An Apple Silicon iMac Pro Launch Was Supposed To Happen After The M1 iMac’s Release, But Cost Concerns Prevented Its Inception

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The Apple Silicon transition is not yet completed, as the iMac Pro featuring the company’s M-series SoCs is yet to launch. Whenever it arrives, new information states that it was always slated to be unveiled shortly, but Apple’s cost concerns pushed its launch into limbo.

Almost everyone remembers that the Intel Xeon-powered iMac Pro started from an eye-watering $4,999 price, and that only meant that Apple was going to charge customers a similar pricing. To be fair, the new iMac Pro would sport better build quality and internals than the M1 iMac, possibly including a high-resolution 5K display, an M2 Pro or M2 Max, lots of I/O, and other goodies that would shoot up the total, so charging a premium would be justified.

Even with the current M1 iMac, excluding the creative software suite bundle, maxing out the ‘All in One’ gives you a grand price of $2,658, so the iMac Pro would offer substantially more. Now, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in his latest ‘Power On’ newsletter, he states that the iMac Pro was scheduled to launch after the iMac, but that did not happen.

“Fans of the iMac have waited more than 900 days since the last model debuted. This was never the plan. Apple had aimed to release a larger, pro-focused iMac soon after the 24-inch iMac launched. Under the original road map, you would have seen the M1 24-inch iMac, then an M2-based iMac Pro and, finally, a 24-inch iMac refresh.”

According to people familiar with its Apple’s plans, a launch was discarded due to cost concerns, so the company had to make other products, such as the Mac Studio and Studio Display, with the latter carrying a $1,599 and offering nothing more than a 5K panel, and some ports. You still need to hook up the monitor to a computing