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The best all-in-one there is, now in both 4K and 5KLast year's iMac brought the Retina display to Apple's desktop product line in dramatic fashion. The 27-inch 5K screen was a jaw-dropping addition that made the all-in-one impossible to look away from. An...
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computershopper.com Updated: 2017-01-06 03:01:37
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Not so much, here in late 2015. UltraHD TVs and 4K monitors are becoming increasingly common, and the screen on Apple's 27-inch ( "Ginormous," in Apple-speak ) iMac all-in-one computer has a whopper of a 5K panel. Sony even recently jammed a 4K display in...

Stunning, pixel-dense 4K display, Bundled peripherals are now rechargeable, Very good performance for an all-in-one...

Hard drive in entry-level model makes for slow bootup, occasional sluggishness...

With a pixel-dense 4K display, refined design, and now-rechargeable peripherals, Apple's $1,499 compact iMac is an eye-pleasing, premium computing machine. (As good as it is, just know that the larger-screen 5K model doesn't cost that much more.) Read Mo...
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Apple's marketing team didn't need to dig deep to dream up a campaign for the new 21.5‑inch iMac with Retina 4K display —its best feature is in the name. The stellar ultra high-resolution screen mates well with Apple's chosen internals, but it would have...

4K Retina display with P3 color gamut, Powerful internals, Small footprint...

5,400 rpm HDD is a snail, Price borders on 27inch 5K iMac, Slight backlight bleed at screen periphery...

The 4K iMac's main draw is its gorgeous Retina display. For desktop users interested in having the best display around, the 21.5-inch 4k iMac is an easy recommendation with one caveat: it needs the HDD upgrade. An SSD would be preferable, obviously, but...
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The Mac is a small fraction of Apple's total business, and of that, roughly three-quarters of the Macs sold are laptops. Apple could probably be forgiven if it put the entire iMac line into maintenance mode: after all, sometimes it seems like that's what...

Gorgeous Retina screen, Thunderbolt 2 support...

Fast flashstorage available as an option, Hampered by slow 5200 rpm hard drive, Discrete GPU available only as configuration option, Uses previous generation Intel chipset...

The 5K iMac is an incredible computer, one of the best Macs ever made—but it's also just too much for many people. A 27-inch display can dominate a desk or a room, and though the price tag has come down a lot in the past year, it's still on the pricey...
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Andrew CunninghamThe new 4K iMac hooked up to an external 4K display.Andrew CunninghamThe new 4K iMac hooked up to an external 4K display.Andrew CunninghamThe back of the iMac. It really does look exactly like the non-Retina models.Andrew CunninghamNearly...

Gorgeous screen with an improved color gamut, Retina scaling modes let you use the 21.5-inch iMac to display as much information as the 27-inch iMac, a nice feature for people without much space, Quad-core Broadwell CPUs aren't the newest on the block but...

No dedicated GPU options, and the integrated GPU chugs if you increase the resolution or hook up another 4K display, No user-accessible RAM (or any user-accessible parts, really), No Thunderbolt 3 or USB Type-C, No Target Display Mode, Putting all the por...
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4k.com
Updated: 2017-06-11 02:35:58
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As we can pretty much expect of any Apple product and especially of any high-end Apple computing device, the 4K iMac is a fantastic performer on the whole. Its new single-fan cooling arrangement not only keeps the machine's temperature lower than what was...

Superb color rendering with DCI-P3 color space, Fast, powerful machine for most uses, Beautiful design, Wonderfully quiet, cool running, Decent price tag, 9.4 million pixels, El Capitan OS X works great with 4K display...

No HDMI connectivity, Uses slightly older Intel processing chip architecture, No discrete Graphics card technology, Storage memory could have been more advanced...

While we consider Apple's 5K Retina iMac to be the superior machine overall, the new 4k iMac has plenty going for it and comes at a relatively reasonable price for a piece of Apple technology with such a superb integrated True 4K display. On the whole, i...
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The Apple iMac all-in-one (AIO) has long been the darling of photographers and videographers, thanks to its combination of sleek design, excellent performance, and its affinity with content-creation tools like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere. For...

Bright 4K Retina display, DCI-P3 color gamut, New rechargeable wireless peripherals, Includes Lightning cable...

No discrete graphics option, Base hard drive is only 5,400rpm, Headset jack and SD card slot are on back panel...

With a new Retina display, the latest Intel Core I CPU, and faster memory, the latest 21.5-inch Apple iMac is a very attractive option if you're creatively inclined and have limited space and/or funds...
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