Apple at its WWDC 2017 keynote, as expected, announced an update to its iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air lineup of devices. The company also teased its all-new iMac Pro - the most powerful Mac ever - which will be available starting December this year.
The new iMacs will be powered by Intel’s 7th generation Kaby Lake processors. The display can notch brightness of 500 nits, making them up to 43 percent brighter than the earlier generation. The 21.5-inch model comes with up to 32GB of RAM, whereas the 27-inch model can have up to 64GB of storage. The new iMacs are also the first desktop computers to embrace the new USB Type-C (or Thunderbolt 3) port.
The graphics cards on the new iMacs are also getting a big specification boost. The entry-level 21.5-inch model will be powered by Intel Iris Plus 640 GPU, whereas the 4K 21.5-inch model gets Radeon Pro 555 and 560 graphics solution. The 27-inch 5K model, on the other hand, will come with Radeon Pro 570, 575, and 580 graphics cards with VRAM of 8GB.
In terms of pricing, the 21.5-inch iMac will start at $1,099 (approximately Rs 70,800), whereas the 4K 21.5-inch model will set you back by $1,299 (approximately Rs 83,600).
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The company also offered a sneak peek at the iMac Pro which is marketed as new "workstation-class product line designed for pro users with the most demanding workflows." Apple is calling it the most power Mac ever. The all-new iMac Pro sports 27-inch Retina 5K display with up to 18-core Xeon processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation. The all-new iMac Pro will come in new Space Grey enclosure.
The iMac Pro is scheduled to ship in December starting at $4,999 in the US. The company also detailed a new thermal architecture that is said to give it 80 percent more cooling capacity in the regular iMac design. It ships with the new AMD Radeon Pro Vega GPU with 16GB of HBM2 memory. It supports up to 4TB SSD, 128GB ECC RAM, four Thunderbolt 3 ports, and 10Gb Ethernet - a first for Mac.
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Giving a sneak peek of the new iMac Pro, Ternus said, "We're thrilled to give developers and customers a sneak peek at iMac Pro. This will be our fastest and most powerful Mac ever, which brings workstation-class computing to iMac for the first time. We reengineered the whole system and designed an entirely new thermal architecture to pack extraordinary performance into the elegant, quiet iMac enclosure our customers love iMac Pro is a huge step forward and there's never been anything like it."
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