14 DAY TRIAL // Apple unveiled today that it would be releasing the long-anticipated iMac Pro computer this week on December 14, when it will be available for purchase from the company's website.
Dubbed as the most powerful Mac ever created, iMac Pro is a state-of-the-art iMac computer designed for professionals who the best workstation powered by Apple's unbeatable macOS operating system. Best of all, iMac Pro keeps the iconic all-in-one design of the iMac series of computer.
"Pros love iMac. So when they asked us to build them a killer iMac, we went all in. And then we went way, way beyond, creating an iMac packed with the most staggeringly powerful collection of workstation-class graphics, processors, storage, memory, and I/O of any Mac ever," said Apple.
A lean, mean dream machine
Featuring up to 18-core Xeon processors, iMac Pro comes with Turbo Boost capabilities of up to 4.5GHz and up to 42MB cache. As Apple likes to say, it's a lean, mean dream machine that lets video editors manipulate 4K video with ease, musicians to create real-time audio effects, and software developers compile their next five-star app.
In terms of graphics power, the iMac Pro computer series come with Radeon Pro Vega GPUs with 11 teraflops single precision and 22 teraflops half precision, as well as 8GB or 16GB high bandwidth memory and 400GB/s memory bandwidth. It supports up to 128GB of 2666MHz DDR4 ECC RAM for creating next-generation Virtual Reality content.
iMac Pro supports up to 4TB all-flash storage that will load any file, no matter how big it is, in a few seconds, thanks to up to 3GB/s throughput. On top of that, it features four Thunderbolt 3 (USB‑C) ports, a 10Gb Ethernet port, an all-new speaker system, and a gorgeous 5K Retina display with 500 nits of brightness across 14.7 million pixels.
Apple will make the new iMac Pro computer available for purchase from its online store starting Thursday, December 14, 2017, and those who will be lucky enough to buy one can also get the new space gray wireless Magic Keyboard with numeric keypad and either the Magic Trackpad 2 or Magic Mouse 2, also in space gray, just like your new iMac Pro.
Update: iMac Pro is now available for purchase from Apple's website and it would appear that the first orders will arrive December 27. iMac Pro's price starts from $4,999.00 USD and can go up to $13,427.00 USD. You can also purchase the brand new Final Cut Pro X or Logic Pro X software and have them pre-installed for an extra $299.99 USD or $199.99 USD respectively.
