Pro Users Don't WANT an All-In-One

[yadmonkey]

Who would invest in all-in one workstation if you cannot use the display anymore after the time?
Very disappointing, and it's not even cheap. With 5k screen, perhaps, but then I'm throwing away 5k screen anyway.

Why are you throwing away your 5k iMac? I like to sell my Macs after 2-3 years and get the newest. You might be surprised at the value they retain. If you're a pro user, then this isn't an extravagant concept. Let someone else deal with entropy.

 

[jouster]

Let me know when they're ready to drag a $5-10K, 27", 30 Pound Laptop around.

I don't think his/her point was that the iMac is technically portable in the sense that it could be lugged somewhere.

I think it was more that there are many pros (whatever they are) who use only the screen Apple provides as part of the computer, and if that is acceptable to them in a laptop it will be acceptable to them in a desktop.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Mac Pro with v2 8-core Xeon, 32GB of DDR3 ECC ram and 1TB SSD = $4999
iMac Pro with v6 8-core Xeon, 32GB of DDR4 ECC ram, 1TB SSD and 10bit HDR display = $4999

For the same price, you get so much more with iMac Pro. Keyboard, mouse, Vega GPU, TB3, very fast SSD... Reviews will tell, how noisy machine it is going to be. Before that we can only guess...

 

[koyoot]

Yes. Pro users do not want All-in-one. The REAL Pros! All other Pros are not REAL Pros.

You do not want it. Im pretty sure nobody in Apple will care over the complaints and enjoy pretty huge number of sales on this iMac. And those who will buy will appreciate it, and enjoy buying it from Apple.

 

[Jack Burton]

No, what happened is they thought the iMac Pro would be their replacement for the Mac Pro ... because their execs aren't in tune with their pro customers. Once they got raked over the coals by the press for the sorry state of the Mac Pro and also realized the myopic design of the iMac Pro was going to piss off even more pro customers, they got to work on the modular/expandable version. But they are a couple of years behind the ball on that one.

So we get the iMac Pro in the meantime because it was already in the cards. It's not an intentional stopgap.

This rings true for me.

I think many people are OK with the iMac pro precisely because it is one in a lineup: iMac, iMac Pro, modular Mac Pro to come.