He had this whole "one more thing" speech prepared but scrapped it for "the rumor mill spoiled our surprise, but try to look delighted when I say 5K iMac."
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, tear things down.
Looks like everybody missed the point of the hardware being the same as last year, most spectacularly you.
Apple was able to increase the resolution to 5K, to drive that many more pixels, without having to change any of the hardware elements inside, meaning the power supply, the backlighting, the heat management , etc., because of the efficiency of the oxide backplane for the LCD display. It uses 30% less power, Phil said, but whether that means "less than the previous display" or "than if it were not an oxide 5K display" remains to be clarified, to me at least. Or maybe the backlight uses 30% less power, due to the reduced conductor profile.
Anyway, it's all about electron motility in that combination of elements, which I assume are indium, gallium, and zinc oxide. Your "manufacturing buzzword" IGZO bears watching, because it will extend the useful lifetime of the LCD display at large, dense sizes as we wait for OLED to get its blue pixel act together. Physics are a trip; you should look into it sometime.
OK, here is a question to anybody who does have some idea - I do not need a Mac right now, but I am ready to take the plunge and get the 5K iMac. The question is, how much of a difference would Broadwell make as opposed to Haswell (that is currently used I think)?
Is it worth waiting for a refresh, or will there not be much difference performance-wise? I plan on getting the Quad-core i7 4GHz model. If I was to run FCP X, would I really see much difference? What exactly are we expecting with Broadwell?
In Steve Jobs's day, he would have announced the release of 4k content on the same day, thereby surprising and delighting us.
Alas, the golden days are past, which means we have to make do with raising an eyebrow and being relieved that things could be worse.
oh, look -- another ghost channeler. tell us, oh lord of the dead, what else would jobs have done? you must have known the man well.
I wouldn't be so bold as to name myself 'Lord of the Dead', but I will let you know what else Jobs would have done in due course, as you are so eager to know. I look forward to regaling you with those things.
Maybe it's too soon to say they'll skip Broadwell for Skylake.
Look, this sounds terrible, but whatever gets an nVidia 9xx series chip into a Mac (or a TDP and power-comparable ATI chip) is fine by me. I'll let the Hackintoshers do their thing and I'll get a GeForce 970 for my Mac Pro.
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He had this whole "one more thing" speech prepared but scrapped it for "the rumor mill spoiled our surprise, but try to look delighted when I say 5K iMac."
Will iTunes begin to offer 4K content for sale so that you can at least have something on it to watch that takes advantage of the screen?
Quite.
In Steve Jobs's day, he would have announced the release of 4k content on the same day, thereby surprising and delighting us.
Alas, the golden days are past, which means we have to make do with raising an eyebrow and being relieved that things could be worse.
Can't wait to see benchmarks comparing the i5/i7 and the GPUs.
Looks like everybody missed the point of the hardware being the same as last year, most spectacularly you.
Apple was able to increase the resolution to 5K, to drive that many more pixels, without having to change any of the hardware elements inside, meaning the power supply, the backlighting, the heat management , etc., because of the efficiency of the oxide backplane for the LCD display. It uses 30% less power, Phil said, but whether that means "less than the previous display" or "than if it were not an oxide 5K display" remains to be clarified, to me at least. Or maybe the backlight uses 30% less power, due to the reduced conductor profile.
Anyway, it's all about electron motility in that combination of elements, which I assume are indium, gallium, and zinc oxide. Your "manufacturing buzzword" IGZO bears watching, because it will extend the useful lifetime of the LCD display at large, dense sizes as we wait for OLED to get its blue pixel act together. Physics are a trip; you should look into it sometime.
Hm, has anybody pointed out the little surprise on the back panel...
I can't remember they've mentioned it was 'Assembled in the USA'?
Apple's webpage for the Retina iMac is very cool. As you try to scroll down it actually zooms you out...
I can't remember they've mentioned it was 'Assembled in the USA'?
Yeah, when they switched to this case a year or whenever ago it started being assembled here.
Apple's webpage for the Retina iMac is very cool. As you try to scroll down it actually zooms you out...
I went to the site to see what you were talking about, then I spotted this image:
What? 080p?
Where do you see that? This is what I see at: http://www.apple.com/imac-with-retina/
Apple's webpage for the Retina iMac is very cool. As you try to scroll down it actually zooms you out...
I went to the site to see what you were talking abou
Where do you see that? This is what I see at: http://www.apple.com/imac-with-retina/
Maybe my Safari 5.1.10
oh, look -- another ghost channeler. tell us, oh lord of the dead, what else would jobs have done? you must have known the man well.
Once, only once, in the first month after his death did the executives of Apple hold a seance to contact Steve Jobs.
Jony, Phil, Tim, and the rest sat around a Ouija board in the dark and at exactly midnight it began to spell out...
“Guys, what did I ~tell~ you to do? Come on, now...”
OK, here is a question to anybody who does have some idea - I do not need a Mac right now, but I am ready to take the plunge and get the 5K iMac. The question is, how much of a difference would Broadwell make as opposed to Haswell (that is currently used I think)?
Is it worth waiting for a refresh, or will there not be much difference performance-wise? I plan on getting the Quad-core i7 4GHz model. If I was to run FCP X, would I really see much difference? What exactly are we expecting with Broadwell?
I wouldn't be so bold as to name myself 'Lord of the Dead', but I will let you know what else Jobs would have done in due course, as you are so eager to know. I look forward to regaling you with those things.
I think this means the next update will be next Summer - Skylake, Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1.
Broadwell was more about power savings anyway, which isn't as critical in an iMac. Right?
As usual, buy it now if you need it now.
Broadwell was more about power savings anyway, which isn't as critical in an iMac. Right?
From Marvin's post in the Retina MacBook Pro thread: Broadwell is quite impressive.
So I clearly don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe it's too soon to say they'll skip Broadwell for Skylake.
Maybe it's too soon to say they'll skip Broadwell for Skylake.
Look, this sounds terrible, but whatever gets an nVidia 9xx series chip into a Mac (or a TDP and power-comparable ATI chip) is fine by me. I'll let the Hackintoshers do their thing and I'll get a GeForce 970 for my Mac Pro.