Apple has announced the launch of a new Retina iMac with eye-popping 5,120 x 2,880 resolution and 14.7 million pixels. The company is terming its iMac display as “world’s highest resolution display.”
“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 vice president 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.”
Apple in a statement said that the new iMac has 67% more pixels than a 4K display and four times more pixels than the standard 27-inch iMac. The notes that it new iMac uses highly efficient LEDs and organic passivation to improve image quality and reduce display power consumption by 30%.
To produce better contrast ratio the new device uses a photo alignment process and a compensation film which according to the company can deliver perfect blacks and more vibrant colours from any viewing angle. In addition, every iMac with Retina 5K display is calibrated using three state-of-the-art spectroradiometers to ensure precise and accurate colour says the company.
Other specifications of the device include 3.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9GHz, upgradable to quad-core i7, AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics (upgradable to AMD Radeon R9 M295X graphics), 8GB of memory and a 1TB Fusion Drive which is also upgradable up to 32GB of memory, a 3TB Fusion Drive, or up to 1TB of PCIe-based SSD storage.
The new iMac with 5K display come with two Thunderbolt 2 ports that deliver up to 20Gbps each, 4 USB 3.0 ports, SDXC slot, Gigabit Ethernet, and a headphone slot.
iMac running OS X Yosemite also comes preloaded with apps like iMovie, GarageBand and the suite of iWork, the company is also bundling the device with Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Magic Mouse.
