StrongARM-ing the AIO - new iMac Pro coming June

[williamcll]

More than half of apple's products have been migrated to ARM-based CPUs, from some unconfirmed documents the next computer on the line will be the iMac Pro, which will featured an upgraded screen.

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Rumors originally suggested that the new ‌iMac‌ could launch in the spring, but Young in late January said that he was expecting a "summer" launch. At the time, Young claimed that panel shipments were expected to begin in June and that a launch could follow in August or September, but he appears to have moved his timeline up. The 27-inch ‌iMac‌ will be sold alongside the 24-inch ‌iMac‌ as a higher-end version, and to bring it in line with the MacBook Pro, it could be called the ‌iMac‌ Pro. It will feature a mini-LED backlight, and Young today said that he expects it will have "around 1000 zones" and "over 4000 miniLEDs." Along with a mini-LED display, the ‌iMac‌ is expected to feature a redesigned look and the same M1 Pro and M1 Max chips introduced in the 2021 MacBook Pro models.

 

My thoughts

I can imagine Tim droning for half an hour how good looking their iMac is in a few months. Though without the mobility power restrictions I do wonder how much faster can the M1 ProMax

 

Sources

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/14/imac-pro-2022-june-launch/

[WhitetailAni]

Didn't Apple say they were discontinuing the iMac Pro line or was that just the iMacPro1,1?

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/imac-pro-discontinued

 

Also nice now we'll have the iMacPro2,1.

[Wyllio]

I was so confused reading the title. Thought it meant Apple was going to use an AIO liquid cooler, then i realized AIO computer.

[Chris Pratt]

It'll be interesting to see what they do. The M1 SoCs are impressive, but they still can't go toe-to-toe with something like a 12900K or whatever AMD has lined up with Zen 4, especially with 16c/32t beasts like the 5950X, in professional workloads. It's possible they might be able to pump a lot more power into it, given there won't be the battery saving restrictions current M1 devices carry. However, I'm not sure how much extra power they could actually pump into given the 5nm node and SoC nature. At a certain point, you just melt everything.

[GhostRoadieBL]

Disappointed and excited, was hoping to hear about an AIO cooled M1 max imac pro but this also looks pretty good for competing with most semi-pro and entry level pro editing stations.

 

Obviously going to be too expensive but for the screen and form factor it is going to sell like crazy.