Apple Releases iMac With 5K Display, 15-Inch MacBook Pro With AMD R9 M370X

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  • therca
    This AMD graphics option looks almost like a downgrade form the (outdated but good) NVIDIA 750m. Would have really liked to see a 980m instead. I use a top-of-the-line Mac Pro with dual D700's at work and my video render times are only okay. Really not much better than my home hackintosh with a single GTX760 so it's hard to get excited about more OpenCL cards replacing arguably more powerful CUDA options.
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  • gggplaya
    The 5k display is about 14 megapixels. A normal 1080p display is about 2 megapixels. So that's a huge jump for photographers and desktop graphics publishers.
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  • dragonsqrrl
    This AMD graphics option looks almost like a downgrade form the (outdated but good) NVIDIA 750m.
    It's almost definitely not a downgrade, but I'm also curious as to why Apple chose it over a 950 or 960M. The truth is not much is known about the M370X, but what is known is that the M375 uses Cape Verde, which would make absolutely no sense if rumors of the M370X performing similarly to the 960M are true.

    Would have really liked to see a 980m instead.
    I think your expectations are out of line with reality.
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  • porsche73rs
    5K is not about staying ahead of the curve, it is so that user's working on 4K content can see the content + software menus. I don't think apple is using this resolution anticipating the next resolution standard to be 5k.
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  • ammaross
    Here's a non-saddled version of the panel: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/monitors/product-detail.html?oid=7130944#!tab=features
    On Amazon for ~$1200. That leaves ~$800 for the laptop-in-a-box parts, which isn't too bad of a sale.
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  • WinterCharm
    The R9M270X appears to be a Strato XT part. Totally new.
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  • dragonsqrrl
    15889583 said:
    The 5k display is about 14 megapixels. A normal 1080p display is about 2 megapixels. So that's a huge jump for photographers and desktop graphics publishers.

    Ya, it's almost a shame it's in an iMac, where the experience is limited by AMD's mobile dGPU's.
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  • washmc
    Those storage options seem quite out of place compared to the rest of the hardware...
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  • SirTrollsALot
    Only idiots buy Macs. So if you are fussing with components then I hate to say it "You know nothing Jon Snow".
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  • uglyduckling81
    Would have really liked to see a 980m instead.
    Once you applied the Apple Tax to a bit of hardware like that you would be looking to spend $200k for a 15" Laptop with an annoying OS and iTunes.
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