hotshoe

I purchased a high-spec i7 iMac a few months prior to iMac Pros launching (Oct 2017). I threw heavy workloads at it ran hot constantly, and it failed after two weeks (I suspect heat related). I spent the extra $1k to purchase an iMac pro once available and it has served me flawlessly for the past year. Same workloads, and can barely hear the fan running (unlike the i7, which was very loud). At the end of the day, you get what you pay for. Holistic perf assessment is not as simple as throwing-up a Geekbench score.