You'll need to wait until Thunderbolt 3. And even then there's no mention of the correct DisplayPort format being included in the spec.
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Apple Expected to Launch New iMacs With Improved Processors and Display Quality This Quarter
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You'll need to wait until Thunderbolt 3. And even then there's no mention of the correct DisplayPort format being included in the spec.
Still very happy with my iMac 5K. An extra 5K Cinema Display would be nice tough..
I imagine for Apple it's mainly about how much heat actual GPUs put off. The hardware design would have to accommodate this extra heat which compromises the design of their hardware. Currently, Apple's hardware design is running on crazy juice in regards to thickness. They think that even desktop computers need to be as thin as possible. Where other computers actually use their thickness to allow for air circulation and heat sinks. Currently, even when they stick a half-way decent GPU into the computer, they have to throttle the clock on them so that Apple's sub-par chassis thermodynamics can handle the heat. (I'm looking at your iMac 27" retina and new Mac Pro)
Please explain the difference between OpenGL performance and 3D hardware performance.
Fingers crossed for a new screen vendor.
I have a late 2013 iMac (pre retina) and was on my third machine in the first 6 weeks due to awful screen quality!
I have a late 2013 iMac (pre retina) and was on my third machine in the first 6 weeks due to awful screen quality!
Yah, but it has become boring. A "perfect" design, but lacking in "fun". Remember the first "Flat-Panel" iMac? Now that was iconic!
They better not! Nvidia is crap, overpriced, overhyped, garbage. They crap out and the driver support is down right awful! I do agree with you on the mobile GPU issue though, a desktop GPU should be used.
AMD drivers have tended to give better frames per second/rendering performance at the expense of more heat and power consumption of the hardware itself. NVidia's GPUs tend to run cooler, but the performance wasn't always there. However, with Nvidia breaking free of Apple's tyrant handle on GPU drivers they've been releasing web drivers that allow for some decent performance boosts.
Logic states that you should just buy a dedicated Windows gaming machine.
Yeah! give us *cough* hackintosh *cough* users the AMD kexts for the Hawaii GPU's! Please!!!
Don't they come with Fusion drives, which offers the storage capacity of traditional spinning hard drives with the performance of SSD in one package?
Yup, you can blame that on Mr. Thin.
Form over function, people, form over function.
Would love to see a new form factor for the iMac. I'm currently running a late-2013 model so replacing it, which I usually do every other year, would mean it would look exactly the same.
I know curved screens are a fluke for TVs, but having a 27", maybe even go for 30" then, iMac retina screen that's curved would be darn tasty.
I know curved screens are a fluke for TVs, but having a 27", maybe even go for 30" then, iMac retina screen that's curved would be darn tasty.
I think that the iMac's display is perfect. Colors look amazing, but maybe I got lucky with my unit.
We'll never get better hardware configurations with that attitude. There are reasons why we need to be holding Apple's feet to the fire to convince them that at least giving a decent GPU option is desirable. Their one-size-fits-all approach to their computing solutions is not desirable for many users. If we never pushed Apple, we would have never been given the size options on iPhone (and that was a huge success).
But fusion still means that the weakest link in an iMac is the old fashioned spinning drive. They can and do fail.
And since Apple insists on maximum difficulty in changing a hard drive out I insist on something more reliable, like an ssd.
If they didn't weld, glue, or booby-trap the drive into the computer I might see things a bit differently.
the imac IS a desktopified laptop. unless apple makes an imac thats twice as thick, it will stay a laptop.
You mean pivoting your iMac 90 degrees and marveling at how thin it is, isn't the first thing you do every morning?
Why, it's the only thing that really matters.
Well isn't that the most important thing?
Forget about desktop specs and accessible hard drives, the pinnacle in desktop computer design is how thin it looks from the side.
Sheesh, everybody knows that...
Do you think Apple dare NOT use Skylake?
they would look out of date the instant they were launched, when the whole PC world, then would be selling SkyLake systems.
Would Apple want to be seen with "the old tech" for the entire year ahead?
When just waiting weeks, would make them look bang up to date.
For photo editing a wider gamut would be most useful! 100% AdobeRGB, for instance
Gosh I was so close to buying a RiMac today. Will they update the RiMac as well, or just the non-RiMacs?