The TB Display is listed separately under Accessories and can still be added to a Mac purchase for $999 just as before.
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Apple Announces 27-Inch iMac With Retina 5K Display Starting at $2500
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The TB Display is listed separately under Accessories and can still be added to a Mac purchase for $999 just as before.
Nope. Nothing can display video on the iMac's screen but a Thunderbolt feed. Since neither PS4 or Wii have Thunderbolt, it's 100% impossible. There is no HDMI conversion into Thunderbolt.
Any guesses when Apple will obsolete current MP without getting too much rage from current MP users? 18 months after the launch? 16 months after buyers really got their product? 24 months? TB3 announced in WWDC 2015?
You can build a hackintosh, save money, probably get better specs, BUT (I've built 2 of these) you risk problems with every update ie. loss of iMessage, Facetime, no sound, no video, crash at the boot screen, etc. With Yosemite, and those in the Tonymac community we gotta wait till they give the okay to upgrade. I would definitely build another hackintosh in a heartbeat (it's fun) and if you know what you're doing or remember to always check with the tonymacx86 site then maintenance of these machines is not difficult. However, that said, what I wouldn't give for a Mac Pro spec'd out.
Thank you for your thoughts. I figured that was true. The SSD isn't negotiable, but the card might be, given I use it mostly for writing and photo work.
27-inch (diagonal) Retina display with IPS technology; 5120‑by‑2880 resolution with support for millions of colors
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Really impressed overall!
In the uk the base model is retailing for £1999, ie $3198!
Without the 980 will wait 6 months until 980 becomes avail and the insane, stratospheric uk-us price disparity has been attenuated
In the uk the base model is retailing for £1999, ie $3198!
Without the 980 will wait 6 months until 980 becomes avail and the insane, stratospheric uk-us price disparity has been attenuated
AMD graphics are bad enough to begin with.
Their mobile chips are awful.
Glassed Silver:mac
Umm, you're forgetting about OS X vs Windows, all-in-one aluminum enclosure, built in speakers and camera, bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, etc. Matching spec for spec does not tell the whole story. Your cheaper hexa-core computer will look something like this...yuck...
It would look the same as on the non-retina 27" iMac. We already have this with the rMBP. So it all boils down to what you mean as 'fuzzy'. Of course, the games can look much better when running the native resolution, but hardware simply can't cope with it. Personally, I see it like this I gain a lot by having the crisper text and images in my normal desktop workflows, but I don't lose anything by playing games at the 'old' resolution.
The non-native resolution thing and LCDs is an often misunderstood topic btw. Its true that a traditional LCD usually loos awful when run on a non-native resolution because the pixels have a fixed size and cannot scale properly to smaller resolutions. This does not apply to the 'retina' display anymore though, because pixels are so small that our eyes can't tell the difference. So a super-high-res screen running on a non-native resolution would look very similar to a native LCD screen of that resolution. That's how traditional CRT monitors used to operate they also have 'pixels', but those are much smaller than the non-retina LCD tech allows for.
Bottomline is: with the advance of the retina-class LCDs, the notion of 'pixel' loses its importance. What is relevant now is the tradeoff between the performance and blurriness of the image.
I do not think any third party Thunderbolt source will not work either. Bascialy has to be a thunderbolt mac
Kinda like this you mean.
If we are talking about serious machines:
https://i1.creativecow.net/u/69647/thenewmacs.jpg
I am just a little bothered about not naming a product the right way. I read everywhere product names that start with retina. Even now I see retina iPad mini 3. I am making a too big of a deal of it, i know. But I just think we should name it by its original name.
Yeah, your only concern as far as the GPU goes is that it's powerful enough to drive the desktop compositor at a consistent framerate at that high a resolution. So long as dragging a window or zooming in on a picture while you're editing it doesn't go all chunkity on you, you're good.
Good advice.
I have the maxed out iMac '13 with 780M, and would love a Retina.
But.... I figure the grfx need more "oompf", to justify an upgrade, even when games cannot make use of retina.
I expected the Retina iMac to be much more expensive and thought that I wouldn't buy it..
I just ordered it....Can't wait!!!
I just ordered it....Can't wait!!!
No. I was pleasantly surprised that my rMBP has a seemingly perfect display. No yellowing or IR.
Whoops, I looked into it more and I think I was confusing that with TN. There are so many acronyms to remember with displays! H-IPS, IPS, MVA, PVA, S-PVA, TN, TFT, CRT, LCD, LED, OLED, AMOLED Super AMOLED, then you have touch types like Capacitive and Resistive, then PPI, Retina, then you have materials like Gorilla Glass, Gorilla Glass 2, ion-bonded (or whatever the iPhone 6 has), then you have things like polarizing filters. It's ridiculous. I used to be really involved in that world several years ago when I was trying to find the perfect monitor. Spent a lot of time on [H]ard|Forum.
Good to know. I just remembered them focusing on the TFT part during the video. I wonder what the color gamut is? Having a 5K IPS display in a nicely equipped machine for $2499 is pretty impressive.
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Because they can, that's why.
One great feature and junk everywhere else.
Works every time.
They'll sell a ton of these.
