This gave me a chance to compare how these machines stacked up against each other in the kind of work we actually do. This shop has a mix of NLEs (Adobe, Apple, Avid, Blackmagic Design), but our primary tool is Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018. There are plenty of videos and articles on the web about how these machines perform but, the testers often use artificial benchmarks or only Final Cut Pro X. The new configuration is a mix of three, one-year-old Retina 5K iMacs (late 2015 model), a 2013 “trash can” Mac Pro, and three 2017 iMac Pros. The company picked up three of them – replacing two Mac Pro towers and an older iMac. It was time to upgrade the oldest machines, which led us to consider the iMac Pros. These edit stations consisted of a mix of old and new Mac Pros and iMacs (connected via 10GigE), with a Mac Mini for the auxiliary (1GigE). Our editing set-up consists of seven workstations, plus an auxiliary machine connected to a common QNAP shared storage network. I work mostly these days with a production company that produces and posts commercials, corporate videos, and entertainment programming. Underneath the sexy, all-in-one, space grey enclosure, the iMac Pro offers serious workstation performance. After all, the iMac line is the direct descendant in spirit and design of the original Macintosh.
While this could be characterized as a stop-gap effort until the next generation of Mac Pro is produced, that doesn’t detract from the usefulness and power of this design in its own right. At the end of December, Apple made good on the release of the new iMac Pro and started selling and shipping the new workstations.
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