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The iMac Pro starts at $4,999 and was (probably) intended to be Apple's only "pro" desktop but the desire for an upgradable system was too much so Apple caved and a new Mac Pro is on the horizon. Apple is going to charge a premium for that upgradability that the iMac Pro doesn't have, I'll bet the base price for the Mac Pro is going to be at least $5,999.

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> was (probably) intended to be Apple's only "pro" desktop

Apple specifically said in 2017 (before the release of the iMac Pro) that they messed up the 2013 Mac Pro, that they would make a new modular Mac Pro but it would take a long time to finish, and that the iMac Pro would be a stopgap.

It was a private press event, so the best source on this is probably Daring Fireball: https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

I bought a 48-core rig (Dual socket ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS w/ 2x Xeon E7-8890V4's) w/ a 10TB RAID5 array of 10800 RPM disks, 128GB DDR4 ECC, and a 1TB SSD for $5k...

Granted it was from some dude's homelab after he got laid off at Cray but still.

When you get up to that dollar amount I feel like there's just much sweeter shit out there.

One gripe is the thing is fucking massive and kinda unwieldy stuffed into a Coolermaster Cosmos II case...

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