5K iMac: Already obsolete

[AppleFan360]

Well, now we have 8K to look forward to.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/10/embedded-displayport-8k-spec/

 

[maflynn]

Those are just specifications, not actual hardware being delivered.

Its only obsolete if the computer isn't handling what you're wanting it to do imo.

 

[aevan]

Well, now we have 8K to look forward to.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/10/embedded-displayport-8k-spec/

And the hardware to run 8K would probably require several Xeons and quad-SLI. I don't think we'll see 8K displays anytime soon. This is just the theoretical limit. And the first sentence in the article is just sensationalistic writing.

With that said, I can't wait for new technologies. We live in exciting times.

 

[Sciuriware]

As long as I can not make full profit of Retina in JAVA on my MacBook Pro
I couldn't care less about 8K, 16K, 32K a.s.o.

Until now the only advantage is 1920 pixels wide, making it a full blown
development machine .... although I need reading glasses 3.0 to work.
And 8K movies and even wallpapers are not to be found anywhere .....

;JOOP!

 

[theSeb]

Yup. Totally OBSOLETE! What was Apple thinking?

 

[roberthallin]

If something becomes obsolete whenever there's something with higher specs being worked on/planned, then every tech-product ever will always be and have always been obsolete.

 

[Sciuriware]

We will all be obsolete one day.
At least I am (retired).
Who cares about 640Kb these days? Oh, Bill Gates of course ....

;JOOP!

 

[robgendreau]

Dude it was obsolete when Microsoft unveiled the Hololens.

 

[redheeler]

Well, now we have 8K to look forward to.

Then four months after the 8K is finally released, we'll be asking what's the point of getting an 8K iMac when 16K is right around the corner 🙄

5K is plenty and will be for a long time to come, in fact I'd rather see them switch to OLED than increase the pixel density again.

 

[boast]

Whelp, brb while I pack mine back up

 

[jamesjingyi]

Nah mate 🙂 There are hardly any displays that support 8K, even 4K TVs are hard to find cheaply. The TV manufacturers will delay the 8K TVs anyway so that they can sell all the 4K TVs which they have put so much R&D work into.

The iMac 5K will be obsolete one day but I don't think just yet (since there is hardly any 4K content anyway!)