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Apple May Launch 27-Inch Retina iMac With AMD Graphics as Soon as Next Month
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To be honest - this is great (if true) & I'm definitely buying top-end retina iMac, but I will (try to) hold out for 2nd generation. The headaches with 1st gen retina MBP were annoying and I simply don't trust 
anymore ("it just works" no more).
anymore ("it just works" no more).It won't be. The wizard of industrial design says you don't need them to be the same height. You also don't need to be able to upgrade your computer-just buy a new one.
I hope ASAP ALL
1) retina-only
2) SSD-only.
It's time to let the past go. Apple should lead this.
PS - also I want Touch ID on Macs, or at least some iPhone proximity solution.
Why? Some people don't want to pay a premium for retina, others don't want to pay a premium for SSD and a third group might not want to pay less and not have either.
What I think you are complaining more about is Apple's pricing policy where they overcharge for some of those features since there is a lower "entry level" product.
So much power required to push that many pixels, hope they put a beastly card in it, instead of the sickly ones they like to use....
Would there be AAAAAAAAAANY chance of upgrading the displays in my 2012 or 2013 27" iMacs to one of these 5k displays?
When has Apple ever offered a display upgrade on an iMac? You'll want the rest of the machine upgraded anyway. I expect to ride out another year or so on my 2011 model before demoting it.
You haven't heard of Retina? It's been around for a few years now, I think you should know better.
iMacs get a few mentions in the marketing for game play, but they are not really marketed as a gaming computer anyway.
Yeah, I have to wonder if certain people are trolling.
Some of the questions, retina MBP has been out for a year and a half, retina iPhones introduced 2010, you'd think people would grasp some basic ideas on how this stuff works in the mean time.
Every generation of product is a first generation of something new, Apple doesn't reuse very many parts between generations. Just wait a few months, if anything.
I think that's a decent price. It's still a bleeding-edge feature. Unless Apple gets a killer deal, I expect this to be a top-end option.
Apple has not really targeted enterprise, and they don't target people that live paycheck-to-paycheck.
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The new Retina iMac will be an essential upgrade for everyone really. I'm expecting that display will look completely gorgeous and incredible, and you'll never want to look at another non-retina display again.
i7 4790K 4Ghz Option YES!!!!!
That bit of the article is quite misleading. The 4790K is a socket LGA1150 processor with an unlocked multiplier, designed for overclocking enthusiasts (it's the CPU I've got in my PC and I run it at 4.6GHz). Apple has never before used K-series (unlocked multiplier) chips before, since BIOS modification could potentially allow users to overclock the CPU and do damage to their machine.
It seems more likely that they may go for the normal 3.6GHz 4790 as a top option.
http://ark.intel.com/products/80806/Intel-Core-i7-4790-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_00-GHz
Sorry if you're not even interested in this stuff. You were the first person to mention it, so I thought I'd use your post for my reply.
Put it in the "doesn't make sense" column. If a new iMac had that high a quality display, would it not be prohibitively expensive? I can see Apple updating their Thunderbolt display...make it actually LINE UP with the current iMac so I can place if side-by-side...and then it also works solo with Mac Mini or Pro.
But, for what this is worth, I called Apple last week about the current display - contemplated buying one of the current ones, but the specs are pretty dated - USB2, original Thunderbolt...and doesn't line up screens with our 2013 27" iMac. The guy I spoke to said, pretty much, that he thought Apple was not going to be terribly involved in the display market - he pointed out that the only 4K display in the Apple Store isn't an Apple product ...he felt that Apple was going to let it go the way of third party options. Which is fine.
Anyway...a retina 27" iMac?? I'm guessing either a) no way or b) crazy expensive.
My $0.02
But, for what this is worth, I called Apple last week about the current display - contemplated buying one of the current ones, but the specs are pretty dated - USB2, original Thunderbolt...and doesn't line up screens with our 2013 27" iMac. The guy I spoke to said, pretty much, that he thought Apple was not going to be terribly involved in the display market - he pointed out that the only 4K display in the Apple Store isn't an Apple product ...he felt that Apple was going to let it go the way of third party options. Which is fine.
Anyway...a retina 27" iMac?? I'm guessing either a) no way or b) crazy expensive.
My $0.02
Is there any AMD GPU that can handle single display resolution at 5K?
Ill answer: no. ONLY the Maxwell v 2.0 can support this resolution. Even GM107 in GTX850/860M cannot.
AMD Fiji, that can handle that resolution will come in few months, which means - next year.
While a non-retina display will still be usable for everyday applications for the foreseeable future, I think we'll slowly see retina level display flood the market in the next 3-5 years.
Visio just announced a 50" 4K television for $1000 last week. This will accelerate to drive prices down from other manufacturers. Although I suspect any Apple display will still command a premium price.
No way they would choose power hungry and inefficient AMD cards over nVidia maxwell. Surely not?
I'm confused by this thread....
In what alternate reality is AMD graphics the bane of existence?
Apple has transitioned back and forth between AMD and NVIDIA cards for years depending on which card best suited the product they were making that year.
How is possible that anyone outside of the few Apple engineers working on this product could have any idea what card will work best in the new product...?
Oh wait. That's right. This is the internet. My apologies. Carry on.
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I too am anxiously waiting the refreshed Mac mini. I could buy a few of them for what this 27" beast is bound to debut at.
In what alternate reality is AMD graphics the bane of existence?
Apple has transitioned back and forth between AMD and NVIDIA cards for years depending on which card best suited the product they were making that year.
How is possible that anyone outside of the few Apple engineers working on this product could have any idea what card will work best in the new product...?
Oh wait. That's right. This is the internet. My apologies. Carry on.
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I too am anxiously waiting the refreshed Mac mini. I could buy a few of them for what this 27" beast is bound to debut at.
It's quite likely that the default settings for this iMac would keep everything the same physical size as it is on the current 27" iMac...
... but if the default was different, are you seriously put out by how much effort it would take to change a setting?
I honestly don't see the need for retina display on the iMac, it's a consumer product and 4-5k displays are still a huge premium - couple that with the weaker mobile GPUs used in the iMac and you even have potential lag issues when doing anything other than browsing Facebook.
We do really need a 4-5k pro-grade Thunderbolt display for the Mac Pro, though - it's amazing Apple still hasn't produced one.
We do really need a 4-5k pro-grade Thunderbolt display for the Mac Pro, though - it's amazing Apple still hasn't produced one.
Have you seen a macbook pro retina? Things aren't smaller, even through the res is 2x what is was... Your missing the point here..
you definitely aren't talking about the late 2013 27" imac model. I have one. I rendered a 3d movie last week. 8 cores were rendering at 100% workload for a few hours and my iMac was certainly not "hot" It was still comfortably cool.
Also when I play games the iMac is not heating up.
On the other hand, my older Apple laptops are getting very (and I mean extremely) hot when doing stuff like this, or even browsing. When using the laptops on my lap, I almost burn myself (so I know the difference).
I'm confused by this thread....
In what alternate reality is AMD graphics the bane of existence?
Apple has transitioned back and forth between AMD and NVIDIA cards for years depending on which card best suited the product they were making that year.
How is possible that anyone outside of the few Apple engineers working on this product could have any idea what card will work best in the new product...?
Oh wait. That's right. This is the internet. My apologies. Carry on.
I honestly don't get the hate over AMD cards. It'd be one thing if they announced going to AMD CPUs(And even then, anything below a i7-4770K has an AMD equivalent in performance)
Also, AMD is the only combined competition for nVidia/Intel.
Yes please. Reeeeeeeeally glad I haven't hit Send on any of the 27"ers I've configured lately
My 2007 iMaceek is getting extremely long in the tooth, to put it mildly. Need something to replace it very soon. This would fit the bill nicely.
My 2007 iMac
eek is getting extremely long in the tooth, to put it mildly. Need something to replace it very soon. This would fit the bill nicely.
Thankfully (for me at least) Adobe Premiere / AE play well with AMD, so this certainly sounds promising.
Finally may be the right time to upgrade from my 2011 iMac i7
Finally may be the right time to upgrade from my 2011 iMac i7