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Retina Displays Also Coming to Next-Generation iMac?

Hmmm.....if the Macbook Air gets retina, I might get the smallest and cheapest Macbook Air and a 27" iMac instead of a new 15" Macbook Pro. I'm worried that my 26" IPS display will look too pixelated and I'll end up doing all my main work on the 15" retina display because I'll be spoiled. I think a 15" Macbook Pro plus an updated retina Thunderbolt display would be less cost effective—but the Thunderbolt display would likely have the much better color accuracy that I need as a designer and photographer. But I still need portability for visiting clients or traveling to do image dumps to external drives. I wish the iPad could transfer images from a CF card onto an external drive. An iMac plus iPad would be ideal. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish a file dump using an iPad and perhaps an app and third party hardware accessory? I currently download RAW images and 1080p video from 16/32GB CF cards to a 1TB GoFlex drive that has a USB and Firewire adapter.
 
I want a retina display I can buy separately for my 2008 Mac Pro I will be getting soon. The 2006 iMac has a faulty GPU, and it doesn't suit me well (there is a waterfall of wires off the side of my desk all connected to it).

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aurichie said:
I heard a rumour tonight that Samsung will be bringing stunning retina displays to their range of laptops next year.
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Samsung makes the displays if I am not mistaken. I highly doubt that this will be a Mac-only thing unless Microsoft fails to make an OS update that supports the new screens. Apple is a electronic products company, not a tech parts company.
 
katewes said:
When I had my pre-Retina iPod touch, I could easily see the pixelation of the fonts when reading, so, there, Retina makes a big difference. But on my MacBook Pro I cannot discern the pixelation at the normal distance at which I use the desktop and notebook computers.

Of course it would make some differences, and it would be nice to have, but it's not a big deal to me.
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Pictures on a retina display iPad looks so sharp and so impressive that I am pretty sure you will have a hard time going back to a regular monitor once you start using a retina iMac or MBP.

Before I got my iPhone 4S, I thought the resolution on my 3GS was quite good already, so I was not all that excited about the retina. Now when I go back to 3GS, I am surprised that I was able to happily live with text so fuzzy. People get spoiled very easily.
 
macduke said:
Hmmm.....if the Macbook Air gets retina, I might get the smallest and cheapest Macbook Air and a 27" iMac instead of a new 15" Macbook Pro. I'm worried that my 26" IPS display will look too pixelated and I'll end up doing all my main work on the 15" retina display because I'll be spoiled. I think a 15" Macbook Pro plus an updated retina Thunderbolt display would be less cost effective—but the Thunderbolt display would likely have the much better color accuracy that I need as a designer and photographer. But I still need portability for visiting clients or traveling to do image dumps to external drives. I wish the iPad could transfer images from a CF card onto an external drive. An iMac plus iPad would be ideal. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish a file dump using an iPad and perhaps an app and third party hardware accessory? I currently download RAW images and 1080p video from 16/32GB CF cards to a 1TB GoFlex drive that has a USB and Firewire adapter.
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even though there is such rumors, i would still see it as a real rumors. I still don't believe that a quadruple retina display will come with the next imac. there is no point in upgrading it to such a large resolution. If you think from a company side, doing a retina display for imac will rocket the cost of producing it. Apple is not that stupid to do that.

one sentence, i don't believe a quadruple retina display will come with the next-gen imac. Even though i want it so badly also.
 
another silly rumour

sure it may happen in a couple years but really if the retina display comes its only going to be for macbooks both airs and pros
 
Retina

I think the idea of it for general use is nice, but it's gonna really suck for games, the last gen type video cards Apple typically uses in their machines are gonna have a hard time rendering at those resolutions.
 
Looking very much forward to this ... and indeed, an unmirrored-matte version would be the best thing for me :)
 
To be honest I doubt a hidpi display is coming to the iMacs. it would be very expensive to manufacture these displays at such large sizes without significantly increasing costs, unless Apple wants a smaller profit margin, but that's not going to happen.
 
seriall said:
same here! cheers!
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Ditto iMacloving all the rumors :D

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that1guyy said:
To be honest I doubt a hidpi display is coming to the iMacs. it would be very expensive to manufacture these displays at such large sizes without significantly increasing costs, unless Apple wants a smaller profit margin, but that's not going to happen.
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The price will just increase....
 
that1guyy said:
To be honest I doubt a hidpi display is coming to the iMacs. it would be very expensive to manufacture these displays at such large sizes without significantly increasing costs, unless Apple wants a smaller profit margin, but that's not going to happen.
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I'm with you. Not on the profit margin argument (most other components have come down in price) but because it would really stretch GPUs and drive gamers (not one of them) and Pro users away from Macs even further.
 
Would love a 21.5" Apple Thunderbolt Cinema Display, especially with improved pixel density
 
I'm totally for all the other rumors today, but this is just getting out of hand.

5120x2880? 3840x2400? Do LG/Samsung/whomever supplies iMac displays even have any of these in production!?

Don't get me wrong, I think it would be awesome, but the power and GPU required to make these as good, if not better, in terms of performance to the current gen seems a little too unbelievable at this point in time (especially considering Apple's demand for high profit margins).

We shall see though. We shall see.
 
I'm not hot on the iMac retina display for the 27". It's okay for the smaller screen. The resolution is already great on the 27's. All 27" IPS monitors are already $900 to a few thousand with 2560 x 1440 resolution. Why go higher than this? I don't want the iMac price to go through the roof. And you will use your GPU power just for displaying this higher resolution. I would need to wear magnifying glasses to read the screen because of the small size. My husband's Viewsonic 27" runs at 1920x1080 and that looks pretty good when gaming. It is a good gaming monitor with a 3ms response time. I would be more interested in Apple reducing the response time rather than doubling the resolution from 2560 x 1440.
 
With all the high-res screens on the horizon, maybe 4K video will also see consumer adoption quicker than we all anticipated.
 
I still don't see the point.
After using the iPhone 4S for a while, the original iPad and especially the 3GS look quite grainy, but my 2009 iMac still looks fine. And I sit pretty close to it.
 
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