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Originally Posted by chucker
Don't underestimate the 2019 Coffee Lake iMac. Sure, it still has the old cooling system, so the Pro will do better on sustained loads.
But for a lot of tasks, the iMac will not only be significantly be cheaper, but also faster. You can configure it to eight cores at just $2,699 compared to the iMac Pro's $4,999. And that CPU will be 16% faster in single-core and even slightly faster in multi-core. It's really only when you need workloads with ten, fourteen, eighteen cores that the iMac Pro starts destroying the lesser iMac, and odds are you don't have that kind of workload. (And if you do, consider if it'll also run on a GPU, in which case an eGPU solution might actually be cheaper and faster!)
So if you're considering the base model iMac Pro, think again if that's a good deal. The (overdue) 2019 iMac upgrade made it a far worse deal.
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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
If Apple is keeping it at 8GB just so folks feel like they have something else to step up to, I would respectfully request that they knock it the hell off.  There would still be BTO options for the processor and storage.. |
Funny thing: The MacBook Air has no processor option. So Apple well knows that they can make a decision for buyers that makes sense even if there is no option to bump.
RAM is a profit center for Apple, and a large one. At the end of the day, there are certainly technical reasons for their decisions, but there are also profit motives. With laptops it's all about performance and reliability first, and profit second. With desktops the technical issues are trumped by profit issues. There is no technical reason that a trap door cannot exist over the RAM slots on 21" iMacs or iMac Pros, but it would be asymmetrical because the doors would be upper right/left from the back side and that wouldn't look good. So they bury them for "technical" reasons and take advantage of the customer.
Because people care what the wall-facing side of the computer looks like*. 
*Some people do, but that number is very small. Maybe it's Hollywood?
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Last edited by kscherer : 2020-02-04 at 12:05.
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