Yup, Apple’s iMac Pro is a processing monster

The all-new Apple iMac Pro, available in Space Gray and Space Gray.

Easily apple’s most striking computer, Apple iMacs, are on creative’s desktops around the world; this despite the fact that they’ve never been Apple’s most powerful computing platform.

Until now.

Apple’s eagerly-anticipated, stunning, iMac Pro goes on sale today. Starting at $4999 for an 8 –Core Intel Xeon W processor, an AMD Radeon Vega 56 with 8 GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD and 32 GB of memory, the familiar looking, yet fully-reimagined iMac Pro is already, according to Apple, beating the top-of-the-line Mac Pro by at least a 2-to-1 margin in benchmarks (and sometimes by a factor of 12). It is, as John Ternus, Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Engineering, told me, “Unquestionably the fastest Mac we’ve ever built.”

It’s a bold claim and you’d be forgiven if, after examining the 27-inch all-in-one computer, you doubted him. Aside from a larger air vents on the back of the display, the iMac Pro has the exact same dimensions — down to the millimeter — and weight as the previous iMac.

One can never have too many ports.

There are some small differences on the port side that casual observers might not notice, like an additional Thunderbolt 3 port (USB-C-style) and the…