Newest Apple iMac and iMac Pro for Creative Cloud

[marcod32092633]

Hello everyone.

Apple just announced the latest desktop station: iMac and iMac Pro (from December).

May I ask you what are your opinions regarding them?

I need to replace my old iMac (2012) with a new one and I am now considering two options: top iMac or the "basic" iMac Pro (lucky the budget this time won't be an issue).

I am a creative cloud user and I work mostly for photo editing (Ps and Lr mostly), very few occasion some small video editing.

Do you think that the iMac Pro might be too oversized workstation for my needs?

[RoninEdits]

for photo editing the 4 core imac with perhaps the radeon rx 570 should be a good option as many PS/LR functions only use 2-4 cores. it would also handle some light video editing and could use proxies if needed. if you wanted a something better to handle 4k+ editing without proxies, then the imac pro would be the better option.

[marcod32092633]

Thank you for your opinion. Do you think that the iMac Pro would be a great tool for photo editing?

Let's wait until specific test will be made over the coming soon iMac Pro.

[RoninEdits]

marcod32092633  wrote

Thank you for your opinion. Do you think that the iMac Pro would be a great tool for photo editing?

like i pointed out, most functions in PS and LR only use 2-4 cpu cores. so going higher than 4 cores with the imac pro won't be of much help for photo editing. the imac pro could actually perform slightly worse if the clock speeds are lower, which they probably will be.

[marcod32092633]

Do we have already any test performed with iMac Pro for Lr and or PS ?

[Capt.FlushGarden]

Yeay I agree, the fewer cores and higher clock speeds will work better for Photoshop, I guess the ability to get a huge drive and more than 32gb RAM would be the only pro's of the imac pro? Man I wish the regular imac would be available in space gray