Apple iMac Pro review: Iron fist in a velvet glove

To be fair, of any iMac Apple hfrom physical perspective at least, between iMac Pro and 5K iMac launched four years ago. Buried deep in the heart of the I have to review is 3.2GHz eight-core, 16-thread Xeon W-2140B processor, and you can upgrade that to 3GHz ten-core, 2.5GHz 14-core or 4.3GHz 18-core chip if you want more processing grunt and future-proofing..  4TB SSD and Radeon Pro Vega 64 and, let's face it, 279.. It's intended to deal with power-hungry tasks such complex creation and mixing, CAD CAM, 3D visualisation and design, even VR-driven design work the sorts of thing car manufacturers like McClaren starting to do with their car chassis design. But you're working with layer effects, or you deal with 3D models on regular basis, the power will certainly come in handy, as will iMac Pro's ECC RAM. That will largely on the sorts of tasks you put it to, and in our suite of benchmarks, iMac Pro puts water between and the 5K iMac.. I alincluding Cinebench and down-conversion of 4K movie file to 1080p the sort of process users of iMac Pro would be likely to have to do on regular basis and none of these threw up any issues.. Compared with selection of similarly equipped desktop workstations tested recently by our sister title PC Pro, iMac Pro I have on test here stacks up competitively, and it's althe iMac Pro remained responsive, quiet and thermally stable.. Out of the box, iMac's 5K IPS panel comes tuned to DCI-P3 colour space and, it was absolutely spot on, reproducing 98.9% of DCI-P3 colour space. The gloss finish is not ideal either although in the I was using the machine, iMac Pro's anti-reflective coating did job of keeping distractions to minimum..  Read more