“The latest 27-inch 5K iMac looks like its predecessors of years past, yet it packs enough innovation in display technology as well as power under the hood to be the most powerful Mac ever built,” Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla writes for Canadian Reviewer. “That is, until the Darth Vader-inspired iMac Pro finally ships at the end of the year.”
“Out of the box, the 5K iMac comes with a plug, the latest Apple Magic keyboard and mouse. That’s it. Plug the iMac and within 20 seconds you’re on you’re way. It’s been a while since I considered working on a desktop (oh, I do have one, but I don’t enjoy using it), this quickly changed with the 5K iMac,” Sevilla writes. “Once I entered my @icloud [information]… I suddenly had access to all the latest files and documents that I was working on in my daily driver MacBook. Talk about seamless… There’s absolutely no way you would experience this ease of use on Windows 10. Not with the endless necessary updates you need to install plus the hours worth of work just to delete included bloatware.”
“The large, immersive 27-inch display is so detailed and crisp that it is a joy to behold,” Sevilla writes. “The 27-inch Apple iMac with Retina 5K Display is singular in offering the very best performance combined with display innovation on an all-in-one Mac desktop today.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Seamless. Unmatched ease-of-use. Innovative. A joy to behold. The very best performance…
Sounds like somebody who’s used to Windows PCs just got a nice big glass of crystal clear ice water.
SEE ALSO:
Macworld reviews Apple’s new Kaby Lake iMac: ‘Now’s the time to do some shopping’ – June 26, 2017
Geekbench: Apple’s new 27-inch iMac benchmarks – June 21, 2017
CNET reviews Apple’s new 27-inc iMac: ‘Apple doesn’t mess with success’ – June 21, 2017
The 2017 iMac 5K’s Pro 580 GPU versus previous iMac 5K and GeForce GTX 1070 – June 16, 2017
Apple’s new iMac is the best all-in-one yet — and the best Mac ever – June 14, 2017
My 27″ is a month old now and I’m still blown away by the performance, screen and beautiful design.
It’s worth every penny.
I agree. the GPU that I got delivers very fast view port performance in Modo. I expected it to be good, but not this good. I also have never had a computer with 40GB of RAM. I can have everything open and not miss a beat.
I’m getting ready to order a 27″ with the i7 processor, 580 graphics, 512 SSD and 8GB Ram. I will get two 16GB sticks from Other World Computing for a lot less money. This will be great for Lightroom and Photoshop, and a big upgrade from my trusty early 2011 MacBook Pro.
cough up the bucks for a sleek, quiet, fast, crystal clear iMac and you’ll never look back.
oh, and five years later you’ll be happy as a clam. My tricked out late 2012 non-retina 27″ iMac is still a beautiful workhorse.
My iMac will still be perfectly fine, but I’m going to treat myself to a iMac Pro in the spring……. $5k? so what, it’s worth it.
I bought a 21.5″ 4k (w/ i7 and SSD) last month, I don’t want it larger. The crisp screen and its colours are absolutely gorgeous.
The only thing I deeply regret is not buying the larger keyboard (actually, I forgot to order it). While I like the clickyness of the keys, I absolutely hate the cursor keys, they give absolutely no help in orientation when operating “blindly”. I tried for weeks but I have given up, I’m using my former iMac keyboard now.
I swapped the stock keyboard for an extended one about 2 weeks after I bought my iMac. Apple Store happily did the exchange and I just paid the difference. Might be worth a try?