The iMac Pro is $$$... - Classic Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,787 words · ~8 min read
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oh how much did we spend on this
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being a hundred percent honest with you guys i actually don't know james how
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much did we spend on this thing six grand
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is that the base bottle not quite but almost
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ah it's too bad praying to the apple gods
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doesn't make their products any cheaper
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okay so apple is finally
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demonstrating in a way with like a real actual product that you can really
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actually buy that they give a
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about the enthusiast prosumer slash
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professional all those categories because
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for a while there you could make a pretty strong argument
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for them just giving exactly zero f's about any of
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those groups of end users
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this is the imac pro and i have been
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known to give apple crap about throwing
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pro on anything that they're trying to sell to home users who want to feel all warm
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and fuzzy and professional but this thing does look pretty pro
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spec wise our model rocks a 27 inch display 5k
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xeon w the w is for workstation pro
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workstation okay we're on the same page so far 32 gigs of ecc memory one
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terabyte SSD a vega 56 graphics card okay that's not especially professional
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facetime camera four Thunderbolt 3 ports and
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something that i've been asking for proper support from apple for for quite
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some time something i actually didn't realize that this was gonna have until i
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saw it on the box oh i'm sorry brandon wow this is a lot
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of packaging
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gotta give apple credit they uh they want stuff to get to you in one
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piece did i did i say what the thing was that
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i had 10 gigabit networking because
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for years apple has been on the
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no we don't need 10 gigabit lan because we
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have Thunderbolt train but the reality is that
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Thunderbolt is a point to point connection
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which is great for end user or prosumer
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but as soon as you need to share resources
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Ethernet is the way to go like if our
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workplace was set up around the mac it would be nearly impossible for one
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person to pick up where someone else left off on a project if somebody phoned
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in sick for example what the hell
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look at all the packaging for this power cord
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first of all make sure you open this your power cord's in there it's got a little pull tab
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then this entire look at the box they designed to hold this power cord
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i mean i'm all for a great unboxing experience
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and everything but this was three pieces
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i mean three easily recyclable
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brown cardboard pieces mind you but like
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four pieces four pieces
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world's most amazing power cord
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oh wait no it's just a normal power cord that sits flush with the back your
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computer well we won't be needing these
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gaming peripherals although vega 56 graphics card i mean
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you could game on this thing do some cryptocurrency mining
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well this is professional look at that a number pad
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so there are some improvements even to the peripherals that from my personal
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experience are legendarily non-ergonomic
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the keyboard's okay but i'm still not a fan of this mouse design
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got your gesture nonsense on the top you got your left you got your right click
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yeah okay i always get this feeling when i'm
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opening up apple products that
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like because i don't worship them as a company i'm like somehow undeserving
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of an experience right now that someone else somewhere on earth
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would just be so excited for
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i just they're doing a lot right here
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but i'm still not necessarily sold on six thousand dollars for this
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particular spec regardless of whether it's canadian rupees or us dollars
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wow it's really light and they actually managed to i mean at
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least to the naked eye i don't have the old
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previous imac for comparison because i sold it
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but to the eye doesn't look that big by comparison so
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they have crammed a lot of performance
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in here i will say this though they have clearly left larger
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vents for cooling back there look at that and
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what's also interesting back here is that gone
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is the convenient hatch where you can access your memory modules to upgrade
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them i o wise we've got your audio connectors
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still on the back i guess we were not getting away from that sd card reader
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nice to see four usb 3s of some flavor
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or another four Thunderbolt that is gorgeous and 10 gigabit lan that's
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really exciting to me personally because once apple does it other people start
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taking it seriously and 10 gig networking is something that really
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really needs to happen uh down here is where we've got all of
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our intake vents all along the bottom and so this guy must be the exhaust
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right over here got your cable management hole here i really like the
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aesthetic of this thing that dark kind of like i guess this is kind of a space
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gray or something i don't know what they what apple would call it but this dark
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aesthetic is really really nice it screams professional and not in that way
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that's like i'm a professional you know like glossy plastic or something like
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that no like it actually looks pro so the rumor is that apple has a
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replacement to the mac pro coming like a proper replacement like a desktop
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computer with a separate monitor and a cable
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between them you know like an actual workstation coming
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but for the time being this is the highest end product
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in their lineup and as much as that like kind of sucks
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because i'm really not a huge fan of the fact that this gorgeous monitor that i
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paid for and this powerful computer that
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i also paid for are just married together forever this
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was something i complained about with the previous 5k imac the fact that you
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can't just use it as a monitor with like a future apple desktop
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but with that said it's not a terrible looking machine
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spent a lot of time this holidays on my knees
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like not like like playing card games with my kids and stuff
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shout out and once again
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i am going through the usual freaking thing that i go through with a mac
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where i don't know how to do anything smb colon slash slash no we don't use
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backslashes on the mac we use forward slashes all right so let's find the test folder
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i want to test out that 10 gigabit networking
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fortunately i have a 10 gigabit switch
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right here ready to freaking rock because i am ready
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for the 10 gigabit revolution here as usual the screen is gorgeous can never
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fault apple for the display
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you can fault them for not remembering what bloody button to press to make the
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oh oh look at it go yeah it's more brightness
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than any than any man needs hey what is this 12 gigs 12 gig file here we go here
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we go you guys ready for the 12 gig file to the raid 0
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SSD boot drive look at that go
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oh it's beautiful
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it's not actually that fast it's pretty fast yeah i know that's pretty fast so
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we're doing like 300 megabytes a second for apple people that's really fast
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oh quick time i can't double click to make it full screen
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wow i guess i better go find a hotkey
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i don't know what it is oh am i really going to make myself use
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this thing again for all my software frustrations though
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i mean if you're gonna run Windows on it this is the sexiest
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Windows all-in-one that's for sure so let me know guys this is just an
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unboxing but we're gonna have a review coming at least
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i want to take a look at the upgrade experience as well it's got a vega 56 in
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it so i'd love to look at the gaming experience too but let us know in the
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comments on this video what you guys want to hear from us
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about the mac maybe another really interesting piece would be
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building out a top of the line imac pro
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so we've actually got some spare chips that we could upgrade it with we could
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get this pretty close to full spec and then how it would compare price-wise
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to a top-of-the-line pc workstation something like this this thing can take
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up to two zeon processors so
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