{"id":54672,"date":"2017-12-15T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=54672"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:51:10","slug":"apple-tries-again-to-sell-professionals-an-all-in-one-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-tries-again-to-sell-professionals-an-all-in-one-mac.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Tries Again To Sell Professionals An All-In-One Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple Tries Again To Sell Professionals An All-In-One Mac<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Summary<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple launches iMac Pro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple needs more than a stopgap for pro users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple&#8217;s T2 chip slaps a band-aid on Intel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Rethink Technology business briefs for December 14, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple launches iMac Pro<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Today, Apple (AAPL) began sales of its iMac Pro, a more powerful version of iMac aimed a professional users. The new iMacs feature a new space gray finish, and powerful hardware in the form of Intel (INTC) Xeon W Skylake processors and AMD (AMD) Vega graphics processors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The iMac Pro also features the ports it would have been nice to see on the MacBook Pro: Thunderbolt 3, USB 3, 10 Gigabit ethernet, and an SD card slot. The iMac Pro is available with 8 to 18 core Xeon processors, Vega 56 or 64 graphics, up to 128 GB of memory, and up to 4 TB SSD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The lowest end \u201cstandard configuration\u201d (available now) lists for $4999, while the highest end (available in 6-8 weeks) maxes out at $13,199. Certainly, the pricing is \u201cprofessional,\u201d but I find myself wondering how many professionals will be drawn to the iMac Pro. Apple seems once again to be telling professionals that they only need an all-in-one Mac.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Yet there are many professionals who would have no use for the iMac Pro. Most machine-learning researchers would prefer to run their software on an Nvidia (NVDA) Tesla V100, or the new Titan V. These have become the standard platforms for AI development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Scientists and engineers who need supercomputer capability on a budget would also be inclined to look at the Titan V, which lists for considerably less, at $2999, than an iMac Pro. Since modern supercomputers increasingly rely on GPUs such as the Nvidia GV100 for most of the numerical heavy lifting, a professional user could combine one or more Titan Vs in a relatively cheap PC platform for much greater computational capability than is offered by the iMac Pro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4132009-apple-tries-sell-professionals-one-mac<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-tries-again-to-sell-professionals-an-all-in-one-mac.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Tries Again To Sell Professionals An All-In-One Mac Summary Apple launches iMac Pro. Apple needs more than a stopgap for pro users. Apple&#8217;s T2 chip slaps a band-aid on Intel. Rethink Technology business briefs for December 14, 2017. 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