pro, the new professional computer from the guys on the block. Will this new iMac Pro be what many expected? After the jump we give you all the details of this new iMac Pro: Professional to the nth degree.
First of all tell you that we are facing an iMac with the same appearance as that of its little brother, the 5-inch iMac 27K, yes, this time, following the Pro range, aluminum has a Space Gray color to differentiate it from the range no pro. In addition, this time we will have a keyboard (new Magic Keyboard with numeric keypad) and mouse color Space Grey following the color of the iMac Pro itself. By the way, no Touch Bar in the new Magic Keyboard of the iMac Pro, something that although they have not included, I do not think they will be slow to add in future renovations.
But what really sets this new iMac Pro apart from other iMacs not pros, it is obviously the power it has. Up to 18-core Intel Xeon processors, one of the most advanced processors on the market that is only a few months old. Processors that combined with the new AMD Radeon Pro Vega that reaches up to 16 GB of HBM2 memory, something that would reach 11 TFLOPS of single precision calculations, or 22 TFLOPS of semi-precision. Probably none of this sounds familiar to you, but we are talking about the most advanced technology, and obviously this is aimed at a very professional audience, so you can get an idea in Keynote iMac Pro demo was made by the guys from Industrial Light & Magic, responsible for Star Wars visual effects.
Let's add it 128GB ECC memory, to 4 TB SSD storageAnd with four Thunderbolt 3 ports as external interfaces to continue adding power: imagine with 3 extra 5K screens, more external graphics power ... If the 3 Thunderbolt ports and the storage of the iMac Pro fall short, you will also have connectivity 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Two powerful fans along with a studied ventilation design in the chassis will make nothing choke on this new iMac Pro.
Obviously everything has a price, and yes, we can always say that you can find much cheaper things for half the price, it seems to me a quite expensive iMac Pro but obviously you have to understand that this is not for everyone, the results will tell us how far they are capable of going ... It will begin to be sold in December for a price that goes from $ 4999 onwards (You can now play to customize the iMac Pro with everything to see the final price), so now we only have wait until the end of the year to see the first tests so that we get long teeth.