Apple Announces 27-Inch iMac With Retina 5K Display Starting at $2500

[nagromme]

Costs the same as a cheaply-made, lower-quality, creaky plastic 5k Dell display* with no speakers or camera... Oh, and you get a free computer with it!

* as I have learned first-hand

 

[nikko1423]

Friggin haters? 5K is what the price is for

Also, for all you GPU haters out there: the 290X is amazing! Everyone knows Apple won't shove the ABSOLUTE best gpu, so i was surprised. In a scaled, its rated about 6500! Granted, the 980 is about 9000, but still. Around 3000 is all thats needed for 30FPS games, etc.

Haters...

 

[Parasprite]

That was a reference by Phil to 3rd-party displays. They've announced no update to the Cinema Display.

Oh, nevermind then.

Come to think of it, that would have been pretty steep compared to the iMac...that should have been more obvious to me.

 

[Alphabetize]

I was honestly shocked with the pricing of the Retina iMac, I thought it was going to break $3,000.

 

[Takuro]

They dropped the price of the PCI-e based flash CTO options. It's now $800 for a 1TB flash drive versus $1000 previously.

 

[Sasparilla]

I'm blown away by the price of the 5k iMac....that is much lower than I thought they would do it for...wow.

Looks like they removed the TB display from their 'Mac'-place on the site.. not good..

Yes, the assumption that Apple is going to make displays in the future is not a foregone conclusion...

 

[chr1s60]

Great display with bleh everything else. Why?

 

[gotluck]

desktop gpu please apple, maybe one day

dont need/want a mac pro with a workstation card, don't want a mobile gpu in my desktop!

 

[neuropsychguy]

Only $2300 education pricing. This means with the i7 upgrade, it's $2524. Maybe I can pass off my "old" iMac (late 2013) to a colleague and get one of these.

If anyone is wondering, the graphics card should be able to play pretty much any new game at 1080p at ultra quality: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R9-M290X.108643.0.html

Yes, there are better mobile cards but the R9 M290X is no weakling.

 

[gugy]

Love the new display, just don't get why the TB wasn't update as well. Weird to say the least.

 

[Eweie]

Anyone saying that it's underpowered is a freaking teletubbie.

a 5k display in an industry where PCs in 4k isn't even standard yet, windows doesn't even handle scaling well and still with young crappy hardware at high cost.
way to kick their butt Apple.

 

[neuropsychguy]

desktop gpu please apple, maybe one day

dont need/want a mac pro with a workstation card, don't want a mobile gpu in my desktop!

Not going to happen. Build a Hackintosh.

 

[dxmac99]

mac mini

did mini ever had the quad core option? I see the $699 is with the dual core i5. And the option is a dual core i7 (for an extra $300). Not very cool.

 

[iMacmatician]

I was honestly shocked with the pricing of the Retina iMac, I thought it was going to break $3,000.

Yeah, I was expecting around the same amounts.

 

[H2SO4]

Its called the Mac Pro. lol. If your slinging cash like that for such a low spec computer might as well drop another 500 and get the pro.

….and then add hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars for a monitor?

 

[baryon]

WHERE IS THE TB DISPLAYS AT 5K????????????

To be fair you can buy the iMac and just use it as a display (in target display mode), and it will only cost you a tiny bit more than what Apple will probably price the 5K display at.

 

[echo44]

rename

They really need to rename this web site

"mac whiners " I never seen a more whining group of individuals that are on this forum.

If Apple came out with a new device that made you irresistible to the opposite sex, produced for you a never ending supply of cash and provided you with eternal health and happiness. Most of you would find something to complain about.

 

[i.mac]

great display with bleh everything else. Why?

cto

 

[ToroidalZeus]

I was honestly shocked with the pricing of the Retina iMac, I thought it was going to break $3,000.

It is over 3k if you want decent (aka good but last-gen) specs with the i7 and 16gb+ of ram.

 

[DeadSeaMac]

Must resist....My late 2008 24" iMac is still going strong, beautiful, and more than capable of running Yosemite.

So I am still very happy with my iMac

 

[Man9z0r]

Sweet display with crappy mobile graphics cards. I bet if you try to run anything intensive on that thing it is going to lag like crazy.

I hope they just make a separate display to put on a real machine.

 

[NMBob]

Even the Mac Mini got some love. No denying, these guys are pioneers in innovation and engineering.

Still maxes out with dual-core CPUs. That's too bad.

 

[petsounds]

Yes, the assumption that Apple is going to make displays in the future is not a foregone conclusion...

I've had that feeling too, but it doesn't make much sense to me. All they'd have to do is to stuff the iMac 5k display into a new shell. What do they expect Mac Pro users to use? Wouldn't Pixar and their ilk benefit from those nice new 5k displays? I certainly would.

 

[Macist]

iMacs always uses mobile gpu
someone has some performance gpu between these AMD and 780M ?

We still need the headless iMac. Only been asking for 15 years.

 

[quagmire]

The top end AMD GPU is ONLY 7% faster than the 780M. With it having to power a 5K display, I advise Mac gamers to stick with the regular iMac.

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...mpare=radeon-r9-m295x-4gb-vs-geforce-gtx-780m

Even if Apple couldn't get access to the 980M they should have waited.....

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/inde...e=geforce-gtx-980m-8gb-vs-radeon-r9-m295x-4gb