Opinions of 5k screen on the new imac.

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Hi all! So what does everyone thing about the newly announced 5k panel? is it 60hz or 30hz? Does it has multiple panels built in like the dell did or one single 5k panel?

It is either powered by the mobile 290x or m295x which is obviously going to make it pretty useless for any gpu intensive tasks at the full resolution I assume?

Thoughts people?!
 
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30Hz??? You crazy. It will be 60hz at least. It will no doubt be fine for Mac-stuff, but you wont be gaming at 5k on it no. Kind of surprised really at the 5k retina.
 
its frustrating to see apple can supply the whole imac 5k $2500, yet most 4k pc monitors are more expensive, hopfully this will shake up the market
 
its frustrating to see apple can supply the whole imac 5k $2500, yet most 4k pc monitors are more expensive, hopfully this will shake up the market

imac for $2500 may have a 5 k screen but the rest of it could have been higher spec at that price . i mean an i5 and only 8gb ram and a fusion drive rather than a SSD

don't get me wrong i love mac computers and i use a macbook pro 15 inch (i7) and love it but thats a lot of cash
 
Pretty interested by this tbh. OSx scales well with resolution so will look amazing, pity that it wont be up to much for gaming as with most other retina stuff
 
Yeah I mean this Imac has almost 4x more pixels then standard imacs so for it to even run the same you would need everything else to be almost 4x quicker which obviously isn't the case ! I just want to know more details about the panel used
 
It's got a single thunderbolt input for data apparently and uses what PCPer described as a single overclocked DisplayPort (via the thunderbolt) for 5k at 60Hz. Not sure if I believe that part, they had no sources and the iMac is likely using the Dell 5k monitor which has MST with dual DisplayPort for 5k, 60 Hz.
 
For display and basic work, sure. But the display itself doesn't sound great for professionals needing wide color gamut.
 
I was a bit suspicious of 5k at first but it works out at exactly double the resolution of a 1440p display which should make desktop scaling far less of an issue since apps which don't support it can be scaled exactly to 2x their previous size.

I'd still never buy one though as I couldn't bear the thought of having such a nice display that doesn't have any inputs for other devices on it.
 
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