Once it’s powered up the 5k screen is immediately impressive. Like the shell of the iMac Pro itself, the keyboard, mouse and trackpad are all finished in the darkly sophisticated “space grey” and for any sort of visual work this helps with avoiding visual pollution with light reflected from lighter colours. I tend to use the trackpad with my left hand for big movements and the mouse with my right hand for little ones and I find that this helps manage fatigue on long days. The demo unit arrived with both the mouse and the trackpad and I find this to be a very effective combination for video work. In the case of the iMac Pro, this means plugging in the power cord and turning on the keyboard and mouse/trackpad. The iMac design also means that the unit is up and running very quickly. The computer and screen with a single, small desktop footprint is a big advantage, especially if you’re adding things like control surfaces which take up their own desk space. To start with this is significant because there’s a variety of tasks in the film making process that benefit enormously from this form factor. In fact what Apple have done is build an entirely new computer into the form factor of the existing 27” iMac. Much like Henry Ford’s quote that if he’d asked people what they wanted, he would have designed a faster horse, if you’d asked me, I would have said we need a faster iMac and I’m sure I’m not the only one who imagined that this is basically what the iMac Pro was.
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