iMac 27-inch with Retina 5K Display: There’s More To What Apple Has Provided Us In Years

iMac 27-inch with Retina 5K Display: There's More To What Apple Has Provided Us In Years

iMac is catching up with Apple's screens that have retina high-resolution like those found in MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones.

The Apple website has introduced to the public their all-in-one desktop, Thursday. The device was, officially, called iMac with a Retina 5K display. This will be the company's representation of the high-resolution display, yet.

Here are the iMac's specs when compared with other 27-inch standard models, which are still available in the market:

Display: This iMac's Retina 5K's screen has a diagonal measurement of 27 inches and takes pride of its 5,120×2,880 pixels resolution. That is 14.7M pixels laid out all over the massive screen, which is seven times more than the 1080p HDTV. This, also, is 67% more than its latest 4K Ultra HD television sets. Apple has added that their new screen makes use of 30% less energy than those 27-inch regular iMac that has a 2,560×1,440 pixels resolution.

Ports: The iMac's output and input ports are the same with the other iMacs that has one gigabyte Ethernet port, one card slot of SDXC, four, three USB ports. Their differences include two Thunderbolt ports that could transfer data at the speed of 20 GB per second while all other marks can transfer data at 10 GB per second only.

Pricing and Options: Its base model is being sold at $2, 499 and bears features like AMD R9 M290X Radeon graphics card; 1TB storage; 8GB RAM; and a 3.5 GHz Intel quad-core i5 processor.

According to the Mac Rumors, for only $250 more, you could purchase an iMac Retina 5K that has a 4.0 GHz Intel quad core i7 CPU. For another $200, you will get a 16 GB RAM; and $600 more for 32 GB RAM. An upgrade to the AMD R9 M290X Radeon graphics card will cost you another $250.

If you will decide to have the fastest central processing unit, the most RAM as well as the fanciest GPU, the iMac Retina 5K will cost you $3, 599. The standard iMac 27-inch can be purchased at $1, 799 bearing features as 3.4 GHz Intel quad-core i5 CPU, 1TB storage, 8 GB RAM, and NVIDIA GTX 775M GeForce graphic card.   

 

 

 

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