Yes!<p>The Skylake processor in the iMac is something the end user cannot overclock (without doing something extreme). And none of the Mac Pro cores are as fast. And Apple doesn&#x27;t water cool their machines. They simply don&#x27;t offer robust overclocking options to us. So, for a single-core, the 4.0 GHz Skylake in the iMac is the fastest thing Apple offers.<p>If there is an underlying, valid core criticism in this article, it&#x27;s the same one everybody already knows about: Apple doesn&#x27;t offer their end users a truly competitive array of system configurations. Instead, they force their users into carefully defined and limited product tiers, each one costing significantly more than the last.