Apple announced at WWDC that it will release an iMac Pro later this year, but only revealed the price ofmovements, stating that the most affordable will be at $4.999.
The company promised to offer more information on the settings of specs that will raise the price even more later this year, and promised to equip the iMac Pro with the best possible hardware to be marketed.
ZDNet appreciated how much the iMac Pro will cost and the result is incredible.
First of all, the processor. Although no information has been given on the CPU to be used by Apple, the company is likely to use an 8-core Intel chip for the original model, priced at $ 419 per chip. The more expensive iMac Pro model will most likely come with an 18-core Xeon processor and an estimated processor price of $ 2.282, not to mention Apple's overpricing.
Cupertino usually adds another 75% to the regular price of the parts, so only the processor could cost no less than 4.000 dollars.
Regarding the μνήμη RAM, if the base model came with 32GB of RAM the final price on the expensive model could reach $2.700 if it comes with 128GB of RAM.
The storage space now: A teardown from iFixIt discovered that Apple used a Samsung M.2 flash SSD in MacBook Pro. Boosting the capacity at 4TB and adding Cupertino values we have the incredible price of 3.600 dollars.
And last, but equally important, is the graphics card, which is expected to be Radeon Pro Vega. Although this card is not yet available, a comparison with NVIDIA GTX Titan X along with Apple's over-pricing reaches the final cost of approximately 2.000 dollars.
This means that a high-specification iMac Pro could not cost more than 17.299 dollars.
The iMac Pro will be a direct rival to its Surface Studio Microsoft, an all-in-one PC that was announced in the fall of last year and also comes with a pretty hefty price tag.
But Surface Studio is still much more affordable than the maxed out iMac Pro. Microsoft's all-in-one configuration costs 4.199 dollars and comes with an Intel Core i7 processor, 32GB RAM, Rapid Hybrid Drive 2TB storage, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics card with 4GB.
