[dkuntz2]

They bought hardware that doesn't even compare. There's a reason the iMac Pro went with the actual professional grade hardware, because that's their target. Using consumer grade and saying "look they're similar" is misleading and not a valid comparison.

Yes, the iMac Pro costs a lot of money. But if you buy the same components you're going to end up with a desktop that costs a similar amount of money, and doesn't officially run MacOS.

Of course not everyone needs the power of the iMac Pro, and most people lusting over it would probably be fine with the standard iMac. A better comparison would be with the standard iMac.

Configuring the 27" iMac with as similar specs as I can ends up being $3700. It's more expensive, the graphics card is nowhere near as good, and the CPU is a little faster, but only has 4 cores. CPU with similar speeds is -$200. It's still more expensive, but it comes much closer to the specs you chose to build the "iHac Pro" on, and uses a similar same grade of hardware.

You can also handwave away some of that price difference on the included keyboard and mouse, which your build doesn't include.

[esthor]

Hi, author here.

Thank you for the comments!

I was originally trying to go for benchmark or spec comparison (which unfortunately there isn't much out yet for many of the iMac Pro components) without having to pick the same parts. Clearly I've missed some core components, and features and performance along with those for many workstation use cases.

I will definitely take your points in to the re-write of this article. I think you, and many of the others here have shown me a lot of what I missed in clarifying and in comparing. I really appreciate your passion and criticism!

Also, as far as the iMac (non-pro) goes, since that came out I've thought that has been a steal on pricing, especially for that screen (bought a 5k one last year).

[megy]

This is ridiculous. You buy hardware that is clearly not as good, and call it a win? So your point is that you can but hardware not as powerful for less? Does anyone not know that.

At least compare like with like, and you will have to wait until you understand what the mac has to do that.

Why post an article so wrong? Why waste everyone's time? Just to be the first?

[james-skemp]

Harsh, but while reading this I thought something similar. Too many unknowns so it just struck me as too soon for this piece.

[fuzzywalrus]

How much of a pain was it to install OS X?