New retina iMac 4K!

[cocky jeremy]

Once again. If you wish to stop using technology simply because of the year it was invented, you should bin your keyboard. And anything that uses, you know, electricity. And anything with wheels.

He never said anything about when something was invented. He said outdated. As in, "Something better has come along". Nothing better than a mouse and keyboard has come along for typing or moving the cursor. Obviously, there have been better, quicker, easier ways to move data to and from a computer than a CD/DVD. It's outdated, not old.

 

[MythicFrost]

Actually laughed my head off at this.

In regards to the original post. I do think the iMac will eventually sport a higher resolution display, it's rather obvious actually. 4K will become the norm whether we like it or not in the next 5 years, just like 'HD' TV did 7-8 years ago. An updated iMac display will fit nicely in that 5 year window. Furthermore, It won't be anytime in the next year. It's already one of the finest displays on the market, why push to change it when there is nobody else around it seriously challenging it.

The same reason they did it with the iPhone, iPad and rMBP.

 

[Zav]

The same reason they did it with the iPhone, iPad and rMBP.

Larger market, more competition at the time. Who is really competing with the iMac in overall similarity and design? No-one.

 

[seanm9]

... 4K will become the norm whether we like it or not in the next 5 years, just like 'HD' TV did 7-8 years ago. ....

the flaw in this logic is that 4k will become the norm because HDTV became the norm… HD will stay the norm for TV's for the next 40 or 50 years… ATSC has no provisions for higher resolutions than HDTV and with out broadcaster support the inertia will be to great to change… and lets face it… 4k looks great in a movie theater with a 360" screen… but does it look any better than 720p on a 55" screen when you are 10' away…(my math may be wrong but the idea is correct) by the time you get far enough away to see the whole picture you can't see the pixels… now I know that Computer displays are not TV's, but the fact remains fitting 4 1080p images on my 27' display would be next to useless… fitting 1 Full HD window, with room for editing controls and time lines around the window would be perfect… and i bet that 1800p (3200X1800) will be the magic number for the 27" with and the current 1440p resolution on the 21.5" model…

 

[Serban]

They always double the pixel when thay made a product a retina display so will be 2880p for 27" and 2160p for the 21.5"

 

[MythicFrost]

Larger market, more competition at the time. Who is really competing with the iMac in overall similarity and design? No-one.

In terms of design there's no competition, but there are all-in-one alternatives, and I've been seeing more and more come through the woodwork.

Nevertheless remember that the iMac is Apple's consumer desktop system. It doesn't matter if other all-in-one systems aren't competing, because the iMac also has to hold ground against desktop PCs -- and 4k displays are coming.

It would be quite a feat, to be able to put 5120x2880 on a 27 inch display. It'd make sure Apple is the leader in the display market too. (In terms of resolution.)

(I also see the 27 inch TBD getting a Retina treatment as well.)

 

[blanka]

4K is so 2001.
Hell I still love my IBM T221

 

[Zaphodsplanet]

Hysterical....

I needed a laugh, thanks.

But what I want to know is.....

When will we get our 27" iPads?

7".... c'mon
9"...... are you joking?

27"...... Yeah Baby! .....sure it won't fit in your pocket all that well, or your backpack... or even your brief case, but it can double as a TV tray with the proper iEat stand.

 

[Raima]

I'm going to avoid the first gen 4k iMacs.

Sure the desktop will look great, but as soon as you try to do any large animation or video in 4k, the refresh rate is going to be a total let down.

I'm going to wait for the video cards to catch up and the screens to mature a bit more before hopping in.

 

[Serban]

i think 4K with a 780MX will be more than fine

 

[Outrigger]

i think 4K with a 780MX will be more than fine

how were you able to draw that conclusion?

 

[ka-spot]

I needed a laugh, thanks.

But what I want to know is.....

When will we get our 27" iPads?

7".... c'mon
9"...... are you joking?

27"...... Yeah Baby! .....sure it won't fit in your pocket all that well, or your backpack... or even your brief case, but it can double as a TV tray with the proper iEat stand.

Awesome

 

[mumph]

If retina iMacs do come, and I hope they do, then the 21.5 inch model will carry a 3840x2160 resolution, and the 27 inch model a 5120x2880 resolution.

Good luck trying to find wallpaper to fit that lol

 

[MythicFrost]

Good luck trying to find wallpaper to fit that lol

ikr

Will take a while for people to release them...

 

[Wreckem]

You are not going to see a 4K iMac this year. The panels are just too damn expensive. You may see a 4K ACD that costs ~$3-4k.

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They always double the pixel when thay made a product a retina display so will be 2880p for 27" and 2160p for the 21.5"

2160p is 4K. They arent going to release 4k on a 21.5" monitor as that would be entirely pointless.

 

[phrehdd]

Once again. If you wish to stop using technology simply because of the year it was invented, you should bin your keyboard. And anything that uses, you know, electricity. And anything with wheels.

Obviously this person will also not use OSX since it is based on an operating system that also is over 30 years old (variant of Unix).

 

[zipur]

When it comes out you can expect 4k will be the price increase for a 27in.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

One of the reasons why I don't think Apple is going to work too hard on developing good multi-monitor support in future versions of OS X is because I suspect that for those that want multiple monitors there will be larger displays to choose and perhaps a 32" may just work for many.

Ha, ha, ha. One of the big features of OS X 10.9 is the improved multi-monitor support.

 

[WilliamG]

I don't see retina iMacs anytime really soon. Apple tends to 4x the resolution when they do retina displays (e.g. 480x320 became 960x640 on the iPhone 4, 1280x800 became 2560x1600 on the MacBook Pro 13.3", 1440x900 became 2880x1800 on the 15.4" MacBook Pro. Actually, I wish the 15.4" MacBook Pro had used the high-res version as its start point so that it would have gone from 1680x1050 to 3360x2100. 1440x900 effective resolution is not enough real estate (I know you can scale, but still...).

Anyway, that means the 21.5" iMac will have to go from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 (4k) to become retina and maintain compatibility, and the 27" iMac will have to become 5120x2880. That's one heck of a resolution. I'm sure Apple could do it/get it done, but it might be a while.

That said, I'd love to be surprised.

 

[Serban]

780M-It is based on the 28nm GK104 Kepler architecture similar to the GTX 680M, but features more CUDA cores (1536 vs. 1344), a higher clock rate and GPU Boost 2.0. As of summer 2013, it is the fastest laptop graphics card on the market.