![]() ![]() The iMac isn’t a table ornament it’s a workhorse, albeit a very pretty one. The iMac remains one of the best-looking computers you can have on your desk.Ī metal stand holds up the screen and slim body, which manages to fit in a plethora of high-end components – including a discrete graphics card. That would be doing it a disservice, though. After all, it’s been around in this form since 2013. It’s easy to be blasé about the iMac’s all-metal-and-glass style. Running the latest version of OS X, El Capitan, the new iMac also incorporates Intel’s newest Skylake chipset to boost both performance and efficiency.Īll these components combine to make the best all-in-one personal computer you can get right now. It now comes with an even greater range of colours, thanks to the use of a new colour space more commonly used by film types in Hollywood. Of course, the headline feature of the 2015 iMac is that 5K 27-inch display, to which Apple has made further improvements. In 2015, Apple brought the Retina-quality display to the 21.5-inch iMacs too – this time 4K – but it’s the big, 27-inch model I’m reviewing here. While it looked identical to its predecessor, the pin-sharp screen was an enormous improvement. Not bad.It might not have gained as many plaudits as the iPhone 6S, but last year’s 5K 27-inch iMac was a revelation. Final Cut Pro wasn’t even running full screen-in the photo below, notice the Dock still hogging some space along the bottom. ![]() In the hands-on area at Apple HQ, I saw the new 27-inch iMac editing 4K video in pixel-for-pixel resolution, with enough room left on the screen for all of Final Cut Pro’s toolbars and controls. The company also employs organic passivation technology, which takes the data lines and pixels and puts them on different planes, inserting an organic layer in-between to make the video signals clearer. Apple shifted to oxide TFT from amorphous TFT in order to charge the pixels faster and let them hold longer for your viewing pleasure. Packing 5120 x 2880 pixels, the new iMac has the sharpest screen I’ve seen on any PC. Whether I viewed it head-on or from the side (extreme sides), the new iMac with 5K Retina Display ($2,499) wowed with its highly detailed and colorful visuals. It should probably come with a drool cup. Watching a 4K video back pixel-for-pixel with room to spare is a pretty fun thing to do. It’s quite reflective, but it’s crisp and sharp and accurate. How much more can you really say? The screen is gorgeous. And what a screen: the new 27-inch iMac with Retina display’s 5K, 5120 x 2880 display looks incredible. It was made much sleeker, then much thinner, and today Apple focused not on the shell but on the screen. And even as someone who’s used to using a Retina MacBook Pro as his main machine, it’s a big step up.Īpple loves making the iMac easier on the eyes. The new screen is, as you might expect, gorgeous at first sight, and prolonged exposure only heightens the experience. Apple have also used more efficient LEDs which has actually enabled them to power four times the number of pixels with 30 percent less power. The Oxide thin film transistor (TFT) provides the electrical charge to each pixel and does so more precisely and quicker than other technologies - and is even more energy efficient. Because there are nearly 15 million pixels, Apple developed its own timing controller that has four times the bandwidth of the previous generation 27-inch iMac. The Retina iMac can be further upgraded to a 4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, 32GB of RAM a 3TB Fusion Drive or 1TB SSD and an AMD Radeon R9 M295X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory.Īpple’s website explains the interesting technical features that allow the iMac to have a 5K display, including a custom timing controller, Oxide TFT and highly efficient LEDs. ![]() “With a breathtaking 14.7 million pixel display, faster CPU and graphics, Fusion Drive, and Thunderbolt 2, it’s the most beautiful and powerful iMac ever.” “Thirty years after the first Mac changed the world, the new iMac with Retina 5K display running OS X Yosemite is the most insanely great Mac we have ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. In every other respect, the iMac is identical to its non-Retina version, still tapering off to the sides with an edge of just 5mm. Starting at US$2499 it includes the 5K display with a resolution of 5120x2880, a 3.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB Fusion Drive and an AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics processor with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. At Apple’s media event yesterday, Apple unveiled a new high-end iMac that includes a Retina 5K display. ![]()
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