I touched the Apple iMac Pro...#Helpful Post

So this week was nuts for Apple

They announced so much stuff at WWDC

New iMacs, new iPad Pros, new MacBooks, new MacBook Pros

You can actually expect a video on this brand new 13-inch MacBook in a day or so

So stay tuned for that

But first

I want to talk about what was most interesting to me

Kind of the surprise announcement of the show

That Space Gray, iMac Pro

Now, even though Apple had the iMac Pro out in the floor this week

They had it locked down..

They didn't want no one touching this

or getting fingerprints on it

But that Space Gray was so attractive that naturally I had to sneak in there when no one was looking

Unfortunately that was about as far as I could get without getting kicked out of the show

But, I did get a chance to spend pretty a solid amount of time with it

Talked to Apple,

with that,

I thought I could answer some questions you might have

If there's anything that's not covered

Go and drop me a line (he meant comment) down below

First and foremost, I'm sure the biggest question floating around right now IS

"Is the iMac Pro the replacement of Mac Pro?"

The short answer is "No"

I talked to Apple and they stressed and reiterated

There is a brand new completely redesign modular Mac Pro coming in 2018

But for now, this is kind of like an option between the iMac and the Mac Pro

and for those who need more power now or technically later this year

Now aside from the surprising amount of power packed inside this iMac Pro

if you missed it

It comes in Space Gray, which looks amazing...

I don't care if you're a part of the PC Master Race

or you're a Mac user

There is no denying, this is a beautiful machine

On top of the Space Gray finish for the iMac, you also get a matching peripheral sets

You get a Space Gray Trackpad, a Wireless Keyboard with Number Pad.

Even though I'll personally never use it, you also get a space grey magic mouse

Looks aside though, ultimately it comes down to the power and what is packed inside these iMac Pros

Like I talked in my latest video,

I didn't think I would ever see the day where I use 18-Core and iMacs in the same sentence

But it is happening

Out of the box, these comes configured with 8 Core Xeon Processors

but could be bumped up to a 10 Core processor or an insane 18 Core

Which if you think about it, is insane on an iMac

Now on-top of the sheer CPU power they're not messing around with graphics either

Inside, you have an AMD Vega Graphics either an 8GB or 16GB flavors

I think what's cool with this is that those Vega Graphics aren't even out yet

So it is brand new technology

The current and now super dated Mac Pro, when that came out, it was kinda using almost recycled GPUs

but with this, it is cutting edge and completely new

Now admittedly what gets me excited and pulls on those nerd heart strings of mine

are flash storage and SSD Performance

and not only the recent Macs, whether it's MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iMacs, Apple has been killing it with SSD performance

With these iMac Pro you can configure them out to a crazy 4TB of flash storage

Which is beautiful

What has me super curious though

If you look at this note here, that says "Dual SSD options"

So I'm curious, do you have the option for a second drive

Or, if you opt for that crazy 4TB SSD

Does that mean you're gonna get two 2TB SSD in a Raid

Which would be insanely fast

As far as memory goes, these are the first iMacs that could be configured up to a 128GB of RAM

So there is no shorts of power no matter where you look

So unfortunately, with that memory.. It is non-user upgradable

I have confirmed this,

I think ultimately what it comes down to is the cooling that Apple had engineered inside this iMac

Just to make this possible

They said something along the line that it is 80% more efficient as far as cooling goes in these standard iMacs

Which is kinda crazy if you think about it

It definitely kinda suck not being able to upgrade your own RAM

Especially on what is being called a "Pro" machine

but I guess it kinda paved away for the Mac Pros

It's gonna be user upgradable modular machine

and the iMac Pro kinda is what it is

Now as far as connectivity goes, I was little surprised with these iMac Pros

Especially with what Apple did with the iPhone 7 (he meant headphone jack)

and the new MacBook Pros, those only had USB-C ports

so I kinda assume naturally that route not only for the new iMac Pro, but the new iMac as well

and that did not happen at all

With these iMac Pros you get a headphone jack, SD Card slot, 4 USB 3.0 ports, 4 Thunderbolt 3 Ports

in USB-C form factor

and last but not least, a 10 Gigabit Ethernet port which is awesome

Ultimately what it comes down to is that you gotta put things into perspective

This is using Xeon Processors, graphics that aren't even out yet especially on the PC side of things

Workstation memory, insanely fast flash storage

I think the biggest thing that most people forget about is that all this comes with a beautiful 5k Display

Now again, this is not intended to be a PC versus Mac war

If you're all about that PC Master Race life, awesome

You can incredibly powerful machines,

For myself, I use Final Cut Pro to edit. It is what I use everyday, that's where iMac Pro makes sense

Ultimately at the end of the day, you're gonna stack these side by side

to compare the iMac Pro against a comparable PC Workstation, NOT Gaming PC but PC Workstation.

I think you'd be surprised as far as price goes

Personally, I am excited. If you are as well.. let me know by dropping a like down below

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This is Jonathan and I'll catch you guys later!