Apple's iMac Pro model number pegged as 'A1862' ahead of expected Dec. launch

A10X or A10 ?

Anyone know the price breakdown for the major components of this?  $5K is huge money, and critics will be all about the "Apple tax."  It would help to know that the processor costs $x, the video card costs $x, the 1TB SSD costs $x, etc.  Presumably Apple is earning a margin of near 30%, so I expect these components are surprisingly expensive (adding up to well over $3000).

randominternetperson said:

Anyone know the price breakdown for the major components of this?  $5K is huge money, and critics will be all about the "Apple tax."  It would help to know that the processor costs $x, the video card costs $x, the 1TB SSD costs $x, etc.  Presumably Apple is earning a margin of near 30%, so I expect these components are surprisingly expensive (adding up to well over $3000).

It is actually not in the case of iMac, because no one can price the Display. If you are just using any TN / E-IPS or even IPS Display price then it wouldn't be fair comparison.

The only 5K monitor you will find is actually the one LG partner with Apple. Dell said they would ship one long ago but nothing has happen. Many guess it was simply a problem of price and market fit. 

And when you factor in the all in one, metal casing, and Keyboard and mouse, it is actually fairly attractively priced.

The problem is, do you value the screen and Display? Do you value the high machines Aluminium casing? The speakers, the keyboard, etc.

The problem with iMac is not many wanted to pay the premium for the screen. That is llke not everyone are willing to spend 2K+ on a OLED TV.

I for one wanted the same two side cooling system for an high end CPU and GPU without going into server and workstation parts, and 2K 21" Screen will do me fine.

Unfortunately, Apple doesn't offer much choice for Desktop.

randominternetperson said:

Anyone know the price breakdown for the major components of this?  $5K is huge money, and critics will be all about the "Apple tax."  It would help to know that the processor costs $x, the video card costs $x, the 1TB SSD costs $x, etc.  Presumably Apple is earning a margin of near 30%, so I expect these components are surprisingly expensive (adding up to well over $3000).

Many have tried to build a similar PC and have failed to do a fair comparison. The graphics cards in them are brand new (I think the reason for the Dec availability) as well as the Xeon processors are also new. Those alone are quite expensive. Since people cannot get their hands on these new AMD Vega/Vega Pro graphics they're trying to compare a PC with dual 1080TI graphics cards and thats not really a fair comparison in the end. Same goes for the CPU...many are just comparing the highest end current Core i7 which again, isn't a fair comparison. Even then, they come to about $4500 if I remember correctly. Again, that doesn't count in the design costs, assembly, shipping, sales costs, support costs, etc.

Apple did one during the keynote with an HP Workstation and it was over $7,000. I think we'll have to wait a little bit when the parts become fully available for the public.

What many fail to factor in when calculating a cost is the R&D, engineering, making the software all work efficiently, the OS, and any apps included, assembly, shipping, retail, support costs, etc. These are all factored into the cost of any product, yet people just go on PC Part Picker and price out the parts and think thats a fair comparison when its not.

Anyone taking book on whether or not one of these appears in a consumers possession in 2017?