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Processor Intel Xeon W 10-core 3GHz Graphics AMD Vega 64 16GB RAM 128GB 2666MHz ECC Storage 2TB SSD Display 5120x2880 5K Retina display Connections 4x Thunderbolt 3, 4x USB 3, 10Gb Ethernet, SDXC card slot, 3.5mm jack, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2
£9,039 (from £4,899) apple.com/uk
power tool
Apple iMac Pro Apple unleashes its most powerful desktop ever, but disguises it in an iMac’s shell. Is this really the pro-level beast Mac users have been waiting for? 9 2 T3 A p r i l 2 01 8
he iMac Pro is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Actually, that’s underselling it. It’s a small nuclear warhead in sheep’s clothing. Somehow, Apple has packed a workstation with up to an 18-core Intel processor in a frame the exact size of the regular 5K iMac. The only thing more incredible than the engineering feat of producing it is the price you might pay for one. But this a truly pro machine, and that kind of power comes at a cost.
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Specs appeal Apple provided us a pretty trickedout model (see the specs box above) for our review, with a price tag nudging the £10k mark. The ‘basic’ £4,899 model packs an eight-core, 3.2GHz Intel Xeon processor, a less potent 8GB AMD Vega 56 graphics card, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. It’s all hugely configurable, though – even beyond our beefy unit, you can