This strikes me as a bit of a contradiction. I get why one might chose a more expensive Xeon processor and I suppose I can sorta understand needing a display for a server. But surely the iMac, so far at least, is all those things where desktops differ from servers (and for that matter Workstations).
It's almost as if Apple figures that seeing as they already have the mechanical design for iMacs down pat, they might as well wedge a Xeon in one. That doesn't really seem like Apple's usual MO to me.
I suppose a more accurate description might be a "workstation grade iMac".
If they can ship it by the end of 2017, that would still be well ahead of whatever makeover the Mac Pro will be getting, so it could be a stop-gap. And there are quite a few mobile-workstation laptops on the market now shipping with Xeons (the iMac is sort of like an immobile laptop).
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 16.4 ms ] threadIt's almost as if Apple figures that seeing as they already have the mechanical design for iMacs down pat, they might as well wedge a Xeon in one. That doesn't really seem like Apple's usual MO to me.
I suppose a more accurate description might be a "workstation grade iMac".