Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued, Recommends 27-Inch iMac
I&#x27;m not a bit surprised they&#x27;re doing it. I literally have an iMac Pro, 18 core Xeon with 64 gigs RAM, and a newer M1 Macbook Pro with 16 gigs RAM that was a quarter the price.<p>The M1 laptop at a quarter the price is faster than the maxed-out Intel-based iMac Pro. Not for everything… I do streaming using software x264 encoding and can set the quality levels way higher on the iMac Pro as it&#x27;s native and  18 cores (the laptop&#x27;s running OBS in Rosetta and has 8 cores, four of which are efficiency cores). But for some things the laptop&#x27;s already a bit faster, consistently, right now. At a quarter of the price.<p>I&#x27;m guessing their experiments with scaling up what&#x27;s in the initial M1-based Macs to more power vs. just maximum efficiency (for instance, a desktop that doesn&#x27;t need to get 20 hour battery life and can actively cool itself) are turning out so shocking that they know they&#x27;ve got to kill the current product line, immediately.<p>I bought my iMac Pro in June 2020. That&#x27;s a little over half a year ago, and I&#x27;m still frustrated that they took my money knowing they&#x27;ve got this in development. It&#x27;s a good thing it has such a nice screen and still has plenty of use, but it&#x27;s going to be absolutely decimated by what comes out next. It&#x27;s pretty well decimated now by my little laptop if you count how much energy is wasted, and how for certain tasks the giant &#x27;Pro&#x27; monster absolutely cannot keep up with the introductory M1 models running native code, at a quarter or an eighth of the cost.<p>There is no WAY they can keep selling their current line. Right now they shouldn&#x27;t be selling anything that isn&#x27;t an M1 or some other Apple Silicon.