Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 14-12-2017

Apple has released the iMac Pro, an all-in-one desktop aimed at professionals, saying it’s the fastest, most powerful Mac ever built from the ground up.

Unveiled in June at Apple’s developer conference, the iMac Pro features Xeon processors up to 18 cores, 22 Teraflops of graphics performance, and a 27-inch Retina 5K display.

The iMac Pro is incredibly thin at just 5mm at its edge. It comes in a new space grey finish with a matching Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse and optional Magic Trackpad. It also includes a black Lightning cable, something that you can’t yet buy separately.

iMac Pro also comes with four microphones with beamforming technology, a new 1080p FaceTime HD camera with enhanced low-light performance, and new speakers that are up to 50 percent louder.

The new desktop also supports up to 4TB of SSD and up to 128GB of ECC memory, and with four Thunderbolt 3 ports, can connect up to two high-performance RAID arrays and two 5K displays at the same time. For the first time ever on a Mac, iMac Pro features 10Gb Ethernet for up to 10 times faster networking.

Apple’s Vice-President of hardware engineering John Ternus says, the iMac Pro combines the design of the iMac with a powerful workstation architecture.

“iMac is the most popular desktop for our pro users due to its amazing display and elegant design, so we completely re-engineered it to deliver performance far beyond what anyone thought possible in an all-in-one.”

While the iMac Pro delivers incredible compute power for real-time 3-D rendering, immersive VR, intensive developer workflows, high megapixel photography, complex simulations, massive audio projects and real-time 4K and 8K video editing, it is also Apple’s most expensive computer.

The iMac Pro is available on December 14, starting at an Apple retail price of £4,899 (R 88,500).

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