Apple’s 2017 iMac features more powerful graphics, faster processors, Thunderbolt 3 and brighter displays
“The previous iteration’s 5K panel was already impressive, but the 2017 model is even better. Brightness rises to a ridiculous, retina-searing 527cd/m2, and the contrast ratio is 960:1, which makes for an amazing viewing experience. The display covers both the sRGB and DCI-P3 colour gamuts, and reproduces both to frankly staggering levels of accuracy,” Marzouk and Shepherd write. “Coming equipped with AMD’s Radeon Pro GPUs, the new iMacs have got some serious rendering power under the hood. Our test unit was fitted with the least-powerful Radeon Pro 570 GPU, but even that managed to blaze past last year’s most powerful model by a considerable distance in our benchmarks.”
Much more in the full review here.
MacDailyNews Take: Plus, it makes for a really, really nice Christmas present!
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Geekbench: Apple’s new 27-inch iMac benchmarks – June 21, 2017
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The 2017 iMac 5K’s Pro 580 GPU versus previous iMac 5K and GeForce GTX 1070 – June 16, 2017
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I really love mine paired with a 5K LG. Display is amazing. Love the fact that you can actually read the text in a pdf..from the icon preview, lol. Crazy
WHERE’S THE 32 OR 36″ SCREEN iMac.
Yeah an imac with an 35″- 43″ 4k-5k screen along with all the hardware uprades we have been hearing about would probably justify that $4,999 ridiculous starting price tag.
Still waiting for the iMac Pro… and new Mac Pro details.
You don’t need it. My 2017 i7 SSD iMac is almost overkill, and I work with audio and video.
I will be the judge of what I need. I work in 3D design.
I don’t work with audio and video and I need it. Audio and video. Some people work with processing large data sets, statistics, forensic data recovery, and other processor intensive activities. Even gamers might be interested.
I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of performance is achievable switching to Windows 10 Pro, LINUX or running all 3 OSes simultaneously while Windows runs on processes in the background.
Best computer I’ve ever purchased… the screen is off the charts crazy good and the speed is phenomenal.
I bought the mid range model and chucked an extra 32GB of RAM into it… this thing is the mutts nuts.
If you’re in the market for a new Mac, don’t hesitate.
I can say the same about the 21″ 4K iMac. The screen is soooooooo great.
Wow, a review of a 12 month old product.
Yeh, I mean the sheer nerve to give a product a thorough review. /s
Don’t get out much, eh?…
Ummm, six months – June 2017, according to MacTracker.
The iMac Pro is due this month, rumour has it they’ll drop it December 18th… iMac Pro page on Apple’s website says “available December”, something Apple already said months ago. And the Mac Pro will come in 2018, also announced, in Apple’s Q2 if I remember correctly.
All these comments spread out over and injected into unrelated stories are somewhat disingenuous if not outright whiny – the facts are out there, have been so for months.
However, I think its way overdue that Apple shows the Mac line a little love, so I understand the frustration, if not the whining.
The Mac Pro arguably proved Apple could innovate with the Mac, but the pressing question after all this time – four years (!?) – can they iterate?
This lack of movement hasnt hurt sales – Mac numbers are up – of the main line iMac and MacBooks. Adding an upgraded mini and hopefully new form-factored Pro probably wont move the numbers that much higher. But those numbers hide the number of customers lost to the “dark side” because of the vacuum created in the last few years by not only the Pro and mini missteps, but degenerate software updates or deletions. Apples leadership in creative software has eroded horribly, and though this segment is numerically negligible compared to the consumer market, it is a key factor in Apple’s perceived value.
Cheers!
dmz
Oh, yes, Apples mismanagement of Mac hardware has definitely hurt sales. Apple has less than 10% worldwide market share, which shows zero improvement over where Jobs left us.
You can’t retain leading computer users if you only update your hardware every 3-6 years.
As nice as the iMac screen may be, the all in one form factor sucks for people who need different display configurations or switchers who already own a display.
I would buy a modern Mac Pro if it was available. Or a mid range tower. But never an all in one. Things are even worse for Mini buyers. Greed-first Apple has let the Mini die on the vine in a crass attempt to force users to buy the iMac.
The Mac Mini is sporting processors that are FIVE generations old. But Apple won’t even lower prices over time to give users a reasonable value for their purchase. There is no excuse for this.
Slip sliding away, slip sliding away….
Well for once on MacNews consistent comments to those of my customers. If uncle Phil says that the new Mac Pro’s are going to be modular then lets hope its a bigger form factor than the (dust bin/darth Vader ..let also ho,e Apple are smart enough to come up with an propper name remember G4) The biggest hassle for future business users in the software is Apple move to SMB over AFP, move from permissions to ACL’s and the move to implement HFDP (hidden file damage protection) in 10.13 (when and if they do what they said they where going to do)
Oh, boring.