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Apple Expected to Launch New iMacs With Improved Processors and Display Quality This Quarter
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I bought an iMac for playing games and I'm not having a bad time at all.
Hold on just a little bit longer. It looks like Apple has been waiting all this time for the DisplayPort 1.3 standard, combined with Skylake, (which will support Thunderbolt3), both of which are necessary for 5k. DisplayPort 1.3, which was finalized last Sept, by itself can only do 4k.
In the current retina iMac, Apple got around this limitation by ignoring the standards and fusing two DisplayPort 1.2 pipes internally with a custom timing controller (TCON), but this obviously wouldn't work for external displays. With Skylake now just around the corner, the time is right and Apple could release 5k TB monitors, and my guess is they will do so fairly soon, so you may get your wish before too long.
Damn, I need to get an iMac for my son soon for school but I really want to wait for new models. My pet peeve is the stupid 5400 HD. Why they don't make at least the Fusion drive standard. This is 2015!
I wonder when we will see a refresh. I am hoping for September at the earliest. I think I can wait but not much longer.
I wonder when we will see a refresh. I am hoping for September at the earliest. I think I can wait but not much longer.
Hope you are right. Time to replace my 10 year old ACDs for two 5k displays and of course get a new Mac Pro.
That would be sweet.
Erm. Not the Fury X...did you even follow its heat output? It's less than a 980TI I think.
iMacs and laptops are somewhat related though.
Maybe Apple shouldn't build the iMac out of laptop parts.
Seriously... why does the iMac have to be thin and use power-sipping laptop components?
But this doesn't make any sense... in phones and laptops(maybe in not pro models), but with desktop? they whole idea of the desktop is to be a powerhouse
Well damn, I just replaced my old 27" iMac from 2012 with a 5k. Still inside the return window. Didn't want to pass up double-dipping on the edu discount and getting those sweet Beats headphone that will eventually be sold on craigslist or eBay.
Heat was a major reason I didn't get the M295X in my iMac. 200 degrees F wasn't sitting well with me.
I'm glad to notice a change of wind here in the forum… a great number of people used to ridicule and attack the ones that criticized the flawed technological design of the RiMac. I see here a much much more open discussion here wrt the iMac and it's many design / technological drawbacks:
- Gorgeous screen, but not useable as an external screen (I know why, but that's just a sign of missing focus on engineering)
- spinning harddisks in 2015?
- focus on thinness, something I really don't see a problem on the 2010 iMac I type right now…
- using a hot M295X in a non-optimal case wrt cooling --> fans with higher rpms --> louder
There may be benefits if you give leadership to economists and designers, but I had hoped that Apple remains foremost a technological company (even though most revenue is not anymore done by the 'engineering' parts). Thus, I hoped technologists would take over leadership. I guess there are a number of excellent Apple hardware engineers despairing in the dungeons of 1 Infinite loop… hoping their pleads be heard by the mgmt. But the mgmt is busy figuring out which Apple Watch band should be given which price. And they are still undecided on the colours...
- Gorgeous screen, but not useable as an external screen (I know why, but that's just a sign of missing focus on engineering)
- spinning harddisks in 2015?
- focus on thinness, something I really don't see a problem on the 2010 iMac I type right now…
- using a hot M295X in a non-optimal case wrt cooling --> fans with higher rpms --> louder
There may be benefits if you give leadership to economists and designers, but I had hoped that Apple remains foremost a technological company (even though most revenue is not anymore done by the 'engineering' parts). Thus, I hoped technologists would take over leadership. I guess there are a number of excellent Apple hardware engineers despairing in the dungeons of 1 Infinite loop… hoping their pleads be heard by the mgmt. But the mgmt is busy figuring out which Apple Watch band should be given which price. And they are still undecided on the colours...
The Fury X has a 500W closed-loop water cooler attached to it.
It's a very hot and power-hungry chip, they just shipped it with adequate cooling this time around.
Don't expect them to run cool and quiet with the Mac Pro's thermal design.
Performance has always been a secondary concern for Apple.
With an iMac you don't even get 100% of sRGB, but hey, it's thin!For photo editing a wider gamut would be most useful! 100% AdobeRGB, for instance
When did they elevate it to number 2?
I always thought it was a distant third behind margins and looks.
They are finally keeping up with TVs by using phosphor LEDs for wider-than-OLED color gamut. Pointless though, as DCI P3 and Adobe RGB are useless. It's either sRGB or full Rec 2020.
I'll settle for Adobe RGB, since Apple can't deliver that, there's no point asking for more.
So you are a huge fan and completely befuddled by things that spin...midlife fan crisis