Yeah I'm very confused too. Not impossible that this iMac doesn't get M1 Ultra because of physical constraints and thermals, but I agree with you, an iMac with better screen tech than the Display Studio and Pro Display XDR doesn't make sense
I can either have the ability to have up to four matching 5K displays @ 60K and a possibly faster computer that can be upgraded/replaced separately from the displays, but with a current technical limitation that means not being able to have 120Hz ProMotion, -or- I can have a single built-in display with XDR and 120Hz, and the ability to only add perhaps one or two more displays at 5K but at 60Hz, that don’t match. Seems like a decent trade off, depending on one’s needs. Maybe the iMac Pro will be offered with an M1 Pro and an M1 Max, just like the MacBook Pro, and the M1 Ultra is reserved for the larger / dedicated form factors, whether it be Mac Studio or upcoming smaller Mac Pro (which perhaps starts with a single Ultra at the base model and offers the ability to move up to two of them). I’d imagine that custom interconnect could also have a version that can connect 4 M1 Max chips for the high end of the tower form factor.
They have already released an Apple Silicon iMac last year. Too many people are thinking they also meant that will be the very last one ever, lol.
Yes technically it‘s possible, but that’s not really a caveat if it affects a total of nobody. For all intents and purposes you can’t notice it at all.
Man... Apple could literally RAKE in (more) avalanches of cash if they released a beautiful but affordable aluminum display to accompany their growing array of desktop products without displays. Given that LED panels are relatively "below dirt" cheap, it's amazing to me that Apple can't stick an adequate panel in a beautiful aluminum chassis and sell it for like, I dunno... $599 maybe? A price I consider "very expensive" for a display but within reason for someone wanting visual beauty and continuity for their computer who doesn't earn their living editing video or working at the highest levels of graphic design (or just filthy rich).
That appears to be correct. Which is why I think the mini-LED 5K panel is for an iMac Pro. It would be internally connected and thus not over Thunderbolt/USB-C. Ross Young has sources in the display panel factories, not final assembly, hence only being able to assume (incorrectly) which final product these panels are destined for.
Even if it's priced higher, it's going to piss people off. I would bet that the vast majority of people who bought the new display were hoping for the things that are being rumored here. I'd be annoyed as all hell if I bought this display and in 3 months they released what I really wanted.
