Posted on 10/22/2014 5:00:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Maximum Pixels in Apple’s 5K Display for the Most Demanding Photo or Video Jobs
In a world of tablets, phablets and laptops, is there room for a powerful desktop? WSJ's Geoff Fowler reviews the iMac with 5K retina display with Tanya Rivero.
I love using a desktop computer to write, surf and create, but I’ve had a nagging suspicion that they’re going away. Who needs a desktop in a world with laptops, tablets and even phones that are just as capable?
Last week Apple introduced a new kind of desktop iMac that changed my mind. The new computer is similar in shape and capability to last year’s iMac, except for one amazing feature: It packs four times the resolution into its 27-inch Retina screen. Because it has so many pixels—14.7 million, in fact—you’ll never need to think about pixels again.
Priced at $2,500 and up, you don’t need this new iMac—standard 27-inch iMacs start at $700 less. But oh boy will you want one, particularly if you spend time working with digital photos or videos. Using the Retina iMac lets you see, for the first time, every pixel you’ve captured all at once.
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I want my 12 inch macbook air with retina. The 11 inch I use 12 hours a day is nice, but getting a little beat up.
really wish I used my Imac enough to justify buying one of those ...to stuff that 5k display, etc into that little space is unreal
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Want.
Dell announced it will be selling a 27" 5K monitor starting in December for a selling price of $2495. . . equal to the retail price of the iMac 5K. . . just for a monitor.
Just retired my 6 year old MBP and got a new one w a Retina display. It is fantastic. No Maggie’s or pixels visible anywhere. Not bad keeping a rugged laptop 6 years AND running the latest OS X Mavericks very successfully on it. That was amazing.
Yes, but the monitor isn’t limited to an Apple system. The biggest downside is that it is a Dell.
Yep. Bought a brand-new iMac last year. It never gets used. I have my MacBook, Chromebook and iPhone. Wife and kids have iPads and iPhones. The iMac just sits on a desk. I can't even remember the last time I ran updates on it.
But many PC Magazine pundits have written that the best Windows PCs they've tested have been Macs. . . so neither is the iMac.
Mine shows up Monday. I upgraded the processor and GPU, and ordered extra RAM from Newegg.
Newegg rules!
I was still happy with my Late 2009 27” iMac (after I installed an SSD), but I needed a second computer for use at at second location, and I was tired of schlepping the computer.
Eighteen months interest-free with a new Barclays card. I used this the last time I got an iMac so I cancelled my card and had my wife get one.
16 GB for $130, free shipping.
Dell makes AMAZING monitors. I use two 30” monitors, one of them the new 4k, and they are amazing machines.
The only monitors I’ve used that come close are Apple’s 30” Cinema Displays.
Ed
Thirty years ago you could get 16 MB for $5K on a board a foot square. Now you can get 1,000 times as much RAM, a 1,000 times as fast, probably a 1,000 times as small, for less than 0.03 times the price.
Viva Moore’s Law!
That's crazy nice resolution, but I can only afford 1920x1080 for now.
The irony of it is that the Power Mac has support for four 4K monitors - and now Apple comes out with the 5K iMac which is cheaper than a 4K monitor. At that rate, if you use a Power Mac and want hi-res monitor(s) you will want to bypass those 4K monitor ports and just drive 5K iMac(s) as smart monitors.
I had a 20” Dell monitor for several years on three generations of Mac. It finally cooked its analog board. I took it apart to find the fault, and it turned out to be, as the Apple store geniuses say, beyond economical repair.
Later, I found a 20” iMac for $20 at a thrift store. Turned out to be a dead logic board, also not worth fixing, but I got more than my money’s worth in parts out of it.
While I had both devices taken apart, I noticed that the LCD panels are identical. Apple and Dell used the same supplier several years ago, and possibly still do.
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