We jumped on supporting it right away in Slugline. I was open to the Touch Bar when it was first introduced.

What I did not expect is that a laptop might beat it to the punch in replacing my trusty desktop powerhouse.

After the impressive launch of Apple’s home-grown M1 processor, I’ve been thrilled to imagine what the next pro iMac might look like. I color graded a 20-minute short in 4k on this machine, and it did eventually get a bit bogged down.Īt the four-year mark, the iMac Pro is about ready for a replacement. While I’ve had to work hard to find any apps that will push its CPU to the limit, the same has not been true for GPU. I never hear its fans over the other noises in my studio. The iMac Pro is incredibly stable - I might restart it once a month or so. I frequently have a dozen apps open at a time, and it runs 24/7 executing automations and remote and local renders.

Four years later, with ten CPU cores and 128 GB of DDR RAM, it’s still my solid workhorse. When Apple released the iMac Pro, I immediately bought two iMacs-worth of it. This culminated with a machine that seemed to indicate Apple agreed that iMacs are suited for professional work. With each new machine, everything got better - CPU, GPU, storage, memory, and display. This frequent-iMac-upgrade plane worked great for me for about a decade. My habit at the time was to budget a replacement maxed-out iMac every three or so years rather than spend more on an ostensibly upgradable Mac Pro. When Apple announced the Trash Can, I recommended folks consider spending the same money on two iMacs. I just know myself well enough to know I’ll be too lazy to pull apart my machine and swap out parts.

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