It's one of the best consumer displays I've seen, but it's still a consumer-class monitor with an 8-bit FRC panel that simulates 'billions of colors.' You can certainly attach multiple higher-end monitors to the system, but the whole attraction of an all-in-one's small footprint is, well, the small footprint. The Pro also incorporates the same display as the iMac. But it occurred to me that it could also serve to put the system on a less stylish, more functional stand.

Doesn't the iMac display deserve the same attention?Īpple also added the ability for end-users to convert it to use VESA mount, normally used for hanging a monitor on the wall. Apple was so proud of going bezel-free on the iPhone X. But even diehards would like to be able to raise and lower the display or be able to use the SD card slot without having to contort around the back of the system. It's nice that Apple managed to shoehorn so much power into an old design, but it would have been even better if Apple had redesigned it instead, even more so if it it paid attention to the needs of pros.Īpple talks about its iMac fans like they adore the current design and that's who they made this system for. It seems like the company occasionally makes a big push to attract those users then forgets about them for years at a time then makes another push. I'm still reserving judgment on Apple's dedication to its pro graphics community. But be warned: virtual machines are the big exception to that rule. And you'd be surprised how little memory is used by operations you thought were memory intensive. Applications and operations I expected to be faster on a high-powered system simply aren't because they're optimized for fewer cores or don't run operations on the GPU yet. In general, you're constrained by peripheral responsiveness, external input/output interfaces and other aspects of your workflow. Aside from the mind-boggling arcana you have to think about when it comes to figuring where your frequently used applications will get the biggest power boost from, I also find that the bottlenecks frequently have nothing to do with the system itself.

Keep in mind, however, that more cores and better GPU performance doesn't necessarily translate into a faster system.

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