iMac Retina 5K review

iMac Retina 5K review

iMac Retina 5K review

It seems to me on this Earth a few people who would not want to imagine iMac. At least judging by my social circle. A person cannot absolutely know why he this candy bar, and that he will do with it. For home or office, but want to iMac. It is easy to see why. First of all, it’s a work of art in the field of industrial design, one kind of which you can enjoy for hours. The device is extremely ergonomic and fit even in a small workplace. Front panel fascinates through its absolute plane, and the quality of the display iMac Retina 5K review is always consistent unsurpassed design computer. This year, Apple has gone further and introduced iMac with Retina-display, and that’s another story that I now tell you.

iMac Retina 5K review

iMac Retina 5K review

Externally Apple’s not changed at all, and it’s for the better. Last design was introduced in 2012 and is absolutely not lost its relevance. This solution is perfect for the home and office, for compact jobs over the sill and a spacious office desk. When you look at the computer in the front, the notorious 5 mm thick look very impressive, and the fact that by the middle of the computer greatly expands absolutely frustrating. Before power is no difference with the 2012 model, you will not see.

iMac Retina 5K review

It’s all the same Ethernet-2x, Thunderbolt 2-4xUSB port version 3.0, card reader and a combined audio jack, and on the opposite side of a single button – power. We should also note that DisplayPort-Thunderbolt-component connectors learned to work with monitors 4K, while ordinary iMac worked with only 2.5K. Front – HD-eye camera FaceTime, light sensor and indicator of the camera.

iMac Retina 5K review

iMac Retina 5K review

After turning right and starts “another story.” If previously issued picture corresponded unsurpassed design, but now Apple has gone far ahead, and give the picture a little more than a fully attracts attention. Device design iMac Retina 5K review fades into the background, and a perfectly flat front panel only adds to the fun of viewing images.

iMac Retina 5K review

As for me, iMac Retina – aesthetic pleasure in its purest form.

Display- iMac Retina 5K review

iMac Retina 5K review

Without exaggeration, the display is gorgeous. So gorgeous that on the Apple iMac Retina 5K review allocated under this separate page. It compiles the quintessence of excellent color reproduction, contrast, viewing angle and pixel density. Use a good quality IPS-matrix with advanced and absolutely uniform LED illumination. Resolution is, for a second, 5120 x 2880 pixels and a density ~ 218 dpi. And it’s about the same rate as in the MacBook with Retina-display, so that the people long ago dealing with ultra-high resolution, no luck – the effect of “wow” will be a little less. For the rest iMac Retina 5K review – a huge iPad on a stand. From what screen size is 27′, and the iMac c Retina now available only to the extent that impressions of hard with something to compare.

iMac Retina 5K review

iMac Retina 5K review

Each iMac individually subjected to the color calibration using three advanced spectroradiometers for accurate color output, so that such things even not worth mentioning. However, the factory setting displays Apple has always been close to the reference, but a larger number of pixels – that’s what’s really amazing.

iMac Retina 5K review

The practical application of such a display is very, very little. Pictures – just for fun, for customers looking ready to work, will not see those items on their FullHD-Montoro. Videography will also be pleased to use the iMac Retina 5K review to work, but it concerns small, not hardcore projects. Such computers even in the maximum configuration are not designed for heavy rendering. Besides, videography prefers solutions from NVIDIA for support uniform technology CUDA, which facilitates computer life during intensive tasks, and data monoblocks equipped graphics cards from ATI.

iMac Retina 5K review

But it turned out that way because ATI had a hand in his video card and provide work for such a display without division into two logical monitor. For middling iMac Retina 5K review is fine, in addition, because of the high-resolution video preview of Premier or Final Cut you can open in full size. The actual use of the display such permission we found in high-quality printing, which uses 300-600 dpi in print.

Apple claims that this display you just need to see and know, and then I completely agree.

iMac Retina 5K review

We turned on the test base version iMac Retina 5K review, its characteristics are as follows: the fourth generation of Intel Core i5 processor with a clock frequency of 3.5 GHz and faster Turbo Boost up to 3.9 GHz, 8 GB of RAM (two dice to 4 GB DDR3 memory 1600 MHz), the repository Fusion Drive 1TB, graphics AMD Radeon R9 M290X with 2 GB of memory GDDR5. Even the base model copes with its tasks. Do not feel that all the power given only to the display output to the monitor, on the contrary, this load is invisible. Here we must pay tribute – to make such a display to work, Apple had independently developed a controller with increased fourfold bandwidth (TCON), since the solution is not yet ready to let you fully enjoy the array of such authorization. With this new display consumes 30% less energy with a 4-fold increase compared to the pixel “normal” 27-inch iMac.

iMac Retina 5K review

All tasks iMac Retina 5K review perceived “Hurrah!” Including games. To our surprise, most modern supports 5K, for example, and Diablo III, Dota 2 easily opened in Retina-resolution. If the specification of the first was at the highest level, the Dota 2 does not look better than FullHD-screen – we got a detailed but poorly smoothed image. In your browser, problems can occur at a maximum resolution of only those adaptive websites that are scalable to any resolution of the display, such as Pinterest. In this case the screen displays with too much information for simultaneous processing. With video rendering iMac Retina 5K review coped better than ASUS G750 , which mounts one of our videographers and which seriously bypasses base iMac in characteristics.

Custom, top of the range of different processors, memory and graphics processor (Core i7, 32GB of RAM, up to 3 TB Fusion Drive or up to 1 TB SSD, graphics AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5). And the prices start from $ 2,500 and up to $ 4,400 for the most charged version iMac Retina 5K review.

iMac Retina 5K reviewiMac Retina 5K review

As already purchased, the manufacturer suggests replacing only memory, for it has 4 slots. Includes iMac Retina 5K review, as usual, the manufacturer offers a proprietary wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse. Last struck me as wildly comfortable, too low and flat. If someone needs to use this candy bar as an external monitor, then to him this trick will not work. It remains to understand who it is generally necessary to record this in the cons of the device.

Сonclusion – iMac Retina 5K review

If you have a chance to buy a computer for the money, it purchase for years to come. You have to understand that right now you do not get one hundred percent of the customer experience, “machine”, as too little content for ultra-high resolution. Do not try to manually scale the sites look better in their original size. But even now, the aesthetic pleasure from what he saw rolls. Popervoy need to take myself in hand and simply cease to consider the pixels. You say that the iMac Retina 5K review – contraption. In fact, no. For example, the monitor UltraSharp 27′ Ultra HD 5K from Dell with similar specifications will be available at the end of the year, and, according to preliminary data, its price is the same $ 2,500. So that high resolution is expensive – and from Apple for the money you get and still pretty powerful computer.

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