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  • Benchmarks for high-end iMac 5K show 75 percent speed gain over 2017 model

    killermike2178killermike2178
    Not to be *that* guy, but how do we know this score in question isn't that of a Hackintosh? I'm seeing several i9 9900K iMac 19,1 scores on Geekbench, and they have wildly fluctuating scores that are several hundred points off from each other on the single core tests and several thousand points off from each other on multi-core tests. I'm even seeing an iMac 19,1 score from a test that was taken back on March 3 with i5 3450.


    randominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • Editorial: Apple is making us wait for a new iMac for no good reason

    killermike2178killermike2178
    Apple has every reason to stagger the release of the next gen iMac. With AMD Navi GPUs and next gen Intel Xeon Ws with no release date officially in sight, they cannot have an iMac non-Pro get released before the next iMac Pro, especially if the new non-Pro outperforms the the base tier Pro. Perhaps this is why Apple is transitioning to Arm processors in filuture models, to avoid future staggered releases by not binding themselves to Intel/AMD's schedule.
    watto_cobra

  • 15-inch MacBook Pro Radeon Pro Vega 16 and Vega 20 GPU options now available

    killermike2178killermike2178
    entropys said:
    Is there any reason not to announce new imacs now?
    Don't you understand how staggered releases work? The Xeon Ws and GPUs in the iMac Pro need a refresh before they even talk about updating the standard iMacs to avoid the risk of cannibalizing sales of the lower spec iMac Pros (8/10-core, Vega 56, 1/2 TB, 32/64 GB RAM). Apple likes to have leverage over the consumers, and they lose that leverage if there's a $4500 iMac with an 8 core i9-9900K, Vega 56 or even a Vega 64 (8 GB), user-accessible SO-DIMM slots that can take up to 64 GB RAM, and 1 or 2 TB of NVMe SSD on the shelves at the same time that the absolute base-tier iMac Pro costs $5000, which doesn't even have (easily) user-accessible/upgradeable memory, ECC be damned. I don't even think we'll see a refresh of the iMac Pro until after the 2019 Mac Pro hits shelves next year. Maybe the Mac Pro will go back to a large tower design, and will use that 28-core Xeon W-3175X that was announced early last month, along with dual GPUs and up to 512 GB of ECC RAM.

    fastasleepwilliamlondon