Badly needing to regain momentum among the professional crowd, Apple announced hardware improvements across both the iMac and MacBook Pro production lines at its Worldwide Developer Briefing on Monday.

The biggest surprise was that Apple appear a new "space grayness" iMac Pro that tin be configured with upward to an eighteen-cadre Intel Xeon CPU, 128GB of RAM, and a 4TB SSD drive. Go along in mind that the base of operations model of this beast will feature an 8-cadre Xeon, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD and it will cost $4999. And so, the price of the fully configured version is going to be astronomical, probable in the $8K-$10K range, when information technology arrives at "the terminate of the year."

Notwithstanding, the WWDC keynote made no mention of the Mac Pro, which means the Mac desktop belfry is likely to be on the way to the dustheap–unless sales of the iMac Pro disappoint.

The problem with high-powered iMacs in the past has been overheating since they don't have traditional desktop fans. However, Apple tree tacitly acknowledged the event on stage at WWDC by taking time to explicate and visualize the fact that it has designed a new two-fan cooling system for the iMac Pro.

The $4999 iMac Pro will also include:

  • 5K Retina brandish
  • Radeon Vega graphics
  • Can also power 2 external displays
  • Thunderbolt iii
  • 10GB Ethernet
  • 4 traditional USB ports
  • 4 USB-C ports
  • SD bill of fare reader

The 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs become Intel's new seventh generation Core processor ("Kaby Lake") and graphics upgrades. Here are the configurations and prices:

  • iMac 21.5-inch: $1099
  • iMac 21.five-inch with 4K display: $1299
  • iMac 27-inch with 5K display: $1799

Kaby Lake is also coming to the MacBook Pro lineup, along with graphics and SSD upgrades:

  • MacBook Pro 13-inch: $1299 (a driblet from $1499)
  • MacBook Pro 13-inch with Affect Bar: $1799
  • MacBook Pro 15-inch with Bear upon Bar: $2399

The 12-inch MacBook too gets an upgrade to Kaby Lake (and remains at a base price of $1299). The MacBook Air gets an upgrade from a 1.half dozen GHz base processor to 1.8GHz (assumably not Kaby Lake).

In improver to not hearing anything almost the Mac Pro, nosotros also didn't hear anything most the Mac on the other end of the spectrum, the Mac Mini.

Other than the performance upgrades–which are likely to welcomed by professionals that remain invested in the Mac platform–there were few new innovations introduced or announced for the Mac at WWDC. No wireless broadband added to MacBook Pros, for example.

As impressive as the performance of iMac Pro looks, the price could get in impractical for many professionals and businesses. Having seen by iMacs overheat, professionals volition also continue to exist concerned about the cooling of the iMac Pro despite Apple'south WWDC assurances. In the terminate, a high-powered Mac tower would have probable cost less, been more than modular, and attracted a lot more enterprise buyers.