The $10,000 iMac Pro - 2 Weeks Later! #Helpful Post

yo guys johnathan here and the a MacPro

is here like now

and I'm like ally I'm a little excited

so first things first we got that box

within a box clearly I've opened up one

too many Amazon boxes where you don't

need a knife you know exactly what I'm

talking about with this one I probably

should have used one so get into the

first box excitement level just went

from here to here seeing that space cry

my pro right smack on the front of the

box so I Mac Pro is stamped on the top

of the box and on one side we see that

beautiful flat K display but as we flip

things there's a side profile shot of

the iMac pro because of that space great

looks like this shadowy silhouette which

is kind of awesome and before we get to

the iMac Pro first we got to get to

those sweet sweet Space Gray accessories

first is the Apple wireless keyboard

with a number-pad and those black keys

pair with that space great finish looks

really good next is the Apple Magic

Mouse and as much as I love that space

great finished not sure exactly how much

I'll be using this at the very least

though it is reflective as all hell so

much so you can see light bouncing right

off of it next is that space great

trackpad which looks this I definitely

will use I'll probably pair it with

Logitech performance MX or something

like that last but not least with a

black lightning cable I'm not sure why

this excites me because I know you can

pick up a black lightning cable on

Amazon but it is still cool nonetheless

update I was looking for some black

Apple stickers thought there would be

maybe a hidden compartment here or

somewhere inside but sadly we are out of

luck so now finally it is time to get to

the iMac pro

I can see the space gray now if you've

ever run box timac from what I could

remember it's always been styrofoam so

this nope that's kind of different kind

of nice so we got one more box before we

get to that I'm a crow and nothing

exciting here we got that black power

cord last but not least we got the iMac

Pro they haven't got the Space Gray

wrapping around that oh my goodness it

looks so good

but I've wanted it along with many

people out there for a while now a space

for iMac and the fact that it is a space

for iMac and an iMac Pro it's kind of

awesome last one look at that Space Gray

holy crap feel like I'm sweating getting

that thing out of the box the plan is to

use it over the next couple days test it

edit with it tonight I just want to get

it out of the box so I can get an early

start tomorrow and set it up so that

next day is kind of turned into about a

week and a half but within that time we

got a chance to extensively test out the

iMac Pro to quickly recap and reflect on

my thoughts on this configuration which

is a 10 core AMD Vega 64 model 120

gigabytes of RAM and 2 terabytes of

flash storage I think the sweet spot in

terms of price performance will be taken

that base model and slowly upgrade in

the process of to 10 cores now the

reasons behind that is yeah those 14 and

18 core machines they're gonna be

monsters but they're much more expensive

and in terms of D 10 core that's

actually the fastest clocks but you're

gonna get in terms of single-threaded

performance now as far as that

performance actually the live stream

this week showcasing performance and

comparing the iMac pro versus a maxed

out 2017 iMac and finally a macbook pro

it was more so a real time kind of

benchmark archive so you can go back and

watch that if he wanted to so I will

drop a link down below in terms of

single core performance they were all

pretty close across the board which

hopefully wasn't too much of a surprise

the iMac and MacBook Pro those were

close with multi-core scores where the

big difference was though was with the

iMac Pro those 10 cores pumped out a

score of over

thirty six thousand now from there in

terms of disk speed I kind of assumed

all these would also perform very

similarly

it was mostly true except where the big

standout was on the iMac Pro the right

speeds were nearly three gigabytes a

second which is kind of crazy

so yeah benchmarks those are cool but to

kind of showcase some real-world

examples for me I shoot video I edit

video that is what I do for a living so

my main use for this iMac Pro is Final

Cut Pro 10 and editing video with that

said though I realize not everyone at

its video especially within Final Cut

Pro so I got a chance to sync up with my

buddy Matt workman who was an insanely

smart and talented dude he was awesome

enough to tweak a cinema 4d scene so I

could render it across the iMac Pro the

iMac and the MacBook Pro what's

interesting is he actually tested this

out on his system which is a 16 core AMD

thread Ripper configured total cost and

that machine is about 5,400 bucks so

that kind of puts some perspective on

the iMac Pro that it's not crazy because

with that configuration you got to

remember you're also not getting a 5k

display regardless though his system is

an absolute monster and to render out

that scene which is purely CPU based no

GPU it took about three minutes and 18

seconds on his machine the a Mac Pro was

just over 5 minutes the iMac non pro was

about 12 minutes and the MacBook Pro

finally finished up at 22 minutes so you

can kind of see the performance across

all these systems now for reference I do

shoot on an 8k red camera but prior to

the iMac Pro for the most part I would

shoot in 4k Pro res so what that does it

takes that beautiful a case sensor kind

of down samples it into a buttery smooth

4k Pro res which is amazingly fast to

edit you do lose those raw controls but

you get a super sharp image great color

and more importantly an insanely smooth

editing experience now yeah you

definitely could edit a K raw footage on

an iMac or even if you wanted to a

MacBook Pro but it's not the smooth

experience and rendering an export takes

absolutely forever but on the Mac Pro is

almost like you unlock this completely

new level that it in a K raw on the iMac

Pro kind of felt like I was editing 4k

Pro res on a MacBook Pro and if that

makes sense it's crazy for me what was

the most impressive thing about this was

taking that aka footage a shot at a 12

to 1 compression which is actually

pretty demanding on a computer and then

from there taking that footage put it

into a timeline plane everything back

and while that is happening tweak the

raw controls ISO white balance it is

kind of mind-blowing if you cut the

livestream essentially what I had going

on was a K footage dropped

to a 4k timeline I turned back on

rendering off to kind of make this a

little harder on the iMac Pro but it

took that ak-47 emaki Pro and the IMF

were still painfully chugging along I

turned back on rendering on exported

again and that was about a minute in 40

seconds which is faster than real time

so that kind of power has enabled me to

take full advantage of a que raw Reds

new IP p2 color science which has been

incredible

within Final Cut Pro 10 point for the

new color controls are amazing there's

built-in LUT so you can see here this is

pure red raw footage the next step from

there will be to apply a rec 709 LUT

that kind of gives us a great starting

point and then from there I can then

tweak things to really fine-tune and

dial everything out so you can see

before and after so that's kind of been

my impressions with the iMac Pro so far

I definitely want to do some more

extensive testing and kind of complete

these tests on the iMac Pro and the

MacBook Pro and kind of do maybe a

little more realistic test this is kind

of an extreme example to showcase the

pure power on the iMac Pro so as I

continue to test this definitely let me

know what you want to see in the full

blown-out crazy review aside from that

thank you guys very much for watching

hopefully enjoyed it if you did make

sure you smash that like button if you

missed the live stream which kind of

showcases these benchmarks in real time

I'll drop a link down below this is

Jonathan and I will catch you guys later