Exactly. My 2013 15" MacBook Pro can't drive 5K, but it can run a 4K display. I wanted a 23/24" 4K Thunderbolt display for 1080p HiDPI mode so bad. More than anything Apple announced today.
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Apple Announces 27-Inch iMac With Retina 5K Display Starting at $2500
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Exactly. My 2013 15" MacBook Pro can't drive 5K, but it can run a 4K display. I wanted a 23/24" 4K Thunderbolt display for 1080p HiDPI mode so bad. More than anything Apple announced today.
5k? Stop pushing specs and actually start innovating, Apple!
I think powering 5k screen while still maintaining high performance is a very good engineering, I am pretty sure there's innovation somewhat inside that we don't know about.
Anyway I still want it.
Yeah, but people don't want bits of a laptop in a small box. They want a somewhat bigger box with a proper removable graphics card and a degree of upgradability. Something with high-end mainstream desktop components to sit below the workstation-class Mac Pro.
Using the rMBP as a guide, Apple probably will introduce a smaller retina iMac at a later point. And doubling the 21.5" iMac resolution (1920 x 1080) gives 3840 x 2160 or 4K/UHD. While a pixel-doubled 4K monitor also makes sense as a 23 or 24" display, 21.5 or 22" is also reasonable. And no matter the physical size, 4K should allow Target Display mode via one TB2 cable, ie, all Mac except the Macbook Air (and the old 13" MBP) should be able to drive it as a display. Though, using an iMac as an external display probably only makes sense for iMacs that are old enough that their resale value doesn't surpass the cost of a standalone display.
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Maybe people want it but for all we know, only about 1% of all computer buyers ever upgraded the graphic card later.
I think we might still need two TB 3 ports, on separate controllers, to drive a 5k display at 60hz. It looks like TB 3 will still have DP 1.2, not DP 1.3. Presumably they will incorporate MST this time, so a single TB 3 port will finally be able to power a 4k display at 60hz, but I'm not sure this will be enough for 5k at 60hz.
That point of view is quantifying the display as a device simply to view content. But being a computer display it is much more than that. Of course there's no 5k content out there to be streamed from any source. The added resolution is tremendously beneficial to productivity. Who cares about games or TV/movies? They're not the target of a 5k display.
Do you mean the very same, imaginary one that noone has ever said would be released, ever?
#entitledgeneration
A pull quote from that link:
"the UltraSharp 27 Ultra HD 5K is a pair of smaller displays tiled together. If so, it may require a pair of DisplayPort 1.2 connectors using Multi-Stream Transport (MST) technology. Whether that turns out to be the case or not, the monitor doesn't come cheap: It's expected to run around $2,500 when it supposedly becomes available in December."
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I just bought a 13' MBA with all upgrades and was hoping for a new Thunderbolt Display for the desk at home. Anyhow the 5k iMac looks nice.
Any ideas one can use it as display from the MBA at all?
Any ideas one can use it as display from the MBA at all?
Economics of Scale.
How else do you explain 5k displays hitting the market before 4k even becomes mainstream?
I'm using a modified Power Mac G5 case for my build so it too oozes Apple quality.
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Yeah, it's all speculation, but the leaked slide points to 40Gbps bandwidth for Thunderbolt 3.0, even with DP 1.2, which would most likely be enough to drive one 5k display at 60.
The CPU seems fine for the job, but when the r9 290x desktop GPU has trouble handling a 4k display a mobile variant is definitely not the answer to a 5k display. The smart choice would've been using the recently announced gtx 970 for base, and 980 for the higher tier.
5K is awesome and to be fair $2500 is actually quite cheap for what you get, especially from Apple.
But the spec beyond the display, like the CPU/graphic won't last. Simple as that.
Like others sais, might as well sell a 5K TBD instead an all in one with great display and "crappy" computer inside.
But the spec beyond the display, like the CPU/graphic won't last. Simple as that.
Like others sais, might as well sell a 5K TBD instead an all in one with great display and "crappy" computer inside.
I believe he wasn't kidding, maybe you did?
Even fastest desktop gpu is barely able to drive 4K gaming and video editing. Now you say fastest mobile graphic is competent to drive 5K?
What do you do with that computer? Open itunes, making memes, watching 1080p movies, maybe a bit of pron?
You don't need 5K display to do those things, so yeah maybe fastest mobile graphic will be sufficient in that case.
I think it's unfair to judge that based on the entry level. I myself want to get this.
- 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
- 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4x8GB
- 1TB Flash Storage
- AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5
Ditto. I'm away from home at a Starbucks in a different town. Just saw the Apple store. Ordered exactly as above, delivery 3-5 days.
Ditto. I'm away from home at a Starbucks in a different town. Just saw the Apple store. Ordered exactly as above, delivery 3-5 days.
Ordered the above with the 3TB Fusion drive. Going to be sweet
Mine's also maxed-out and still going strong.
But you know that time will come when our iMacs will not be able to transcend the technological rubicon, and the upgrade will be necessary.
How long will that be? For me, I'm think another 2-3 years at the most which is 8-9 years of intensive, productive use of my iMac. That is an impressive shelf life in this day and age of the year-to-year turn over product cycle.
5k isn't a standard, never will be. It's just what happens when double the pixels of a 27" iMac. And is great marketing because no one will manufacture 5k because it's not standard, and apple will be the only one marketing a 5k. The next standard is 8k.
Feel free to move along. Have you read any of the early reviews? LOL5k? Stop pushing specs and actually start innovating, Apple!
Here is one of the many early reviews of the new iMac. "TechCrunch says that the iMac's display shows "full resolution photos with zoomed crops that look better than most originals coming out of the camera" and credits Apple for fitting such a panel into the same tapered design. The screen is noted as being a "huge step up" from the one found on the Retina MacBook Pro. Overall, the new 27-inch iMac is described to be "the future of desktop computing" and is even said to be right up there with Apple's Mac Pro in terms of choices for power users."
....and do tell what innovation would you like to see?
Agreed. I also figure OS updates will leave us behind in the next year or two, leaving another year or two before real obsolescence. That gives me 10 years and I'm happy with that. Although this model's a tempter. But so was quad-core when it came out and I'm still hanging on.
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He'd like the computer to be 150cm, 55kg, blonde and blue and wildly better than his current inflatable date.
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Dell seems to think otherwise.
Wow, I must the *the* lucky one who is still using a 2011 i7 iMac, unfried
And my sister is still using my old core 2 duo.