The iMac Pro is just more proof that Intel's new X299 platform (which this machine is based on) is kind of a joke. At least Apple is not trying to sell it with the overpriced i5x and i7x chips and going right for the i9s.
Apple, I don't get the point of the iMac Pro, sorry. Is this machine for Mac Pro users who just want an AIO, or for rich kids who want it for the bling factor ("My iMac has 18 Cores and Vega!!! YOLO!!!). Most of the people I know who would put that kind of money down on a machine (video/high end photo editors) want to pick their own primary monitor, for colour accuracy purposes. The CPU's will be right for that kind of stuff, and I suppose it would be okay with an external monitor and some high end thunderbolt 3 drive racks.
The one area where I could see these iMac Pros being popular in a lab type environment, where you want to maximize space, but still need the compute power of all those cores, and the workstation class GPU for running simulations.
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