{"id":17785,"date":"2017-04-19T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17785"},"modified":"2018-06-02T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:48:13","slug":"rumors-of-the-2017-imac-and-imac-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/rumors-of-the-2017-imac-and-imac-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumors of the 2017 iMac and iMac Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/18\/new-imacs-server-grade-coming-end-2017\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/18\/new-imacs-server-grade-coming-end-2017\/\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s new range of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/imac\/\">iMac<\/a>s will launch in the second half of 2017 and will include a &ldquo;server-grade&rdquo; model to cater for the high end creative professional market, according to Taiwan-based supply chain sources.<\/p><p>Apple has already confirmed it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/04\/apple-says-new-imacs-coming-this-year\/\">working on new iMac models<\/a> for release later this year, but today&rsquo;s report offers another hint at what could be in store for creative pros and puts a more specific timeframe on those plans. According to the report, production of two new iMacs is said to begin next month, with a view to launching the consumer desktops between August and October and a &ldquo;server-grade model&rdquo; at the tail end of 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&rsquo;re not out of the woods yet. Given that Apple was planning a more powerful iMac before it committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/18\/new-imacs-server-grade-coming-end-2017\/\">updating the Mac Pro<\/a>, I would have expected the iMac Pro to be farther along. And the <em>regular<\/em> iMac is on track for about two years between updates, the longest interval on <a href=\"https:\/\/buyersguide.macrumors.com\/#Mac\">MacRumors&rsquo; guide<\/a>. I guess that&rsquo;s the one I&rsquo;ll wait for because a 4-core Xeon E3 would likely be much more expensive than an i7, for little benefit. The current i7 model (27-inch, 4 GHz, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD&mdash;no 2 TB option) is already $3,789 with a VESA mount. I don&rsquo;t even really want the 5K display, but the 4K model tops out at the 3.3 GHz processor, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB SSD. I already have a display, and if I&rsquo;m going to be limited to one drive, anyway, why not a Mac mini? Because it&rsquo;s limited to a 3 GHz <em>dual-core<\/em> i7 and 16 GB of RAM ($1,999). There just don&rsquo;t seem to be any good options right now to improve my MacBook Pro&rsquo;s processor and RAM. Hopefully before fall.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Apple&rsquo;s new range of iMacs will launch in the second half of 2017 and will include a &ldquo;server-grade&rdquo; model to cater for the high end creative professional market, according to Taiwan-based supply chain sources.Apple has already confirmed it is working on new iMac models for release later this year, but today&rsquo;s report offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-02T19:48:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"585a46c3-020e-4acc-85c5-5a967e2fde69","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-02T19:48:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWFpGwwIOSsyFxVqWfi_eaQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1297,1586,30,1680],"class_list":["post-17785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-imac","tag-imac-pro","tag-mac","tag-vesa"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}