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

[uid15]

I think you're under the impression Apple cares at all about gaming in any way.

They don't.

Not a single computer they have is intended for any form of gaming outside of quick gaming desktop Apps like you have on the i-devices.

You should clarify the first sentence of your comment with the addition of "Desktop", to avoid sounding like you are talking out of your hat. Additionally, I'm not sure how you're able to know what Apple, as a whole, does or doesn't care about, and phrase it in such a cut and dried manner.

 

[wikiverse]

Not with ARRIRAW.

Then it is 2.5K... which still needs up-scaling to 4k and doesn't even come close to 8k.

 

[velocityg4]

They might never update the Thunderbolt display. It's such a niche product these days, they can hardly be bothered with the R&D.

As for 8K what graphics card will they be using in an iMac to drive it? Sounds like a resource hogger to me, and what about content. Finding decent 4K content is hard enough, but 8K? At what point does it make no difference but to a few eagle eyed users?
I'd rather they concentrated on a wider more constant colour gamut with a matt screen than more pixels.

Not much R&D is required. The could just rebrand some other monitor as their own in a custom case. Which is essentially what they already do. For an exclusive deal I'm sure any of the manufacturers would be more than happy to add a Thunderbolt 2 hub. Perhaps give it more inputs like HDMI 2.0 and speakers. All Apple would have to do is design the case.

Which is also why I don't get why they took so long with a Mac Pro update. They didn't have to redesign it or anything. I'm sure Intel or Supermicro would have been more than happy to install a custom EFI in any of their stock Single and Dual Xeon boards for an exclusive deal.

This way Apple can free up it's engineers for more profitable lines and keep its minor lines up to date. The manufacturers recoup their minimal engineering costs in the price they charge Apple.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Not much R&D is required. The could just rebrand some other monitor as their own in a custom case. Which is essentially what they already do. For an exclusive deal I'm sure any of the manufacturers would be more than happy to add a Thunderbolt 2 hub. Perhaps give it more inputs like HDMI 2.0 and speakers. All Apple would have to do is design the case.

Which is also why I don't get why they took so long with a Mac Pro update. They didn't have to redesign it or anything. I'm sure Intel or Supermicro would have been more than happy to install a custom EFI in any of their stock Single and Dual Xeon boards for an exclusive deal.

This way Apple can free up it's engineers for more profitable lines and keep its minor lines up to date. The manufacturers recoup their minimal engineering costs in the price they charge Apple.

True, but I just don't think that sort of product release fits with Apples design ethos.

 

[dysamoria]

For the love of God, finally someone's said it!!!!
That is the only reason: the rez wall has been hit, my friends,
and thier businesses are about to collapse, quite literally, overnight.

Hardly. How many years were CRT displays manufactured for standard old style television signals??? A long damn time! As noted by others, the infrastructure isn't there, so there's no real reason to push these at consumers. It'll be slowly and painfully rolled out over a decade. Plenty time for manufacturers to milk every possible incremental "upgrade" out of displays and TVs.

 

[MacRumuer]

Everyone is wrong

They're not going to release a 8k iMac. They just released it in 5k and aren't going to re-release another resolution, that is just silly.

What they are going to do is release an 8k cinema display for the Mac Pro. It has been a very long while since they've updated it. The Mac Pro can more easily handle that resolution and an 8k is more suited for graphics professionals.

The question, however, is what size would the screen be? Maybe a super wide display or maybe 30-32incher.

As for the iMac, I hope they remove the internal 3.5" drive and go full SSD (as they'll inevitably do) and make it slimmer.

 

[thisma]

Very Wrong Image

The Image on this article is wildly wrong/misleading: the titles of the various display sizes and resolutions are not true in relation to one another and them selves; the sizes of the various representational rectangles do not correspond with the titles.

I'm not sure if I should have reported this error elsewhere... oh well.

 

[AppleCommander]

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!

I'm surprised anyone actually believes this rumor.

 

[LudwigZildjian]

I think that display would be sick! If it ever actually happens.....

 

[dragje]

The problem Apple has is that display connection standards haven't kept up with the panels themselves. DisplayPort 1.2 can't drive anything above 4k as it just hasn't got the bandwidth. 1.3 fixes that problem but was only finalised in September last year and likely won't be hitting the Mac line until Intel releases ThunderBolt 3 alongside Skylake later this year (uh, assuming they actually manage to hit that release window this time).

Basically the lack of a 5k monitor from Apple is a mix of technical limitations and a desire not to have to run a multiple cable solution. It's the same with the Pro line of computers, they're reliant on Intel (and, in the case of the Mac Pro, AMD) coming up with worthwhile new silicon. I believe there is a new generation of Xeon they could put in the MP but the MBP is stuck waiting for the massively delayed Broadwell parts. Frankly I wouldn't be too surprised if they skipped 'em entirely in favour of Skylake as Broadwell is unlikely to offer much of a performance boost and is far more important at the ultrabook end (see the new Macbook for a prime example).

That's why you see far more rapid updates on the consumer side - the tech is nowhere near as mature so big jumps in performance are (relatively) easy to achieve and as they're not quite so bleeding edge as Intel in terms of manufacturing processes there tends to be fewer delays.

Thanks for you reply smiddlehurst! It makes lot's of things pretty clear for me. I agree with what you're stating here. Thanks

 

[smiddlehurst]

Thanks for you reply smiddlehurst! It makes lot's of things pretty clear for me. I agree with what you're stating here. Thanks

Nay bother It's weird, with the exception of Apple 4k or greater displays seem to have caught the market a bit off guard. Display connections have lagged behind, media standards haven't kept pace (4k blu-ray STILL isn't here yet), software doesn't really seem to know what to do with all of that space... heck, Windows STILL doesn't support hi-dpi displays particularly well with a slightly cludgy approach to the whole thing. In short it's a mess, though in fairness the mobile industry seems to be a doing a much better job of keeping pace with the tech (though as they tend to be the ones making the screens you'd expect them to know what to do with them!).

Things will likely improve considerably over the next couple of years. 4K TV's will start coming with high dynamic range as standard, content providers will catch up, Windows 10 must surely introduce better scaling options along the lines of OS X's method of handling retina displays and while 8k is on the horizon it's likely far enough off to give 4k time to properly establish itself. In the PC market 5k and 8k monitors will offer interesting solutions to content creators but they're also going to be fairly specialised. The real trick will be getting graphics cards that can run 4k games without needing big dual slot cooling solutions but it's inevitably going to come sooner rather than later.

 

[dragje]

Nay bother It's weird, with the exception of Apple 4k or greater displays seem to have caught the market a bit off guard. Display connections have lagged behind, media standards haven't kept pace (4k blu-ray STILL isn't here yet), software doesn't really seem to know what to do with all of that space... heck, Windows STILL doesn't support hi-dpi displays particularly well with a slightly cludgy approach to the whole thing. In short it's a mess, though in fairness the mobile industry seems to be a doing a much better job of keeping pace with the tech (though as they tend to be the ones making the screens you'd expect them to know what to do with them!).

Things will likely improve considerably over the next couple of years. 4K TV's will start coming with high dynamic range as standard, content providers will catch up, Windows 10 must surely introduce better scaling options along the lines of OS X's method of handling retina displays and while 8k is on the horizon it's likely far enough off to give 4k time to properly establish itself. In the PC market 5k and 8k monitors will offer interesting solutions to content creators but they're also going to be fairly specialised. The real trick will be getting graphics cards that can run 4k games without needing big dual slot cooling solutions but it's inevitably going to come sooner rather than later.

Again I agree. What are your toughts about the Apple Mac Pro computer if I may ask? If I'm correct the last update it got is allready several years old. Isn't that way to long? After all, mobile devices seems to get a good update each half year if you look at all the competitors and in terms of one year even en fairly huge update.

I know that the Mac Pro isn't the best gaming computer, for that lots of people recommend buying a PC instead, and when you look at the benchmark results in de Mac Line the current Mac Pro only excels when you look at performance using mutiple processors and then again it only excels in specific conditions with the use of specific programs when you compare this all with the highest model iMac that all ready is iusING a 5K screen.....

Do I miss something here?

 

[diipii]

Blokes with computers are getting worse than women with handbags.

 

[NeonKingKong]

Nah, I'll skip it. 16K is where it's at.

You woke bro