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LG Display Claims Apple Will Release the 'iMac 8K' Later This Year

I think is a real April joke.
Apple will not release 8k iMac. There is no GPU to handle that display one and two the apps are only refresh for 5k still

Maybe a 8K Monitor Apple display yes
Treat this with as it is, a bad joke
 
If we assume (big assumption) that this rumor is somehow true... it begs the question of when the old rumor of OS X going almost completely resolution independent will be resurrected. This kind of change would make for a rather large gap in resolutions between machines, and between resolutions people might choose. I know people who still want 1240x768 (or a scaled equivalent) seems like a resolution independent (vector based?) UI, while certainly not required might make more sense in the rumor mills once again.

But really my biggest hope for this rumor is hoping that computer display manufacturers will start putting out displays (in a reasonable price range) with higher resolution than 1080p. It feels like we have stagnated there for a very long time, you walk through Costco, or most other places and almost all of their displays regardless of physical size are only 1080p.
 
This is at least 3 years away, they wouldn't release a model thats relevant for only a year.
 
MacDarcy said:
8K? You can't even use the new 4K as an external monitor with your MacBooks yet! They haven't even updated the Cinema Display to 4k yet! And the upcoming Apple TV won't even have 4k streaming yet. wtf? Let technology catch up Alittle first apple. Sheesh!:)
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I'm current looking at this forum on my Dell UP2414Q 4k monitor connected to my Late-2013 15" rMBP. Works like a charm.

Based on this web page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202856

You can use 4K displays and Ultra HD TVs with these Mac computers:
MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013 and later)
Mac Pro (Late 2013)
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013 and later)
Mac mini (Late 2014)
MacBook Air (Early 2015)

These computers also support multi-stream transport (MST) displays at 60 Hz:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013 and later)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
Mac Pro (Late 2013)
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)

I think only the second list supports 60 Hz refresh, but that's still a lot of models.
 
This is a joke, Apple can't release an 8k iMac(imac=computer) because there is no GPU to handle very nice that resolution.
If its true maybe its about Apple monitor or TV OR, a big OR, its about a bigger iMac with support for dual GPU
 
Given where Apple has been putting their time, money and focus lately, it wouldn't surprise me that they think, somehow, that 8K is important and that we (the consumers) want it.

But, the statement "Apple has also announced that they will release the 'iMac 8K' with a super-high resolution display later this year.", where did Apple announce it? It doesn't say leaked, or rumored, etc., it says announced. Did we miss that?
 
Interesting if true. 60hz (assuming Apple would not settle for a 30hz display) at 8K would be quite an accomplishment on LG's behalf. :eek:
 
If no one is asking for this, then there is no one to buy it. Not happening.

I would barely even call this a rumor.
 
TallGuyGT said:
Seems more likely to be a 32"+ external 8k display for the next gen Mac Pro. (obviously pure speculation on my part)
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Not necessarily a Mac Pro, but definitely a much bigger screen than 27". I honestly can't tell the difference between the old 27" iMacs and the 5K iMacs - I can't imagine anyone else could tell the difference between 5K and 8K at 27".

Can anyone do the math (I will if no one else does) - if Apple keeps the PPI of the 5K iMac but increases to 8K, how big of a screen would we be talking about?

Edit: gnasher729 answered a few posts below: it would be 40.5".
 
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Instead of spending time and effort on this low quality 8K iMac (half of 16K, geez...) they should work toward a snappier Safari.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Not necessarily a Mac Pro, but definitely a much bigger screen than 27". I honestly can't tell the difference between the old 27" iMacs and the 5K iMacs - I can't imagine anyone else could tell the difference between 5K and 8K at 27".

Can anyone do the math (I will if no one else does) - if Apple keeps the PPI of the 5K iMac but increases to 8K, how big of a screen would we be talking about?
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5k iMac is 5120 x 2880. 8k is 7680 x 4320. That's 1.5 times more in each direction (not 1.6 times more, as you might think reading 5k and 8k). Would be 40.5" at the same resolution.

uiop. said:
Interesting if true. 60hz (assuming Apple would not settle for a 30hz display) at 8K would be quite an accomplishment on LG's behalf. :eek:
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At 60 Hz, it would be 7680 x 4320 x 60 pixels per second, that is close to 2 billion pixels. Instead of 24 bit RGB, you could transmit 16bit YUV which makes 4 billion bytes or 32GBit per second. That's an awful lot. RGB would be 6 billion bytes or 48GBit per second.
 
Responses to articles like this are always so bizarre. "Yeah, technology sucks! How dare anyone try to advance the state of the art, everything is perfect now, shut down all R&D already!" The Luddite forums are over that way, people.

Anyway, just wanted to point out the scale image used in this article is completely wrong.
 
If this happens this year I'll eat my 4K iMac. :p

Honestly though, go right ahead. I don't think I could be much happier than I am. Apple's entirely theoretical 8K displays hold no envy for me. Who would benefit from such a display?
 
That Image is WRONG!

Hey, MacRumoers... Please Fact check prior to posting STANDARDs like display resolutions.. You know, something like this is not hard!

Display Resolution Standards

  • QHD 2k is 2560x1440 (your image says QHD is 3840x2160, which is not correct, at all)
  • 3840x2160 is NOT QHD, its UHD 4K! FACT CHECK PLS MacRumors!
  • 4096 x 2160 is UHD DCI or otherwise known as Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI-Compliant)

Both 3840x2160 and 4096x2160 are 4K UHD, one is just a industry standard.. that most monitor MFG ignore.. lol (I think it's mainly 3840x2160 is 16x9 where 4096x2160 aspect ratio is off... )
 
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Serban said:
I think is a real April joke.
Apple will not release 8k iMac. There is no GPU to handle that display one and two the apps are only refresh for 5k still

Maybe a 8K Monitor Apple display yes
Treat this with as it is, a bad joke
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yes, this does look like an April fool's joke. The date of that blog entry is March 31. and the phrase "Apple has also announced..." is suspicious. Apple definitely hasn't announced anything like that.
 
gnasher729 said:
5k iMac is 5120 x 2880. 8k is 7680 x 4320. That's 1.5 times more in each direction (not 1.6 times more, as you might think reading 5k and 8k). Would be 40.5" at the same resolution.
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Thanks! I did the math myself a different way anyways, but ended up with the exact same answer.

I'd be very happy with a 40.5" screen. The 24" I have right now is way too cramped, and I don't feel like 27" would be a significant improvement.

At 60 Hz, it would be 7680 x 4320 x 60 pixels per second, that is close to 2 billion pixels. Instead of 24 bit RGB, you could transmit 16bit YUV which makes 4 billion bytes or 32GBit per second. That's an awful lot. RGB would be 6 billion bytes or 48GBit per second.
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You don't actually send every pixel on every refresh on most screens though, do you? I thought most screens expect a starting X & Y coordinate, then a Width & Height, then they expect the actual colors to fill that rect in with?

Would it be possible to make a screen that doesn't even take in raw pixel data, but instead takes in something like an SVG...? It seems to me it would need to get rasterized (word?) at some point no matter what unless we somehow fundamentally changed how screens worked and no longer had pixels (maybe like an O-scope or something?)
 
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