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First Hands-On Impressions of 27-Inch Retina iMac: Sharp Image Quality, Great Viewing Angles
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Connecting 2xDisplayPort 1.2 is a silly option to even bring up. Do it right or don't bother.
Depends. If you have an old Mac Pro, you can upgrade the GPU and use the 5K Dell montior. If it's the new Mac Pro, sorry, you'll have to junk it and buy the next revision MP to drive a 5K monitor!
Am I to presume that running something like x-plane with everything cranked up to no. 11 on this at 2560 x 1440 that it would absolutely fly (no pun intended).
Yup. Wake me up when Apple releases the 21" Retina iMac. It should not be all that difficult for Apple to put retina in the smaller iMac display.
Depends. If you have an old Mac Pro, you can upgrade the GPU and use the 5K Dell montior. If it's the new Mac Pro, sorry, you'll have to junk it and buy the next revision MP to drive a 5K monitor!
Hahahaha,Dell it is then ;-),no its not, , i cant believe that they still are not selling a apple display that works with the new macpro and has usb 3, the 5k is not something i realy want , would be nice but come on, the thunderbolt display is a joke if you ask me.
15 million pixels is... just a lot. A _monitor_ of that quality from other brands probably runs the price of the whole machine.
I'm glad it's out, and I'm glad that certain people that said NEVER got a bit of comeuppance. I thought it seemed unlikely, but not implausible. Some people even projected prices of $3000 and up. I suppose that's true if you add a couple upgrades, but that's to be expected.
I'm glad it's out, and I'm glad that certain people that said NEVER got a bit of comeuppance. I thought it seemed unlikely, but not implausible. Some people even projected prices of $3000 and up. I suppose that's true if you add a couple upgrades, but that's to be expected.
No 21" version?? Also the Mac Mini upgrades are very underwhelming. I would have figured at least 8GB ram and SSD across the board but sadly it was not to be.
Text will, as will any other kind of vector graphic. All the icons in OS X are also very high-res.
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Yeah, the Mac mini line is still lame. If you want a decent i5 in one, it ends up costing only $300 less than a comparable iMac. Better to get the screen and everything for the extra $300.
I would love a screen like that, but only, and it's a BIG ONLY if the computer driving it has a GPU that can handle it for any of my uses.
At the moment I don't think the current iMac can do that.
When other machines get screens like this, then I may look at getting one.
It's a trade off between dots and speed, and whilst dots are great, jerky framerate dots are not.
But for video editing type work I'm sure it's great and that seems to be what it's made for.
At the moment I don't think the current iMac can do that.
When other machines get screens like this, then I may look at getting one.
It's a trade off between dots and speed, and whilst dots are great, jerky framerate dots are not.
But for video editing type work I'm sure it's great and that seems to be what it's made for.
I can only imagine the Android fanboy comments on this, especially on The Verge. Facebook is being lit like nuclear explosions.
Yeah but the screen on the previous iMac (still available) is not so good anymore. Once you've used a retina display is almost impossible to go back. I can easily notice the pixels on the non-retina iMacs.
Well my 2011 iMac i7 is sitting at the Apple Store running video loops trying to stress the video card since I've been having problems but they won't replace it until it fails their test (which is reasonable) so I was thinking about a new one when the rumors started to heat up. I told myself that it needed to come in at around $2500 which I figured was a long shot. Very happy and new iMac is incoming!
Got an iMac last year so I'm good until 2016 but very excited for this in the future. Was REALLY a hoping for an updated Thunderbolt Display but I guess we will have to wait until mid 2015.
Um, no. That doesn't even make sense. It's a retina display, everything will look good.
With the exception of ALL text and the user interface.
So: writing, spreadsheets, browsing, email, messaging, social media, anything.
All of that benefits greatly, if you've ever tried a retina Mac.
False. I have to use the old pages on my 2014 rMBP because the latest version lacks basic functionality. (Canvas, page reordering, facing pages, vertical ruler, for example).
The whole application looks terrible. The text is horribly fuzzy.
The problem is that rMBPs have been out for over two years and there is still no software to replace the old iWork apps from apple. The new versions still don't have the basic functions of the original. So the OP was correct in saying that there are no applications that will look good on this monitor for years to come.
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Not all text. Try using the old version of pages (before apple removed all the functionality). Text looks horrible. Like a badly compressed gif.
Definitely getting this
next autumn! Intel's Skylake is going to be amazing in this machine. Any kinks in the manufacturing quality should also be worked out (hopefully there aren't any, but lately Apple has been inconsistent). My current machine does well enough for now, though I am in need of a new display. I'd also like to get a 1TB SSD for a more reasonable price, so another year should help with that. The fusion drive in my work 27" iMac is decent, but nowhere near as fast as the drive in my 15" rMBP. Does the 3TB fusion drive have more SSD in it? Too bad we can't use Bootcamp from an external Thunderbolt drive or 512GB would be fine for me using externals for media. This thing would also be my gaming PC, but running at 1080p for obvious reasons: Windows would probably die at 5K and games would stutter.