Apple's decision to revive the "almost dying" Mac Pro tower desktop and its proprietary display monitor iMac is the company's boldest action for 2017. The transformation of the two products is expected to pave the way to next-gen iMacs and Mac Pros which could spell trouble for Microsoft Surface Studio.
Mac Pro's Leap Towards Impressive Transformation
After four years since its last upgrade, Mac Pro is reportedly making a comeback this year with impressive specs. The desktop tower that was once considered as a "trash can" will be revive to cater high-power computing tasks which specifically refers to virtual reality, Road to VR reported.
On this regard, largest GPU spec is expected to land in the next versions of Mac Pro due to heavy components of VR. These components include 3D graphics applications, mixed loads and high-end cinema productions that work well with a single large GPU.
For this reason, Oculus expresses its interest of supporting macOS if Apple releases Mac Pro with the promised specs. To recall, Oculus supported Apple back in the days of the Rift DK2 Development Kit but focuses on Windows as Rift compatible platform in 2015 (dropping Linux and macOS).
On the other hand, the current Mac Pro sports the following specs: 3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor, 16GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC memory, Dual AMD FirePro D500 and 256GB PCIe-based flash storage. The device's based model costs $2,999.
iMac 2017 Latest Updates
Major details about the next iMac suggest a crazy powerful display for 2017. The new iMac is said to be called "iMac Pro" because it will be fueled by Intel E3-1285 v6 processor, 16GB of ECC memory which is upgradable to 326GB of 64GB, 2TB SSD and AMD graphics for VR and Pro apps support, BGR reported.
Reports about the iMac Mini also under development based on the blog post of Pike Universums. However, the reported product is not going to be literally mini though it is expected to feature an 8K display.
