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 about the parameter settings that will raise the price later this year, and promised to equip the iMac Pro with the best hardware available on the market.
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.
As far as RAM is concerned, if the basic model came with 32GB RAM, the final price in the expensive model could reach 2.700 dollars if it comes with 128GB 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 not least, the card graphics, which is expected to be the Radeon Pro Vega. Although this card is not yet available, a comparison with NVIDIA's GTX Titan X along with Apple's overpricing brings the final cost to around $2.000.
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 the Surface Studio is still much more affordable compared to the maxed out iMac Pro. The top configuration of Microsoft's all-in-one costs $4.199 and comes with an Intel Core i7 processor, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of Rapid Hybrid Drive storage, and NVIDIA graphics. GeForce GTX 980M with 4GB.