Earlier this week, Apple kicked off its annual WWDC event at San Jose California. The event, as usual began with a keynote in which Apple announces the company’s updates from its hardware and software offerings. Upon refreshing the entire Macbook and iMac lineup, the company has also unveiled the iMac Pro, which was assumed by many to be the replacement for the aging Mac Pro. But it turns out that the iMac Pro will not be replacing Apple’s trash can designed Mac Pro, and that it will launch a new Mac Pro in 2018 instead.
According to popular tech YouTube sensation Jonathan Morrison from TLD, Apple has confirmed that it will finally make a new Mac Pro next year. The iMac Pro, which is scheduled to go on sale in December, isn’t made to be a Mac Pro replacement. The 2018 Mac Pro is claimed to be user upgradable and “modular” when it releases next year, unlike the iMac Pro.
Regardless, the iMac Pro is high spec-ed and catered towards professional. It will feature up to an 18 core Xeon processor, up to 4TB of SSD storage, plus a brand new AMD Radeon Vega GPU with up to 16GB of VRAM. As much as it sounds like a Mac Pro in the body of an iMac, the iMac Pro will definitely not replace the 2013 Mac Pro.