19 October 2014

Apple launches the iMac with Retina 5K display, its highest resolution display ever

Move over, 4K. While the industry is still rolling out displays with at least 4,000 pixels on one side, Apple has gone 5K.

Source: Apple.
The company has unveiled the 27" iMac with Retina 5K display, featuring the world’s highest-resolution display — with 14.7 million pixels. At this resolution, text appears sharper, videos are more lifelike, and there are new levels of detail in photos, the company said.

“Thirty years after the first Mac changed the world, the new iMac with Retina 5K display running OS X Yosemite is the most insanely great Mac we have ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing. “With a breathtaking 14.7-million-pixel display, faster CPU and graphics, Fusion Drive, and Thunderbolt 2, it’s the most beautiful and powerful iMac ever.”

The iMac with Retina 5K display delivers a resolution of 5,120 x 2,880, four times more pixels than the standard 27" iMac and 67% more pixels than a 4K display. This means more details can be seen in high-resolution images. In apps like Final Cut Pro X, a user can view 4K video at full size while still leaving room for assets and editing tools.

The machine comes with a 3.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, and for the first time can be configured with a 4 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.4 GHz. Every new iMac with Retina 5K display also comes with AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics and can be configured with AMD Radeon R9 M295X graphics, delivering up to 3.5 teraflops of computing power, the most powerful graphics ever offered on an iMac. 

iMac with Retina 5K display comes standard with 8GB of memory and a 1TB Fusion Drive for the first time. The new iMac can also be configured with up to 32GB of memory, a 3TB Fusion Drive, or up to 1TB of super-fast, PCIe-based flash storage. In addition, iMac with Retina 5K display includes two Thunderbolt 2 ports that deliver up to 20Gbps each, twice the bandwidth of the previous generation.

Every new Mac comes with the new OS X Yosemite operating system, with new Continuity features that make working across Mac and iOS devices more fluid. OS X Yosemite is also engineered to take full advantage of the iMac’s Retina 5K display.

iMovie, a movie creation tool, GarageBand for making music, and the suite of iWork apps come free with every new Mac. iWork has been redesigned, and now has support for iCloud Drive and other features like a new comments view in Pages. iWork for iCloud beta lets you create your document on an iPad, edit it on your Mac and collaborate with friends on other platforms, such as a PC.

iMac with Retina 5K display with a 3.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics and a 1TB Fusion Drive for a suggested retail price of US$2,499*. Customers can order iMac with Retina 5K display through the Apple Online Store.

*US pricing. Prices may vary across other countries.