There's a decent website called notebook check that rates graphics cards, they liked it. It should be fine for gaming as long as you don't want native 5k res or all the bells and whistles turned on! In any event, gaming on a Mac (unless you set it up with Windows) can be hit or miss
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Apple Launches New 4K & 5K iMacs, Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2
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There's a decent website called notebook check that rates graphics cards, they liked it. It should be fine for gaming as long as you don't want native 5k res or all the bells and whistles turned on! In any event, gaming on a Mac (unless you set it up with Windows) can be hit or miss
What's the difference between the two, I wonder.
I was quite looking forward to the 21" Retina iMac, but right now feel a bit disappointed that the GPU might actually be and even feel slower than my first-gen 2012 rMBP.
Also, as has been commented here many times, Apple has become ever more greedy in the last few years; not having an SSD standard in a brand-new late 2015 iMac is simply a cynic play to get more $$$ out of our pockets, as is the redesigned 1TB Fusion drive.
People who want a big screen, don't need portability and don't want to go looking for the family laptop in their kid's room?
Ah, got that bit. (Still don’t believe it mind you). They don’t need to sell lots of Apple branded batteries as they obviously have plenty of Apple branded Kool Aid to replace it.
I'd be excited to see a new Skylake Macbook Pro soon (or sooner rather than later)... Will they also depend on Iris Pro?
Just as I predicted, not a single 21.5 inch iMac has a dedicated GPU anymore. Apple, I am beyond disappointed. Intel graphics are ****.
There is NO REASON they couldn't do both. They'd probably have to back off a little on the speed charging, but I HATE built in li-ION batteries. I've had terrible luck with my iphones, replacing the battery at the 18 month mark consistently because I'm below 75% of the already anemic battery life. You can have a built in charger AND make the batteries user-replaceable. I think cordless mice are terrible anyway, and cordless keyboard have very little benefit. I guess this peripheral upgrade is not for me.
I agree. It's inexcusable to use DDR3 when DDR4 has been out for a few months already.
That location of the lightning port. Apple, do we really have to keep the mouse like this to charge it?!
I think you forgot "anything but" in there.
Not true. Force touch on the Macbook Pro line has many levels of sensitivity. I would assume that these trackpads use the same tech.
Wait for another "silent launch" next year when the Updated Skylake Mac Pro comes out, sure with ECC-DDR4 and USB-C 5K Display (with expensive USB-C - Display Port adapter available), ahh no more 4 Core Mac Pro (blame intel for this).
This time only if you take i7 6700K 4GHz verision. All i5 versions are 65W new desktop chips that will keep the system cooler. So, the best pair if you don't want to have heat issues are 3.3GHz i5 with M395X.This makes me a bit sad. The M295X throttles in the iMac within a few seconds of use, I assume the same will happen with the new ones if it's the same.
And I've held off a whole year waiting for this after returning my last 5K iMac...
Yeash...
Retina model comes with a 5400 rpm HDD rather than a Fusion Drive or all SSD - it's unimaginable for this class of product.
I'm a little weirded out by this all-Broadwell line up, but as a friend reminded me, the available Skylake chips don't have Iris Pro and that's probably why we're getting Broadwell instead.
Price hikes everywhere.. ok, not so surprising, even if I'm not in love with that either.
The updated 5k iMacs make sense, updated GPUs = always good.
One last weird choice, the new BT keyboard is rechargeable (awesome) but uses a Lightening port - can't Apple make up its mind whether it wants to go with Lightening everywhere or USB-C everywhere yet?
Retina model comes with a 5400 rpm HDD rather than a Fusion Drive or all SSD - it's unimaginable for this class of product.
I'm a little weirded out by this all-Broadwell line up, but as a friend reminded me, the available Skylake chips don't have Iris Pro and that's probably why we're getting Broadwell instead.
Price hikes everywhere.. ok, not so surprising, even if I'm not in love with that either.
The updated 5k iMacs make sense, updated GPUs = always good.
One last weird choice, the new BT keyboard is rechargeable (awesome) but uses a Lightening port - can't Apple make up its mind whether it wants to go with Lightening everywhere or USB-C everywhere yet?
They must really want a Mac then, because to those people I'd say buy a PC.
I maintain that the ridiculous form-factor of this iMac is over the top at gimping its performance, considering it's a desktop computer.
Families with kids buy desktop computers. It's MUCH better to watch what your kids are doing when you have a desktop computer set up in the living room where the rest of the family is.
Letting an 8-14 year old alone in their room with a laptop just begs for them to be looking at sites they shouldn't.
Just tried to purchase one of these new iMacs with 5K and an i7 4Ghz processor. Apple sales and tech support say the current processor for this lineup, is still Haswell.
Quoted (Gabriall):
PROCESSOR
Processor
Intel Core i5 (4690) or Core i7 (4790K) ("Haswell")
Processor Speed
3.5 GHz (Core i5) or 4.0 GHz (Core i7)
Architecture
64-bit
Number of Cores
4
Quoted (Gabriall):
PROCESSOR
Processor
Intel Core i5 (4690) or Core i7 (4790K) ("Haswell")
Processor Speed
3.5 GHz (Core i5) or 4.0 GHz (Core i7)
Architecture
64-bit
Number of Cores
4
Did Apple say the batteries are non-replaceable? Every other Apple device with lithium-ion batteries has replaceable batteries. I'm sure the same is true of these.
LOL, it’s Intels fault?
IIRC, Timmy was suggesting that the new iPhones/iPads have desktop class processors. If this is true they only have themselves to blame……..
Those are the specs of the previous-generation 5K iMacs with Haswell processors. Whoever you chatted with is not aware of the new update
Has anyone noticed that the 1TB Fusion Drive now only includes 24GB of SSD. This means that Apple is charging $200 for 24GB of flash!!! (it was bad enough when they were charging this for 128GB) This is a good demonstration of Tim Cook's bean counting mentality!
