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iMac Pro (2017)

Apple announced one product on 14 December 2017: iMac Pro (2017).

It was the 6th of 6 dated moments the archive holds for 2017, 41 days after the previous one, 3 November 2017.

iMac Pro (2017) product photograph

Rafael Fernandez · CC BY-SA 4.0

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iMac Pro (2017)

Mac · iMac · discontinued 5 March 2021

The iMac Pro is an all-in-one personal computer and workstation sold by Apple from 2017 to 2021. At its release, it was one of four desktop computers in the Macintosh lineup, sitting above the consumer range Mac Mini and iMac, and serving as an all-in-one alternative to the Mac Pro. After the cylindrical Mac Pro redesign went years without any update, Apple hosted a roundtable with journalists promising a redesign and commitment to professional Mac computers; the iMac Pro was introduced in the interim before the revised Mac Pro shipped in 2019.

Externally, the iMac Pro is nearly identical to the consumer iMac, albeit in a darker finish. Apple redesigned the internals to provide cooling for workstation Intel Xeon processors and AMD Vega graphics. The iMac Pro was positively received by critics, who praised its quiet performance and appeal as an all-in-one machine, while criticizing its lack of expansion and upgradability, as well as the drawbacks it retained from the regular iMac. After receiving only minor updates, the machine was discontinued in March 2021, and was replaced by the revised Mac Pro and the Mac Studio.

Also in 2017

Sources

  1. iMac Pro (2017) · Wikipedia

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