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apple prides itself on its courage the

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courage to do what no one else does the courage of our convictions to solder

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everything down courage to remove features pushing your willingness to pay more

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for less but sometimes sometimes they

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falter sometimes innovation rears its ugly head

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and today we have the imac pro

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the upgradable imac the workstation imac

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the mac for legitimate creative

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professionals

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who saw that one coming

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so the base eight core configuration of the imac pro is 4999

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us dollars let's take you for a tour then and break

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down what you get for that money and how that would compare to buying components

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off the shelf the most obvious feature of any aio is the lcd spec wise there's

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really not much out there like it with lg's ultrafine 5k being the closest

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analog with p3 wide gamut color support

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500 nit maximum brightness Thunderbolt 3 input and a 1700 price tag

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moving under the hood the next most expensive component is an 8 core Intel

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xeon w2140b a slightly down clocked version of the

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xeon w2140 that can be swapped out for up to a xeon

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w219518 core for very heavy workloads

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now with a xeon comes ecc or error correcting memory and even our base

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model has a healthy 32 gigs of it

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interestingly unlike previous 5k imacs

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the pro is using full-sized dimms rather

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than so dims theoretically great news for upgraders

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but alas apple giveth and apple taketh

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away to take full advantage of the xeon's quad channel memory controller all four

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of the imac pro slots are populated and

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there is no access hatch on the back a little bit more on that later

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one of the most underwhelming aspects of the base imac pro is probably the GPU a

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vega 56 i mean it's not terrible but considering that previous mac pros used

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fire pros rather than consumer cards

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and the price point you might reasonably expect better and the same could be said

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for the upgrade options your GPU is soldered directly to the motherboard so

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the only way to max it out with the marginally faster vega 64 is to pay

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upfront AMD's full msrp for a standalone

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card on top of what you already paid theoretically for a vega 56.

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thanks cryptocurrency miners so bottom line with a comparable

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motherboard equivalent 10 gigabit networking a terabyte of very fast pci

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express storage a power supply a case cooling and some decent peripherals the

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apple tax on this particular model even ignoring that computers do not assemble

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themselves and that ongoing software support and warranty coverage both have

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a value is a whopping negative two hundred

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dollars so why is it that apple has this

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reputation for having overpriced computers

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we're going to get to that first let's talk about the experience of using the

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imac pro it is essentially identical to that of a

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regular imac the display is gorgeously retina and very bright

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but with fat bezels and no HDR support for reasons that likely have everything

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to do with supply chain and nothing to do with courage it declutters your life

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with only a single cable needed for power as long as you don't need to plug

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anything into one of the conveniently located usb 3 or Thunderbolt 3 ports at

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the back and the included wireless peripherals

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are more than usable ranging from pretty darn good for a low profile chiclet

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style at least it has a numpad too the built-in touchpad is really cool for

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gestures but how have they not fixed this charging port yet really similar

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except for one big difference the imac

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pro uses workstation class and modern

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hardware something you can't take for granted so you'd probably think then that tools

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like logic pro and final cut pro that have been tuned for years for outdated

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mainstream or mobile cpus would run like

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billio on this thing and you'd be right this is the fastest

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mac ever built in every respect you kind of have to feel it to believe how quick

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and responsive it is across the board safari launches instantly even at 5k

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desktop animations never drop a frame and even adobe premiere as much of a dog

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as it can be launches every bit as quickly as the fastest test benches

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we've ever built oh and also 10 gigabit

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Ethernet means that the imac pro is a real mac that is finally able to

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work with large files and networked resources right out of the box something

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that is essential to our production workflow where we keep all of our

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footage on a redundant protected high-speed storage device on the network

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as for how well it performs elsewhere well it should come as no surprise that

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it tears through most of our professional tests with relative ease

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cinebench scores landed about where they should luxmark spat out some very

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respectable numbers and blender ran very

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well

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except when it didn't we're kind of hoping that the performance issues with

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blender's cycles renderer are just growing pains that will be dealt with in

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short order with all those rosy results in mind

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though it should be noted that the xeon w didn't quite match the performance of

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our similar cnw or our similarly priced desktop grade

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core i9 and that even our base model CPU throttled

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under sustained loads with the imac pro's cooling system staying inaudibly

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quiet rather than holding the CPU temperatures

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at a more comfortable 70 to 80 degrees

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we'd like to see apple ramp up the fan more aggressively

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though with that said given the placement of the exhaust with air

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basically being blown back into the intake anyway it's kind of hard to tell

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how much it would help and what we also don't know at this time

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is how a higher spec CPU would affect any of this let's get back to that

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discussion about upgradability now apple may officially void your

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warranty and getting inside the imac pro

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is a real chore but it appears as though the CPU RAM and

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proprietary ssds there are two of them running in raid 0 could all be swapped

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out for compatible replacements so this is something that we plan to explore in

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a follow-up video bottom line then it feels like apple is finally listening to

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its professional users there are a few things missing maybe

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kind of like the soviets after the 1969 moon landing they've decided to just

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let microsoft have it as the only one with a sexy aio with a digitizer by

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leaving out support for the apple pencil but they gave us 10 gig Ethernet and

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truly professional grade performance and they did it in a form factor with a

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level of polish that nobody does quite like apple

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so thermals aside i guess it's pretty

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magical and our major gripes with it are really just the usual stuff about the

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restrictiveness of the apple ecosystem in general

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one without any obvious reason the imac

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pro doesn't support target display mode which would allow you to get more

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mileage out of it as a monitor once the internals become outdated

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2. other than Thunderbolt 3 there is no way

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to add an expansion card in spite of the CPU's massive 48 PCIe lanes and 3 while

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on paper the specs and pricing actually

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look really attractive compared to an apples to apples diy solution a big part

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of the reason for that is apple's manner of choosing expensive options that not

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everyone would necessarily spring for if given the choice

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better performance per dollar can be achieved with some compromises in a diy

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box now it's possible that when the true

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standalone workstations arrive perhaps later in 2018

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that we'll see some more flexibility here NVIDIA gpus anyone they've got

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drivers but i wouldn't hold my breath

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