oh how much did we spend on this
being a hundred percent honest with you guys i actually don't know james how
much did we spend on this thing six grand
is that the base bottle not quite but almost
ah it's too bad praying to the apple gods
doesn't make their products any cheaper
okay so apple is finally
demonstrating in a way with like a real actual product that you can really
actually buy that they give a
about the enthusiast prosumer slash
professional all those categories because
for a while there you could make a pretty strong argument
for them just giving exactly zero f's about any of
those groups of end users
this is the imac pro and i have been
known to give apple crap about throwing
pro on anything that they're trying to sell to home users who want to feel all warm
and fuzzy and professional but this thing does look pretty pro
spec wise our model rocks a 27 inch display 5k
xeon w the w is for workstation pro
workstation okay we're on the same page so far 32 gigs of ecc memory one
terabyte SSD a vega 56 graphics card okay that's not especially professional
facetime camera four Thunderbolt 3 ports and
something that i've been asking for proper support from apple for for quite
some time something i actually didn't realize that this was gonna have until i
saw it on the box oh i'm sorry brandon wow this is a lot
of packaging
gotta give apple credit they uh they want stuff to get to you in one
piece did i did i say what the thing was that
i had 10 gigabit networking because
for years apple has been on the
no we don't need 10 gigabit lan because we
have Thunderbolt train but the reality is that
Thunderbolt is a point to point connection
which is great for end user or prosumer
but as soon as you need to share resources
Ethernet is the way to go like if our
workplace was set up around the mac it would be nearly impossible for one
person to pick up where someone else left off on a project if somebody phoned
in sick for example what the hell
look at all the packaging for this power cord
first of all make sure you open this your power cord's in there it's got a little pull tab
then this entire look at the box they designed to hold this power cord
i mean i'm all for a great unboxing experience
and everything but this was three pieces
i mean three easily recyclable
brown cardboard pieces mind you but like
four pieces four pieces
world's most amazing power cord
oh wait no it's just a normal power cord that sits flush with the back your
computer well we won't be needing these
gaming peripherals although vega 56 graphics card i mean
you could game on this thing do some cryptocurrency mining
well this is professional look at that a number pad
so there are some improvements even to the peripherals that from my personal
experience are legendarily non-ergonomic
the keyboard's okay but i'm still not a fan of this mouse design
got your gesture nonsense on the top you got your left you got your right click
yeah okay i always get this feeling when i'm
opening up apple products that
like because i don't worship them as a company i'm like somehow undeserving
of an experience right now that someone else somewhere on earth
would just be so excited for
i just they're doing a lot right here
but i'm still not necessarily sold on six thousand dollars for this
particular spec regardless of whether it's canadian rupees or us dollars
wow it's really light and they actually managed to i mean at
least to the naked eye i don't have the old
previous imac for comparison because i sold it
but to the eye doesn't look that big by comparison so
they have crammed a lot of performance
in here i will say this though they have clearly left larger
vents for cooling back there look at that and
what's also interesting back here is that gone
is the convenient hatch where you can access your memory modules to upgrade
them i o wise we've got your audio connectors
still on the back i guess we were not getting away from that sd card reader
nice to see four usb 3s of some flavor
or another four Thunderbolt that is gorgeous and 10 gigabit lan that's
really exciting to me personally because once apple does it other people start
taking it seriously and 10 gig networking is something that really
really needs to happen uh down here is where we've got all of
our intake vents all along the bottom and so this guy must be the exhaust
right over here got your cable management hole here i really like the
aesthetic of this thing that dark kind of like i guess this is kind of a space
gray or something i don't know what they what apple would call it but this dark
aesthetic is really really nice it screams professional and not in that way
that's like i'm a professional you know like glossy plastic or something like
that no like it actually looks pro so the rumor is that apple has a
replacement to the mac pro coming like a proper replacement like a desktop
computer with a separate monitor and a cable
between them you know like an actual workstation coming
but for the time being this is the highest end product
in their lineup and as much as that like kind of sucks
because i'm really not a huge fan of the fact that this gorgeous monitor that i
paid for and this powerful computer that
i also paid for are just married together forever this
was something i complained about with the previous 5k imac the fact that you
can't just use it as a monitor with like a future apple desktop
but with that said it's not a terrible looking machine
spent a lot of time this holidays on my knees
like not like like playing card games with my kids and stuff
shout out and once again
i am going through the usual freaking thing that i go through with a mac
where i don't know how to do anything smb colon slash slash no we don't use
backslashes on the mac we use forward slashes all right so let's find the test folder
i want to test out that 10 gigabit networking
fortunately i have a 10 gigabit switch
right here ready to freaking rock because i am ready
for the 10 gigabit revolution here as usual the screen is gorgeous can never
fault apple for the display
you can fault them for not remembering what bloody button to press to make the
oh oh look at it go yeah it's more brightness
than any than any man needs hey what is this 12 gigs 12 gig file here we go here
we go you guys ready for the 12 gig file to the raid 0
SSD boot drive look at that go
oh it's beautiful
it's not actually that fast it's pretty fast yeah i know that's pretty fast so
we're doing like 300 megabytes a second for apple people that's really fast
oh quick time i can't double click to make it full screen
wow i guess i better go find a hotkey
i don't know what it is oh am i really going to make myself use
this thing again for all my software frustrations though
i mean if you're gonna run Windows on it this is the sexiest
Windows all-in-one that's for sure so let me know guys this is just an
unboxing but we're gonna have a review coming at least
i want to take a look at the upgrade experience as well it's got a vega 56 in
it so i'd love to look at the gaming experience too but let us know in the
comments on this video what you guys want to hear from us
about the mac maybe another really interesting piece would be
building out a top of the line imac pro
so we've actually got some spare chips that we could upgrade it with we could
get this pretty close to full spec and then how it would compare price-wise
to a top-of-the-line pc workstation something like this this thing can take
up to two zeon processors so
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