Apple iMac Pro packs a xeon punch for $4999, regular iMac's get boost too .

Apple has officially anounced the most powerful iMac yet .The new system , dubbed the iMac pro , brings Mac Pro specs to a iMac shell - enabling creators to take advantage of both the display and the performance previously set apart from their original design intentions .

First of all , the new iMac Pro brings about the excellent 5k ips display from Apple's previous top dog iMac - this now features 1 billion colors and you also get 22 tflops of performance of this next gen Xeon ,Radeon Vega eqipped computer.pricing for this beast is $4999.

“We’re thrilled to give developers and customers a sneak peek at iMac Pro. This will be our fastest and most powerful Mac ever, which brings workstation-class computing to iMac for the first time,” said John Ternus, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering. “We reengineered the whole system and designed an entirely new thermal architecture to pack extraordinary performance into the elegant, quiet iMac enclosure our customers love — iMac Pro is a huge step forward and there’s never been anything like it.”

The specs of the" fastes iMac ever" are as follows

*27" 5120x2880 IPS LCD , 500 nits of brightness,p3 gamut
*8,10,18 core Intel Xeon server class processor
*32GB ram DDR4 expandable upto 64 or 128GB options
*1TB SSD , expandable upto 2TB or 4TB
*Radeon Vega 56 series GPU , 8GB memory upgradable to Vega 64 with 16GB memory.
*Direct output to 2 5k displays or 4 4K UHD monitors
*usual connection IO and new 10GB ethernet.
*macOS High sierra

Apple also upgraded its regular iMac fleet to the new Kaby lake processor standard and reduced the price of many , The displays of the iMac's have also been upgraded to 500 nits of brightness and the 4K and 5K variants are P3 compliant.

$1099 Base 21" iMac

*21.5" 1920x1080 IPS LCD , 500 nits of brightness,
*Dual core Intel i5 7th gen processor , 2.3Ghz
*8GB ram DDR4 expandable upto 16 GB options
*1TB HDD , expandable upto 1TB + 256GB SSD fusion drive
*Intel Iris Pro 640 gpu
*usual connection IO
*macOS High sierra

$1299 Base 21" 4K iMac

*21.5" 4096x2160 IPS LCD , 500 nits of brightness,P3 gamut
*Quad core Intel i5 7th gen processor , 3.0Ghz with boost 3.5Ghz
Optional Quad core Intel i7 3.6Ghz processor wih boost 4.2 Ghz
*8GB ram DDR4 expandable upto 16 GB options
*1TB HDD , expandable upto 1TB + 256GB,512GB SSD fusion drive
*Radeon pro 555 graphics , 2GB memory
*usual connection IO
*macOS High sierra

$1499 21" 4K iMac

*21.5" 4096x2160 IPS LCD , 500 nits of brightness,P3 gamut
*Quad core Intel i5 7th gen processor , 3.6Ghz with boost 3.8Ghz
Optional Quad core Intel i7 3.6Ghz processor wih boost 4.2 Ghz
*8GB ram DDR4 expandable upto 16/32 GB options
*1TB HDD , expandable upto 1TB + 256GB,512GB,1TB SSD fusion drive
*Radeon pro 560 graphics , 4GB memory
*usual connection IO
*macOS High sierra

$1799 Base 27" 4K iMac

*27" 5120x2880 IPS LCD , 500 nits of brightness,P3 gamut

*Quad core Intel i5 7th gen processor , 3.5Ghz with boost 4.1Ghz

*8GB ram DDR4 expandable upto 16/32 GB options User accessible DIMM slots

*1TB HDD fusion drive expandable upto 2TB or 256GB,512GB,1TB SSD

*Radeon pro 570 graphics , 4GB memory

*usual connection IO

*macOS High sierra

$1999 27" 4K iMac

*27" 5120x2880 IPS LCD , 500 nits of brightness,P3 gamut

*Quad core Intel i5 7th gen processor , 3.6Ghz with boost 3.8Ghz

Optional Quad core Intel i7 4.2Ghz processor wih boost 4.5 Ghz

*8GB ram DDR4 expandable upto 16/32 GB/64GB options, user accessible DIMM slots

*1TB HDD fusion drive expandable upto 2TB43TB or 256GB,512GB,1TB SSD

*Radeon pro 575 graphics , 4GB memory

*usual connection IO

*macOS High sierra

$2299 27" 4K iMac

*27" 5120x2880 IPS LCD , 500 nits of brightness,P3 gamut

*Quad core Intel i5 7th gen processor , 3.8Ghz with boost 4.2Ghz

Optional Quad core Intel i7 4.2Ghz processor wih boost 4.5 Ghz

*8GB ram DDR4 expandable upto 16/32 GB/64GB options ,user accessible DIMM slots.

*2TB HDD fusion drive expandable upto 2TB or 512GB,1TB , 2TB SSD

*Radeon pro 580 graphics , 8GB memory

*usual connection IO

*macOS High sierra

Written by Rakitha for MasHD

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