But, then, you could argue that about high-resolution displays on any device: We got along fine without them, and they’re not necessary, but life is sure nicer now that we’ve got them. Is a Retina display absolutely necessary in life? There are very few people who need this many pixels-designers and photographers come to mind. “How did we live like this?,” you’ll cry out to no one. It looks good, but feels subtle-until you turn back to a non-Retina Mac display and are confronted with the brutal reality of a low-DPI screen. A close-up photo composite of Bryan Bell’s BBEdit icon on the Retina 5K iMac (left) and a non-retina display. Even the Dock is more pleasant, because the icons that inhabit it are subtly detailed in ways they weren’t before. Photos look real, like they were printed on paper. If you’ve seen the Retina MacBook Pro, you’ve seen what the Mac interface looks like when four pixels are doing the work that only one used to do. In the end, Apple’s definition of Retina-that from a normal distance you can’t see the dots-definitely applies. While the Retina iMac (like the Retina MacBook Pro before it) doesn’t offer quite as high a pixel density as iOS devices, neither do you hold either of these devices in your hand and up to your face at close range. If you’ve been through the Retina transition on the iPad or iPhone, you know how much nicer a screen is when you can’t see the pixels at all. If the buzzwords don’t do it for you, then let me say again: It’s beautiful. A photo alignment process to improve on-axis contrast, and a compensation film for off-axis contrast. Power-saving LED backlighting to reduce power consumption. Organic passivation tech from the retina iPad line in order to reduce cross-talk between pixels. Oxide TFT technology to help brightness uniformity and refresh rates. A timing controller that combines two streams of DisplayPort 1.2 on a single chip. This is a legitimately gorgeous screen, one powered by a panoply of display technologies. But the attraction here is the crazy screen, a 27-inch display with four times the pixels of the 27-inch standard iMac. Yes, many of its other specs are better than the rest of the iMac line, last updated in June. Look, the reason you’ll buy the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display (hereinafter, “Retina iMac”) is because of the screen. It’s enough to make people who fully expected to buy a Mac mini or Mac Pro switch sides and pledge allegiance to iMac Nation. You can’t buy a Mac Pro for less than $3,000, and after ignoring the Mac mini for two years, the latest update drops support for quad-core processors, making it more of a low-end model than ever before.Īnd now here comes the clincher: A new top-of-the-line 27-inch iMac that’s not just fast, but sports a gorgeous Retina display that brings nearly 15 million pixels to the party. When it was first announced in 1998, and for most of the years that followed, the name iMac represented Apple’s affordable all-in-one “computer for the rest of us.” The iMac was never the kind of Mac a self-respecting Apple nerd would use-for them there were Power Macs and Macs Pro, PowerBooks and MacBooks Pro.īut over the last few years, Apple has been slowly pushing its other Mac desktop models into corners. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. Review: 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display
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