The machine can be further configured with an 18-core Xeon processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation.
The new Apple MacBook refreshed models are already available through the company's store, with retail availability slated for June 7. There are four Thunderbolt 3 ports and 10GB Ethernet.
"With major updates to iMac, and a refresh of our MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, the Mac is stronger than ever", said John Ternus, Apple's vice president of Hardware Engineering.
The 15 inch version includes up to 3.1 GHz Core i7 with Turbo Boost up to 4.1 GHz and also comes with improved graphics. Finally, the top end iMac Retina 5K 27 inch packs up to 8GB of Radeon 570, 575 and 580. Pricing starts at $1,100 for the 21.5-inch model and $1,800 for the 27-inch 5K iMacs (same as before).
Today Apple announced updated MacBook Pro laptops. The Apple MacBook Air comes with a 1.8 GHz processor.
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Unsurprisingly, Apple replaced the previous models' Thunderbolt 2 ports with a pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports that support DisplayPort for external screens, Thunderbolt at up to 40 Gbps, USB 3.1 Gen 2 at up to 10 Gbps, and various other protocols via adapters (see "Explaining Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, and Everything In Between", 3 November 2016).
The 13-inch MacBook Pro is now powered by the 3.5 GHz Core i7 Kaby Lake processors with Turbo Boost up to 4.0 GHz, While the 15-inch MacBook Pro is powered by the 3.1 GHz Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.1 GHz. The iMac Pro will start shipping this December starting at $4,999. This new model is called the iMac Pro and will be available later this year.
If that doesn't make you drool, you can stop reading this bit now, but the long and short of it is that the iMac Pro looks set to be an extremely quick machine, and work great for demanding graphics, video, yes VR/AR, and that somewhat scary application, machine learning.
According to Apple, the new twin-blower thermal redesign offers an 80 percent boost in thermal capacity compared with previous-generation iMac models. Featuring a new next-generation compute core and up to 16GB of on-package high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), iMac Pro with the Vega GPU delivers up to an unbelievable 11 Teraflops of single-precision compute power for real-time 3D rendering and immersive, high frame rate VR. So while Apple is offering its most powerful Mac ever, it is also asking buyers to make their most expensive gamble ever.
That has always been true for the MacBooks naturally as well as the Mac Pro.
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