Friday, October 17
Retina iMac
Retina iMac!
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Retina iMac!
5120x2880 display.
Mostly it's the same as last year's model, with the rest of the hardware getting minor upgrades - Thunderbolt 2, and up to the Core i7 4790K processor and Radeon R9 M295X graphics. Which is the fastest 4-core desktop CPU you can get, and one of the fastest mobile graphics chips.*
So the new 14 megapixel display is the one standout feature. Is it worth the price increase?
In a word, hell yeah. Comparing equivalent models, retina and non-retina, the difference is only $300 - $2499 vs. $2199 in the US, or $2999 vs $2689 in Australia.
Given that Dell's 5K monitor is expected to sell for $2499 by itself, $2499 for a fairly well-configured** 5K iMac is a bargain.
Am I getting one here at PixyLab? Yes. No question, this is going to be my new primary computer. I'm going to go for a system with a 1TB SSD, so my config will be a little more expensive, but I was planning to get a 4K display and some sort of Mac in any case.
Update: Just saw a review of the latest version of MacOS X 10.10. Like iOS 7 and Windows 8 before it, it looks like a cheap cartoon version of itself. You have 14 million pixels to work with and you give us this?!
* Faster than my desktop Radeon 7950.
** That includes a 3.5GHz quad-core CPU, Radeon R9 M290 graphics, a 1TB fusion drive, and 8GB of RAM. That's a little light on the RAM, which is user-upgradeable and so not a problem, and probably also on the storage, which isn't.
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