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iMac Pro, The Most Powerful Mac Ever Latest News, Rumours, Release Date & Specs

iMac Pro, the most powerful Mac ever, arrives this December
iMac Pro is the most powerful Mac ever.

 WWDC this year brought a host of new announcements, and while HomePods and new iOS 11 updates are all well and good, we're a tad excited about the iMac developments.

Not only did Apple upgrade the existing lineup with new graphical capabilities and Intel's latest Kaby Lake processors, the company also gave us a sneak peek at the upcoming iMac Pro. It's not launching until later this year, but it looks like a real beast. The specs are off the charts, and several staff in the Trusted office simply cannot contain themselves.

But with the slew of new upgrades for the existing iMacs, is it worth actually waiting for the Pro version? How much more powerful is this mysterious beast? We've got all the answers for you right here.


Featuring up to 18-Core Processors, 22 Teraflops of GPU Performance, Fast Storage and Advanced I/O

San Jose, California —  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).



2017 iMac Pro  Display

The 27in iMac Pro will still offer 5,120x2,880 resolution 5K Retina display, like it's non-Pro cousin.

As for whether the iMac display will double up as a touchscreen, the answer is no.

Back at the April briefing, Phil Schiller was asked about whether Apple would consider adding a touch screen to the iMac. His response: "No". His colleague Craig Federighi suggested that the iPad Pro offers a far better drawing experience.


iMac Pro Design
The new iMac Pro, when it arrives, will have a new, darker, look shrouded in a Space Grey case.
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.
"Apple is thrilled to give developers and customers a sneak peek at iMac Pro. 

This will be the Apple's 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.”


iMac Pro Graphics
The iMac Pro will offer “advanced graphics editing”, according to Apple, mentioning such uses as virtual reality content creation and real-time 3D rendering.

The iMac Pro will ship with the soon-to-debut Radeon Pro Vega graphics card with offers up to 16GB on-package high-bandwidth memory. This is the most advanced graphics ever in a Mac and it will delivers up to an 11 Teraflops of single-precision compute power for real-time 3D rendering and immersive, high frame rate VR, says Apple.

In comparison, the top-of-the-range 27in iMac offers 8GB video memory with the Radeon Pro 580.

 During the keynote at WWDC, Apple went to lengths to demonstrate its eagerness to join the VR revolution.



iMac Pro  Processor


During the keynote Apple talked often of machine learning and other high performance uses, in a bid to emphasis the pro nature of this machine.

The new iMac Pro will ship with 8-, 10- or 18-core Xeon processors making it the “Most powerful Mac ever made.” Apple describes this as: “Workstation class performance”, noting the 22 Teraflops of GPU Performance, Fast Storage and Advanced I/O.

Xeon chips are better suited to applications involving complex data - such as large, multi-layered Photoshop files, 4K video or 3D scenes with huge textures - as they are generally more robust and reliable than Core chips. They can also use ECC [error-correcting code] RAM, which can prevent errors that could - for example - crash your computer during a long render.

Apple hasn't actually confirmed the exact processor that it'll be using in the iMac Pro.

Sources suggests that the iMac Pro will have Secure Enclave, which means it could have an ARM coprocessor for additional security like the MacBook Pro with TouchBar already has. This would allow the addition of Touch ID capabilities for the iMac Pro, but Apple hasn't shown off such feature yet so it could come in the form of a peripheral or perhaps Apple isn't done showing it off yet.

iMac Pro Storage, Ram and Ports

iMac Pro comes with 1TB of on board storage which can be expandable 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. 


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

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