> I still have trouble with the idea of a $10,000 machine that is permanently married to one monitor and unexpandable. If I'm spending that much on a computer I want PCI slots.
Well lucky for you: you can add four 4K external displays in addition to the built-in 5K monitor. And you have a PCIe bus coming straight out the back which you can use to plug in GPUs, drives etc.
That being said the machine may not be right for you, but a big corporate shop is probably quite happy to have a bunch of identical machines it can swap out instead of fixing them in situ, so getting the user up and running faster.
Supposedly they learned from the "trash can" debacle and have something more cheese-grater-esque in the pipeline for later this year.
Sounds like this iMac Pro is not for either of us. I'm going the other way: I develop all my code in Emacs on a MacBook (not "Pro") and when I want to crunch, do the crunching on a cluster on my network. I don't even need the 10G ethernet the Mac Pro has, and it wouldn't be fast enough to do the crunching I need anyway. Would I benefit from a faster machine? Sure, but I don't want to carry even a macbook pro any more -- this ultraportable is so tiny I can take it anywhere.
Well lucky for you: you can add four 4K external displays in addition to the built-in 5K monitor. And you have a PCIe bus coming straight out the back which you can use to plug in GPUs, drives etc.
That being said the machine may not be right for you, but a big corporate shop is probably quite happy to have a bunch of identical machines it can swap out instead of fixing them in situ, so getting the user up and running faster.
Supposedly they learned from the "trash can" debacle and have something more cheese-grater-esque in the pipeline for later this year.
Sounds like this iMac Pro is not for either of us. I'm going the other way: I develop all my code in Emacs on a MacBook (not "Pro") and when I want to crunch, do the crunching on a cluster on my network. I don't even need the 10G ethernet the Mac Pro has, and it wouldn't be fast enough to do the crunching I need anyway. Would I benefit from a faster machine? Sure, but I don't want to carry even a macbook pro any more -- this ultraportable is so tiny I can take it anywhere.