The cheese grater style Mac Pros were the best for developers. Still hasn't changed. They were reasonably priced, good looking boxes that you can open and upgrade. We don't care about compactness unless it's a laptop. Key feature is that we can open the box and there's room to add and change stuff inside. Otherwise it's not really 'Pro'. This is even more relevant when you have horsepower hungry stuff like VR.<p>It's only a matter of time before Win 10 Unix features mature, and it makes me migrate back to Windows.
"Love letter to developers"?! If Apple wants to send me a love letter, they can tell their design team to put 32gb of RAM into a MacBook Pro that has an upgradeable drive, expandable memory and a reasonable configuration of ports.
My mid-2010 Mac Pro tower is still my favorite machine, probably favorite I've ever owned. The form and function are basically perfect. It's built like a workman's tool and that's what it is.<p>Update that with current year components and shut up and take my money.
I don't think so<p>This machine is for designers and creative people.<p>A beefy Mac mini or powerful MacBook is what I need without a ridiculously high price tag.<p>Price wouldn't be such an issue if the thing was at all upgradable.
> Apple’s iMac Pro is a love letter to developers<p>What BS. Isn't it literally an <i>apology letter</i>?<p>Apple: "Sorry we neglected and ignored you, but to make it up we didn't really listen to you, but got you a nice dinner of our favorite stuff (thinspo industrial design). Please don't leave us."
If this was so, they'd provide a config option with a cheap GPU and less storage (or alternatively provide a Xeon option for the ordinary iMac). Many/most developers don't need a $600 GPU or 1TB of super-fast storage, but do want the extra core count.<p>IIRC they used to do this with the tower Mac Pros; the base option had a cheapish graphics card. Base model price went up dramatically with the trashcan, which made high-end GPUs mandatory.
* wealthy developers.<p>At home I have a 32GB 1800x system with a 2GB/s NVME drive and a 1080ti. I chose Nvidia after years of AMD use due to performance. Of course I use it for gaming as well. At work I have a Dell XPS 15 and we've been buying those or P-series Lenovo's for the devs there.<p>The new iMac is $6300CAD. There's no way I'm buying it for myself or my devs.<p>The iOS devs at work get Macbook Pros and prefer the portable nature of them. The UX team get those as well - for the same reason. Plus we'd never fork out that much money for a single machine.<p>Maybe people who work with 4k video or VFX and need OSX would go for these.
The device seems impressive, but the price is even more so.<p>I'd probably chose one only if I can get someone else (e.g. an employer) to pay for it; otherwise the same money can buy a combination of a much cheaper computer + a nice overseas vacation trip, and that'd be better.
It might pay to revisit these negative comments in a few months time.<p>The iMac Pro is beautiful, and ridiculously powerful. I am back to the days of wanting to be able to justify the absurd price (that's what power costs) simply to have that icon on my desk.<p>I would not be surprised to see a lot of these turn up on senior executive desks, or as a status symbol from companies to their developers - showing that nothing but the best will do.<p>Retina iMacs are amazing - I'm currently using a maxed out iMac from 2 years ago, with a 4K screen plugged in too. It was impossible to justify the cost at the time, but now I cannot imagine anything less.
I used to do a lot of 300dpi print design work and paid apple and adobe a lot of money for hardware and DVD's of software in the early part of this century.<p>I currently use an old mac with the last disc based iteration of Adobe Creative Suite - something I suspect a lot of designers are still using - on the rare occasions I need to sit down and create.<p>I'm wondering about the Apple pro lines and who might use a non upgradable, closed piece of expensive hardware going forward. It feels to me as though that market is shrinking unless they get serious about 'pro' meaning industrial strength and configurable
I'm just excited to see the full-width bluetooth keyboard with numpad. Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can order it on its own in spacegray color (call me vain but it looks fantastic!)
If you mainly work in one place, the current Mac Pro is great for developers. I still travel with it but it is to another house where I have a monitor and keyboard setup.
Here my answer: I'm cheating on you and still have no regrets.<p>ps: my last year hackintosh build with 64GB RAM for < 5K is not impressed by those 128GB RAM
I love Macs and I love desktop computers (I'm old). I have a maxed-out 2013-era iMac. I'll piss away money on the stupidest things, but this is just insane. I can't possibly wrap my head around spending that much money for an all-in-one computer in 2017. It's like Apple wants to pretend it's still 2012.