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We need a iMac Pro
- Thread starter kaybeee
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I'd like a Mac mini pro, that way I could upgrade some parts and pick my monitor. Alas the xMac wasn't meant to be. 
I think we need to stop making these threads, sorry but there has been way to many "I want a mid tower.
Honestly the only real thing that differs is the expandability, which besides for RAID cards and more then 8G of RAM Apple has made fairly obsolete.
If I didn't need to run a PCIe DSP card I would swap my MacPro for an iMac any day.
Honestly the only real thing that differs is the expandability, which besides for RAID cards and more then 8G of RAM Apple has made fairly obsolete.
If I didn't need to run a PCIe DSP card I would swap my MacPro for an iMac any day.
iMac Pro
26" H-IPS LCD
PCI-Express slot graphics. Plug in card is covered by a side panel
2 FW 800 ports
4 USB ports
Dual Gigabit ports
Quad Core procs
Dual Hard Drive slots
SATA 6Gbps
2010
6-Core proc
USB 3.0 (2 ports) USB 2.0 (3 ports)
26" H-IPS LCD
PCI-Express slot graphics. Plug in card is covered by a side panel
2 FW 800 ports
4 USB ports
Dual Gigabit ports
Quad Core procs
Dual Hard Drive slots
SATA 6Gbps
2010
6-Core proc
USB 3.0 (2 ports) USB 2.0 (3 ports)
How about we just get rid of the iMac all together?
But seriously, the iMac is meant for the general consumer. If you really need a pro level machine, guess what... Apple already makes one! No one would want an expensive pro-level machine with a screen you can't change and components you can't change, that would just be silly.
But seriously, the iMac is meant for the general consumer. If you really need a pro level machine, guess what... Apple already makes one! No one would want an expensive pro-level machine with a screen you can't change and components you can't change, that would just be silly.
How about we just get rid of the iMac all together?
But seriously, the iMac is meant for the general consumer. If you really need a pro level machine, guess what... Apple already makes one! No one would want an expensive pro-level machine with a screen you can't change and components you can't change, that would just be silly.
What apple needs is something between the iMac and the Mac Pro, for the very large consumer segment looking for a fairly robust small/mid tower solution that could be connected to the beautific Apple Cinema Display, etc.
Apple could produce a $1500 small tower machine with upgradable graphics card and more expansion than the iMac and not even canabilize the iMac sales. Give it a mini display port and mini DVI connection like the Mac Mini. Offer a modern PCI-Express card in it for graphics like the new ATI 4890.
In large lots the quad core i7 is down to $200 or so. Apple would probably pay less. Such a machine could easily have 4 RAM slots.
They would sell a TON of machines like this, but apparently they have no interest in doing so.
Apparently they would rather sell 100,000 Mac Pros than sell 1 Million mid tower machines.
How would that not cannibalize the iMac? The market for a Mac system at that price strate is finite. Apple can't sell a million of these computers and still maintain the iMac sales.
I don't see it as cannibalizing the iMac. The iMac has a screen that is comparable to the 24" ACD that sells for $899.
$1500 mid-tower (entry level) + 24" ACD is going to cost $2400, which is much more than even a top of the line iMac.
If reasonably priced mid-towers took sales away from all in one PCs than that segment wouldn't even exist in the Windows world, and yet that segment is thriving even though a large number of mid tower units are sold.
$4000 price tag
seriously, all in one and professional use hardly go in hand
at this price mac pro, find your own h-ips display
It wouldn't be that much money. LED displays are more rare to
find than a 26" IPS. Dual Gig E really isn't needed all that much but
what I envision a iMac Pro offering is a desktop (i.e no behemoth Mac Pro
chassis) with workstation graphics capability.
For the drive bays simply use 2.5" drives which would barely take up the space occupied by one 3.5"
SATA 6bps is a must.
$2999