iMac Pro Described as Blazingly Fast, Quiet, and Fairly Priced, But Lacks Upgradeability

September 25, 2014

marques brownlee , jonathan morrison have shared hands-on videos of imac pro, apple said available order on december 14.

image: jonathan morrison

brownlee spent past week imac pro, using create hands-on video final cut pro x, , found super capable yet quiet machine beautiful display , stealthy space gray enclosure.

said imac pro's biggest weakness lack of upgradeability, said expensive $4,999 starting price fair hardware included, , priced out pc equivalent tech specs @ $5,100.

brownlee benchmarked 10-core imac pro on geekbench , recorded multi-core score of 37,417, 45 percent faster top-end 2013 mac pro's average multi-core score of 25,747.

of note, benchmarks suggest maxed-out, 18-core imac pro fastest mac ever unfathomable margin.

refresher, imac pro can configured 18-core intel xeon processor, 4tb of ssd storage, 128gb of ecc ram, , amd radeon pro vega 64 graphics processor 16gb of hbm2 memory.

4 thunderbolt 3 ports, imac pro can drive 2 5k displays or 4 4k displays @ 60hz simultaneously. has 10 gigabit ethernet port, 4 usb-a 3.0 ports, sd card slot, , 3.5mm headphone jack.

brownlee revealed imac pro comes black lightning usb-a cable in box, compared standard white version other devices. we've asked apple if black cable available purchase separately.

black cable complements space gray magic keyboard numeric keypad , magic mouse 2 included in box. space gray magic trackpad 2 optional.

image: marques brownlee

showcased twelve south's new hirise pro height adjustable stand sits below imac or imac pro. stand doubles space hide likes of external hard drives, cables, airpods, or wallet or keys.

hirise pro available order today $149.99 on twelve south's website in color-matched space gray finish.

morrison had 10-core imac pro, , recorded similar multi-core score of 37,434 on geekbench. video provides nice outdoor shots of machine, more of first rather in-depth review.

imac pro available order on december 14, starting @ $4,999, in united states, canada, uk, , several other countries. apple has yet provide exact pricing details on configuration-by-configuration basis.

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