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Where next for the iMac?
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If you like your text to be rendered smoothly, or want to see more of your excel spreadsheet, you want Office in super high des.
Recreation is the least useful component of the retina display.
Who is selling 5K monitors? And who is making larger ones than 5K? I cannot find any on Newegg. And if they are selling them, how much are they? Dell 4K monitors are $,1899. For $2,499 we get a 5K retina display with a computer built in. VERY reasonable price.
We don't get the Mac for that price in the UK I'm afraid. Ever heard off rip off Britain?
I take it you don't have a retina macbook. If you did, you'd know that watching TV and films is the least likely thing anyone would need a 5k iMac for. Real productivity is what these machines are about.
And no, no-one else is making a display at all like this, let alone larger. Dell has announced one, but it's not available and nothing drives it yet.
I thought there were a number of Far East options. Still can't see why my Word docs need retina? To my eyes my 2011 iMac does the job adequately.
Why would there be a need for any revolutionary changes?
The main design of the iMac has been the same for 10 years now. Sure it's thinner, less chin, better display, metal casing etc. but it's in essence the same design with small evolutionary changes.
I expect the iMac to essentially stay the same with minor update until there's no need for it anymore.
The main design of the iMac has been the same for 10 years now. Sure it's thinner, less chin, better display, metal casing etc. but it's in essence the same design with small evolutionary changes.
I expect the iMac to essentially stay the same with minor update until there's no need for it anymore.
There's no technical reason for it to be that big. But the border does have the function to separate the display from the background which is important in many situations.
Edge to edge might look cool but that's about it for single screen setups.
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I doubt that they'll make it much bigger. I guess that would be a curved ultra wide display with retina resolution.
I could see it eventually taking on a space gray look to match the new MBA/MBP design that is supposedly in the works. I also agree they'll probably make the black bezel thinner at some point.
I always hoped they drop the bezel. I would like when the next design would make it look like the Cinema Displays with a small black edge.
Who could have predicted? Anyone with some common sense, actually. Industry pundits lack common sense.
The tablet computer has always been a middle-ground device, not quite laptop, and not quite phone. Its niche just isn't wide enough for the long term, outside of dedicated tablets like e-readers and (maybe) media devices. The problem with tablets is that one of small screen size, relatively speaking, and a lack of input options. They don't have fixed keyboards or mice. Their OS's can't do what laptop OS's do. So, humanity has had a summer fling with tablets, and now that everyone understands that tablets cannot do what even laptops can do, their sales figures will adjust to reflect that. The honeymoon period of new shiny wow is over and people are buying laptops to avoid having to carry around a laptop, a phone, and a tablet.
Who could have predicted? Anyone with some common sense, actually. Industry pundits lack common sense.
The tablet computer has always been a middle-ground device, not quite laptop, and not quite phone. Its niche just isn't wide enough for the long term, outside of dedicated tablets like e-readers and (maybe) media devices. The problem with tablets is that one of small screen size, relatively speaking, and a lack of input options. They don't have fixed keyboards or mice. Their OS's can't do what laptop OS's do. So, humanity has had a summer fling with tablets, and now that everyone understands that tablets cannot do what even laptops can do, their sales figures will adjust to reflect that. The honeymoon period of new shiny wow is over and people are buying laptops to avoid having to carry around a laptop, a phone, and a tablet.
Well, part of it is also that people have fewer reasons to upgrade the tablets as the baseline capability is high enough that upgrades become incremental. There's no reason to move quickly, and when the price of a tablet is very similar to that of a laptop, well, that pushes people towards holding on to them.
People are moving to a normal upgrade cycle with tablets, which slows the sales down. If you don't upgrade your computer every year/other year, then why would it be long term normal to upgrade your tablet?
I'll also agree that phones are doing more. Bigger phones definitely invade tablet territory, and even simple features like Yosemite's better tethering options decrease the benefit of using a tablet with an always on connection.
Fundamentally, the great advantage of a tablet is that it's a pleasant consumption device and one that is somewhat more socially acceptable than a laptop to haul out in public. You can also use it while standing, it's more pleasant to show to people, you can just toss it on the couch, etc.
I'd like to see the chin shrunk down a bit, and maybe cut the bezels on the left and right side to give it shorter width to match better with the newer iOS devices.
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I'd like to see the iMac and the Mini merged. Put the iMac guts into something like a bigger Mini (wihtout sacrificing performance, so no switching to mobile CPUs like current Minis use), and separate the screen (which could then be thin enough to hang on a wall). Once Thunderbolt can drive a 5K retina display, this could become feasible.
Or would that be too much a PC-type solution for Apple?
Or would that be too much a PC-type solution for Apple?
the 256 SSD option in the new retina iMac cost the same as the standard Fusion release.By next year, Apple will refresh the line up with one or two more retina standard options, one of them will be be with SSD and by 2016 the retina line up will be SSD only.
