![]() ![]() 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. Most notably, starting with version 5. 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. Since Astropad’s initial release of the Mac-to-Mac mode, the company has radically improved Luna Display. 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. And, maybe graphics will be better suited for 5k resolutions.At Apple’s media event yesterday, Apple unveiled a new high-end iMac that includes a Retina 5K display. Perhaps panel prices will come down and they can use a better quality panel for the same price. Something had to give to make it affordable and while the panel is good, its not great.īottom line, I would wait for the next revision. There's a reason why this iMac doesn't cost $4000 and thats because they didn't use the best panel they could. The iMac 'Core i7' 3.8 27-Inch Aluminum (Retina 5K, 2020/Comet Lake) features a 14-nm 'Comet Lake' 3. I would forget about playing any kind of games on it if you want to use full res. There are some other video reviews that show it still stuttering (dropping frames) with the upgraded AMD graphics. I also noticed it WAS laggy, even with the most simple tasks it would sometimes stutter. Yes, I know its an IPS 5k panel, but there was still some noticeable color shift. It would also lose its colors at certain angles, something the regular 27" iMac doesn't do. Yes, the 5k portion was pretty cool, but I don't think it was on par with colors, contrast, etc with the regular 27" iMac. The screen wasn't as good as the regular 27" iMac sitting next to it. Apple weds high-res 5K visuals into its sleek, 5mm thin, mid 2017 27' iMac with Retina 5K Display. When I tested one I wasn't really impressed. ![]()
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