The starting iMac Pro is $5k. I'm going to make a comparison with a self buillt PC to see if the iMac pro is actually overpriced.
I'll be using the same or as close as possible to the same parts. You can argue all day about whether AMD offers better performance for less money but at the end of the day, to make an objective comparison we have to compare like with like. The market has evidently decided that Intel's Xeon processors are worth a lot.
Couple of notes: >RAM 32 GB of DDR4-2666 RAM here.
>Hard drive
We can't go cheap here. The iMac Pro is capable of read and write speeds of approximately 3 gigabytes per second. Most SSDs are capable of around 540 MB/s. The closest equivalent is the Samsung 960 Pro which has 3.5 gig read speed (~500 mb/s faster than iMac Pro) and 2.1 gig write speed (~500 mb/s slower than iMac Pro). 1 TB sets us back $620.
>Network card iMac Pro has 10 GB/s ethernet, so I added in a similar network card for the PC.
So a custom built PC would be $400. With the iMac you're getting for an extra $400 the benefits of using MacOS and the apple ecosystem and a computer that just looks good.
tl:dr the base iMac pro is fairly priced.
Carson Kelly
Sucks to be retarded/a shill. Every time an overpriced AIO from apple comes out we have filth like you purposefully misleading others into thinking it isn't grossly overpriced.
Cameron Allen
Can I use it for Catia, no, then it is overpriced.
Thomas Bell
Buying workstation hardware to run Adobe CC is a waste.
Anthony Gray
No ultra fast optane sdd, no nvidia card for cuda and software CAD, no múltiples GPU,no dual processor, need buy expensive ram to Apple.
Main trouble is put some configuration and believe everybody need same limitation and options.
Brandon James
Learn English.
Jace Morgan
Yeah but can it mine Bitcoin well tho?
Kayden Clark
For the bast model, no. But is also isn't a good computer because it has fuck all for cooling and it is going to need it to use that hardware.
For the top model, fucking overpriced and going to throttle like a whore.
Conclusion, don't bother buying one, no matter what the version.
Eli Baker
the ram you have doesn't ECC
Chase Russell
Overpriced or not, it is badly designed. You will lose most of the performance due overheating because apple picked the hottest components available, rather than the fastest, and stuck em on a laptop like form factor.
A Nvidia chip would had done wonders for it.
Anthony Long
>shit tier apple locked uefi bios >vega >osx lmao, what a piece of trash
Brayden Foster
Get 2 4k monitors for $300.
Andrew Robinson
Can you use iMacs as external monitors for PCs? Surprisingly hard to google for a right answer.
Wyatt Phillips
8 core threadripper costs $500
Dominic Green
>For the bast model, no. But is also isn't a good computer because it has fuck all for cooling
Source?
Aiden Clark
The thing has laptop heatpipes from the CPU and GPU to a single small heatsink block for the blowers to cool.
The heatpipes will be the bottleneck in the cooling. Especially on the higher spec models.
Aiden Richardson
Thanks for your post. I’m glad you’re putting in an effort. However I suggest you pick up a few dictionaries and research the meaning of the word “source”
Cameron Gomez
Sometimes a source can be a person with expertise, while not actually experience with the particular product or item.
Ethan Sanchez
You keep making these threads non stop, sometimes you have 2 or 3 of them up at the same time. Do you even get paid enough to post this on Sup Forums? You waste many hours of your life posting these threads and replying to everyone. I literally went to sleep, woke up checked on Sup Forums saw this shit then I'm going to work now and I bet when I'm back you will have another 2 or 3 threads. I don't even get why janis let these threads alive to begin with.
Jackson Young
It's fairly priced, but being an AIO for a workstation is such a niche market.
Anyway it's nice to see Apple making progress in the right direction. Hopefully the new MacPro won't be the dumpster fire that the current one is.
I work in VFX. All of our workstations are $5k Linux boxes and some Macs for Adobe CC. This is literally the target market for these. Just the AIO form factor isn't good for enterprise.
Nicholas Bailey
>4k >Accurate DCI-P3 colors >10bit >$300
Fuck off Sup Forumsirgin. Not even shilling for Apple here this post is just retarded.
Robert Carter
You forgot ecc ram/compatible mobo
James Evans
bit Well, not with an iMac.
Caleb Reyes
The 5k iMacs support 10bit. The LG panel in them is a 10-bit panel. Don't know about the 21.5" ones though, I doubt they are.
Asher Collins
if you wanted to actually be close to the mac specs, you'd need a c422/lga2066 motherboard and quad channel ecc ram
both of which cost significantly more than your parts list items
apple will fuck you on pricing of the build-to-order options though - cpu, ram and ssd upgrades cost a fortune
Juan Campbell
early displayport ones could do it
but since the thunderbolt era, the answer is no
Elijah Rogers
>The iMac is overpriced! >See, if you replace the Xeon with AMD, use the cheapest motherboard possible, use the cheapest RAM possible, the cheapest SSD possible, and dont include bluetooth/wireless or a monitor, you save 2k!
Julian Bailey
>The LG panel in them is a 10-bit panel. Is it actually or is it like 90% of 10-bit panels that are 8-bit with 10-bit input and dithering?
