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Apple Planning to Launch 4K 21.5-Inch iMac in Late October

I am guessing that Ming Chi Kuo's official title is now Reliable KGI Securities Analyst. ;)

If Apple is making this product 4K and the rumors about the IPhone 6S and 6S Plus having 4K video recording capability are also true, that leaves the rumor about Apple TV NOT having 4K capability (according to 9to5Mac) in a very awkward place.
 
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I hope Apple waits for Skylake before updating the 27" 5K RiMac. What's the point of Broadwell at this stage? I'd be willing to wait until this spring for a Skylake upgrade rather than be stuck on Broadwell for a year.
 
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duaneu said:
I'm a little suspicious they would have an event just for that. It makes yesterday's rumor about new iPads being announced next week more suspect if this one is true.
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Thats exactly what I was thinking, also this computer is way overpriced.
 
Hooray! This is news I've been waiting to hear for a long time! At last! I love the 27" retina iMac, it's gorgeous, but it's just too darned big for me -- the 21.5" iMac is a good size and I've enjoyed my 2012 one very much but am ready for something newer and faster, as I use the 21.5" for processing photos and such. And, yes, my aging eyes will GREATLY appreciate a retina screen on the iMac!
 
Just give me a price. Knowing Apple, I'll have to wait a couple of gens for the price to come down. I'll be sticking with standard rez for my next purchase.
 
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Here I was hoping for a 24", silly I know. But I find the 27" a bit too big and 21" a bit too small. I really don't know which one I'll buy, because unless they F up really big I'll be purchasing my first iMac this year.


I can't wait.
 
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Coming from someone with a still flying 2007 iMac, I'll replace that thing when it dies. But this is definitely interesting.

Perhaps I'll get one when the whole iMac line becomes retina, as I expect this one to be an expensive alternative at first.
 
duaneu said:
I'm a little suspicious they would have an event just for that. It makes yesterday's rumor about new iPads being announced next week more suspect if this one is true.
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Why do people honestly think that Apple will announce iPhones, iPads AND an Apple TV next week? October's event will most likely be iPads, new Macs and El Capitan.
 
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And, they couldn't do 4K on the new Apple TV (at least per the rumors).
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Apple TV 4 won't do 4K this year because the plan was to release it at WWDC and the A8 would have been the latest chip (making the comparisons to 4K capable devices like the rumored iPhone 6s moot). As for using an A9 chip, that would have increased costs and nearly all stock is going straight to iPhones which may break 100 million in calendar Q4 2015. Apple's internal projections for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus likely showed them that they would be too popular to divert any chips to the iPad mini 3 (turning it into a lackluster update) and the iPod Touch wasn't updated until this past summer.

Maybe in 2016 so it will support HDMI 2.0a w/ HDR, HDCP 2.2, and hardware HEVC along with the server capacity for selling/streaming 4K movies in the iTunes Store.
 
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Anyone else hoping for a fresh new form factor? I do, and I feel guilty about it. Also is it specifically an American societal phenomenon to feel guilty about vanity?
 
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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
Not doing 4K on the Apple TV is about keeping the price down as low as possible. There isn't much in the way of 4K content currently and few people have 4K TVs so there's little reason to support it, especially since it's an added expense that makes less likely to purchase it.

On the Mac you have plenty of apps that are Retina already. There's already a market there.
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The low-cost 1080p option is the ATV 3, which is why rumors point to them still selling it after the release of this new ATV.

As for the market, there's no market for ATV apps yet because there's no ATV App Store. Why not start having developers create 4K apps from the start rather than have them create 1080p versions that need to be upgraded within a year once 4K picks up even more steam?

When the Retina display was initially released, there wasn't a large amount of Retina-ready apps available, yet Apple made the forward-thinking decision to push the new display out and watch the market follow.
 
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The low-cost 1080p option is the ATV 3, which is why rumors point to them still selling it after the release of this new ATV.

As for the market, there's no market for ATV apps yet because there's no ATV App Store. Why not start having developers create 4K apps from the start rather than have them create 1080p versions that need to be upgraded within a year once 4K picks up even more steam?

When the Retina display was initially released, there wasn't a large amount of Retina-ready apps available, yet Apple made the forward-thinking decision to push the new display out and watch the market follow.
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Any developer worth their salt will be generating @2x assets. If they don't, well knowing that 4K TVs are a thing, the head of that company's design department should get a thrashing.
 
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oh ya, a 4K Apple tv.... expect to pay more than $149....

4K itself seems good those u want it, but i fail to justify price what matters.

I hate Apple's doubling of pixels. This is the only reason why they can afford to do higher resolutions and still stay sharp...

i would think on a 4K desktop icons are still smaller but no way as small as Windows icons are..

That to me, is true resolution. as least u can see based on the size itself.
 
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crsh1976 said:
Broadwell? Surely it's supposed to be Skylake, why bother with the previous gen?

I seriously doubt we'll see discrete GPUs that powerful in the 21-inch model, those are probably for the 27-inch model (380M for the budget model, 395X for the top-end one).
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I hope the rumor's predicted "ship time" is off, and that Apple delays shipment for another couple months just to delay for Skyflake availability.
 
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Ill get the 5K imac next year. A 21" 4k version sounds very tempting for budgetary reasons, but I think anyone interested in creating 4k content would be better off paying extra for next year's 5k imac.
 
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Heck maybe I'm just insane but I would love a 30 inch+ iMac. After I saw that 32 inch display in the Palo Alto store I was completely sold on a huge monitor like that with a high pixel density.
 
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I might pick up this model if it has better specs than the 21.5" models usually have. But it probably won't. It also won't have upgrade-able RAM or target display mode. Apple also needs to drop the price on their SSDs. I've recently seen the Samsung 850 SSD 512GB for only $150. Not saying it needs to be $150 but even $300 is better than the $500 they charge currently.
 
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Leaks on OS/X El Capitan only gives hits at an 4k iMak, in no way the leak tells the actual screen size, Personally I doubt the next 4K iMac woud be a 21 incher despite having the same ppi as the 27"model, a 23-24K screen is more marketeable than a 21" also is cheaper, I've seen tex on 4K at 15.6 , 21", 24" and 32" and I can say at 23-24" its perfect and gorgous, lower than this you cant notice nothing.

I bet not only ona 4K iMac, but an 4K 23.6" USB-C Retina Display as well an 27" 5K variant on USB-C (no more retina thunderbolt, or Thunderbolt-3 signals routed thru USB-C)
 
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