As a professional, the new iMac Pro easily pays for itself to the point it is a FREE Mac plus vacation time. This is equivalent to gaining a YEAR of your income if you use that time to make even more money. If you save 2000 hours using the new iMac Pro versus your Mac Pro, then you have just gained an entire year of vacation time if you buy and use the new iMac Pro versus your old Mac Pro. The author notes 'a much improved editing experience that can save a pro hundreds or thousands of hours in the life of the machine. Interesting is how much faster Final Cut Pro is than Adobe Premiere. Radeon Pro Vega 64 GPU with 16 GB HBM2 VRAM. 10 core, 3.0GHz Intel Xeon W CPU with 4.5GHz turbo boost. The minimum Video Professional iMac Pro configuration is: No Video Professional would choose this model, much less for comparison with their current machine. The problem I have with this comparison is that the $5000 iMac Pro is the Base Model.