A decade ago Apple had 23" & 30" displays. Maybe they could afford it again?
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Apple to Launch 4K 21.5-inch Retina iMac Next Week, iPad Pro in Early November
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snap I'm due the upgrade, but would prefer to wait for them, dot know if I can wait another year though...
Yes, I've been waiting for pressure sensitive screens to macbooks ever since 2008! Finally Apple, way to go!
That's exactly the reason I went for a Mac mini and 24" Dell monitor last time I upgraded my desktop.
answering my own question. Comparing the present retina 27". The 512 SSD with 8 GB imac Retina 21.5" will be £1599.00
Anyone care to correct me on that?
From experience if you have XP, W7 & W10 etc with Parralels 11 and El Cap 512 SSD is a nice storage size.
Desktop Broadwell's were released THIS JUNE, THIS YEAR and they became available in shops late July. These are barely three months old CPU's!
Two years in French Foreign Legion would do good for these ADHD kids... /s
Soupcan, you must not be familiar with iMacs. Or Mac Minis, or Mac laptops. They all run mobile GPUs, and have for at least a decade.
The desktop improvement from Skylake is neglible, but what about improving the GPU performance (especially for gaming) by going back to Nvidia, and using their new upgraded mobile GTX980 gfx card? This is what really matters!
...And a monitor that displays (higher) non-native resolutions without blurring the image (like the new MacBook)
...And a monitor that displays (higher) non-native resolutions without blurring the image (like the new MacBook)
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However, as Intel has messed up it's release cycle, Skylake was released in August. So for Apple not to choose Skylake now would be very disappointing! Also, Skylake is a new architecture. So let us have the new architecture.
I don't think that the 4k iMac will replace the current non 4k across the line. I think Apple will add it as an option at the top of the 21.5" configuration, very much like they did for the 5k 27" iMac.
That would probably put the 4k model closer to about $1699 to $1999.
The problem here is that an 24" iMac would require a resolution of something like 4608 x 2592 to get a comparable DPI and I guess such a display would be rather expensive and difficult to make.
What do you mean by same old design?!?! The current design is beautiful, lightweight for spinning around to access the back, etc. Now, it itself replaced a truly old design. When I have to pick one up, it's shocking just how beastly heavy it is.
Do you mean between Haswell and Broadwell? In 21.5" iMac class (considering thermal requirements) Broadwell will bring HUGE performance boost. It will bring 5k iMac CPU power to the smaller size iMac. iGPU in Broadwell is almost as fast as M370X. So it leaves current 755M eating dust. It is 30% - 50% faster that fastest AMD APU iGPU.
Broadwell i5-5675C and i7-5775C are perfect chips for iMac without dGPU. But if paired with dGPU, Skylake CPU's are better option, because they're cheaper and you don't need Iris Pro anyway.
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It doesn't have a battery and the design is not mobile regardless of it's internals. That's what's being criticized here, Apple using mobile components.
I just want one with a PCIe slot for eGPU in the monitor, but that's dreaming, right...
Apple could turn their iMac's to a Thunderbolt display if they'd just let it happen. So, if you'd plug iMac to your Macbook/ Pro/Mac Pro, the iMac would become a Thunderbolt 2 display with eGPU.
I don't know why they don't do that. External 5k displays are nearly as expensive as 5k iMac. So instead of letting Dell sell you a 5k display, Apple could sell you an iMac. And because it has its own GPU, any Mac could use it.
I wouldn't be surprised if this happens with the new form factor next year.
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Only the GPU is a mobile component. The CPU, storage(They use 3.5" HDDs), display, and ports are all desktop class components. If they can put in the new GTX 980 for notebooks, it would perform exactly as any gaming PC.
On normal 1080p or 1440p displays I don't mind. We're talking about 4K and 5K displays here.