Seems like an awful lot of money just to watch porn.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Seems like an awful lot of money just to watch porn.

Apparently you've never seen porn in 5K .

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Originally posted by Copefree:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Seems like an awful lot of money just to watch porn.

Apparently you've never seen porn in 5K .

4K was bad enough to destroy the fantasy with all the zits, blemishes, and cheese. 5K will just let you zoom into the really nasty stuff! ;-0

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Originally posted by Orguss:
If we could expand this thread to include all the WWDC announcements, I'd like to say how excited I am that TV OS is going to allow for Amazon Instant Video service.

Will this capability cross over to older Apple TVs?

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Originally posted by r0gue:

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Originally posted by Orguss:
If we could expand this thread to include all the WWDC announcements, I'd like to say how excited I am that TV OS is going to allow for Amazon Instant Video service.

Will this capability cross over to older Apple TVs?

Since the feature is part of the tvOS upgrade, and not a hardware upgrade, the answer would be "yes", as long as your older TV is compatible with the new OS version. At a point in every Apple product line, their OS upgrades start dropping some older models from the compatibility list.
 

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Originally posted by Spokane228:

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Originally posted by architect:
I have the current iMac, with the 27" 5K display, and I still get the beachball.

The iMP looks pretty slick, however, if the cost isn't too off-putting. With Xeon support in macOS (i.e. flagged as an "acceptable" processor), it may allow application of OS updates denied to date to certain system configurations, e.g. Hackintosh, or legacy Apple hardware (Xserve).

Now let's talk about something with comparable specs, but in a rack-mount chassis, with multiple speedy external interfaces, redundant power supplies, and serious cooling... would potentially get Macs back into the 24x7 data center (Mac minis don't cut it for running multiple VM guests, even when clustered). C'mon Apple, mainstream IT will never take you seriously as a hardware supplier without considering the data center.

Curious if you ever worked with the X-serve. (I think that's what they were). 1 rack unit high, hot swapable drives, remote admin. They seemed cool although I could never justify talking my boss into one.

Had several in the printing company I used to work at (since defunked 2012). Dual fiber (Multiplex? I forgot what the term was) where you got 2 gb fibers bonded delivering a staggering (at the time) massive data to the RIP and platemaker (each plate needed between 6-10 gig of data. Needed 8 plates per press)

Those XServers were great.

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Originally posted by Spokane228:
I'm as much a fanboy as anyone. But a $5,000 iMac? Are you kidding me????

You could build a comparable unit with a 4K monitor and off-the-shelf Dell Precision for $2000, however it wouldn't have fruit on it, let alone a piece of fruit that has a bite out of it.

(This coming from a guy that uses Macs all the time.)

I'm gonna save more money not buying one of these than I saved by quitting smoking.

How about $17,000 for an iMac?

https://thetechportal.com/2017.../top-apple-imac-pro/

Apple’s top end iMac Pro could cost well over $17,000

Apple’s iMac Pro sent out large shock-waves when it first arrived on the scene. After all, a device which costs $4,999 in its base configuration is bound to be hiding something special under the hood. Well, if you think the base model is pricey, wait till you hear what the top model costs.

So Apple has yet to send out official estimates of what the top model could cost. However, ZDNet has managed to reach a pretty shrewd estimate of what the device could cost base upon its what specs a top end iMac model could pack.

So first up is the processor. Assuming that the top end model rocks a Xeon E5-2697 inside, the cost borne by Apple for the 18-core processor would be over $2,200. However, Apple generally applies a massive 70% plus up charge on the processors and going by that, the 18-core upgrade could around $4,000.

Similarly, a 128-GB RAM could bump up the cost by around $2,700. On the other hand, no estimates were available for the Pro Vega 16GB HBM2 memory upgrade that the device is likely to sport. In this case, ZDNet used a clever bit of comparison between Nvidia’s GTX Titan X with 6GB and 12GB memory to reach its estimate of $2,000 — after an 80 percent markup by Apple.

Finally, the cost for a 4TB SSD was estimated and stood somewhere around $3,600. Honestly though, a 4TB SSD! Who would have thought such a thing was even possible just a few years ago. But then that is the beauty of science. It never ceases to amaze you.

So with all said and done, the final estimated price for iMac Pro, top end model, came out to be somewhere around $17,299. It is an estimate true, but personally, I feel as if it won’t fall too far of its mark. As far as the question of the system being too expensive is concerned, well the kind of specifications it boasts of make it a beast, and well worth the price.

I bought the 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake processor, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB SSD at the Apple Store today. Went to compare the 13 and 15 inch boxes, thought they wouldn't have one with upgraded memory but they did.
I'm very pleased so far--great screen, great trackpad, even like the touchpad buttons. Keyboard feel is different but OK. Box is actually smaller, but screen same size as older MacBook Air.
If you get a 15 inch model you get a quad-core processor, but I only occasionally do things like video editing that use a lot of processor power, so should be fine.

Congrats sjtill! I have an 8 year old iMac that still does pretty well. That's a testament. I never had to reimage it to bring it back to life. That's saying something about Mac. Not perfect, and an annoying company from time to time. But the OSX and Mac combination is tough to beat for me.

I too just threw down on the mid level stock 21" in order to have a 2nd iMac for the kids. Too much competition for it with homework. A 21" 4k computer with quad core. To... do.. homework... hahaha!

I suspect this will get me all the way through my kids HS career and off to college to get stolen someday. hehe