I am a lot less interested in whatever snazzy new displays they have for the iMac, and much more keen to see a much bigger hard drive (preferably solid state, but more than happy with a traditional hard drive as long as it gets to at least 6TB).
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Apple Planning to Launch 4K 21.5-Inch iMac in Late October
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Ming-Chi Kuo should just create his own Apple rumors website since he's the source of all the info anyway.
You're correct. Compression lowers the quality signifiany. When the scene contains motion, it's very similar to HD. However, scenes that are still, or have minimal motion are clear as day.
it's a start, but I believe this momentum will carry through to more/better content over the next year.
AppleTV has long release cycles. If they don't support 4K now, we won't have it until 8K sets hit the market.
swingerofbirch
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The current entry level iMac is way overpriced. Technology that doesn't improve in some huge way usually gets cheaper over time. The entry iMac was once $799 and is now $1099 for technology that relative to previous standards has gotten worse. It has soldered-in 8 GB of RAM and the 1.4 Ghz processor from a now discontinued MacBook Air. The entry level iMac used to be a decently powerful computer relative to other computers on the market.
THERES NO CHIPS FOR IT
Jesus christ. If there were skylake chips available why would they hold back?
Did you use a lower resolution upscaled to your displays native resolution lately? Does this look good to you? Upscaling, especially with odd factors, is crap.
The chips for the 27 inch iMac are already out. Not sure about the 21.5 inch ones but it won't be a year.
What does "but there are a handful of Broadwell chips appropriate for various 21.5-inch iMac models" mean?
There have been other iMac releases in the past, where Apple was the first to use the new Intel chips.
Apple is a mayor customer for Intel, I assume Apple had it's hands on first samples of skylake to test them. And Skylake is ready to ship in this fall, I bet that mayor customers have the option for the fist charges.
Apple ALWAYS use underpowered GPU's
Who else would say they pick the VERY BEST components to create the most premium device, and stick GPU's out of batter powered laptops, designed for laptops due to their low power, battery needs and cramped space, and put this same GPU into a $2000+ 27" desktop machine.
It's embarrassing
Skylake is ready to chip this fall?
Sorry to break this to you, people are NOW buying Skylake CPU's to fit into PC's today.
So they can sell you this years product with a worse chip, then sell you another one for more money next year.
We all know Apple hold back tech for this very reason.
Major oems do use engineering samples for testing purposes. That isn't limited to Apple.
The chips that match the socket type, line, and power consumption Apple has consistently used in the imac up to this point show a September 1st release date. Intel sometimes roles these things out slowly, but there is no reason to expect anything other than Skylake at this point in an imac. They don't implement prior generation chips in a refresh when the new ones are actually available. The only exception to that rule was the old mac pro.
Each update to display resolution doubled the number of pixels in each dimension. In the case of laptops, the update doubled against the standard resolution of the display, not the high resolution cto option. The 21.5" display uses a 1920x1080 panel. 3840 is is often referred to as 4K. The 27" uses the same formula, but it started from a higher initial resolution.
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Not all Skylake variations are ready to ship NOW.
The desktop versions have just been announced, and will ship this fall.
But I bet Apple will be one of the first customers.
Yes they do. I've complained about it since 2003. But now I've accepted it and I have build my own external GPU over Thunderbolt. Apple and gaming will never go hand in hand.
A 24" iMac would be a much better option for lots of buyers. However, I suspect Apple realise the ever popular 24" screen size would cannibalise their 27" sales and probably make that screen size obsolete, hence we get saddled with 21.5".
Still looking on the bright side, now my mid-2011 model has an SSD I'm hoping I won't need to make any decision on replacement until 2020.
Still looking on the bright side, now my mid-2011 model has an SSD I'm hoping I won't need to make any decision on replacement until 2020.
johnnyturbouk
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Agreed, however, apple woukld do there usual anouncement in oct, but the realistic delivery of these machines [outside the USA] would likely be 2016.
Well to be perfectly honest, other vendors do offer some nice solutions, like Dell ultrasharp. Although they do not offer the same seamless integration and aesthetics as apple displays.
Haha, well said.
TBH the rImac is actually very good value, dell were charging the same price for a 5k display.
Skylake will feature ne xeons processors, thus, the mac pro can finally get an update.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9582/intel-skylake-mobile-desktop-launch-architecture-analysis
What do you mean "The desktop versions have just been announced, and will ship this fall."
Go here and buy one NOW for your Desktop PC TODAY:
http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/all/cpu-intel/intel-i7-skylake-processor
Direct link to buy: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/inte...z-turbo-8-gt-s-dmi-1150mhz-gpu-40x-ratio-91w-
And these have been on sale to the general public for a little while now.
Apple would of had access to these many months ago.
Not likely, since no desktop Mac uses desktop CPUs. iMac and Mini use Mobile and Mac Pro uses Xeons.
Im sick to to death of Apple releasing iMac's which crappy overpriced laptop GPU's instead of high performance Nvidia / ATI Chipsets. It's not acceptable these days.
The imac does not use the same parts as the mini. The imac appears to use one mobile processor in the 1.4 ghz model. Everymac lists them all as "Mobile Core", but the skus do not match any mobile processor. imacs have used the desktop variants for a very long time, so I wouldn't have expected it. Mobile versions often cost more.
You do realize that you can buy as many external HDDs as you like? I don't see any reason why you would specifically want the drives to be inside the iMac.