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Apple Unveils the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display


 

 

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Apple finally unveiled the much awaited 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display on Thursday.  The iMac features what apple is calling ”the world’s highest resolution display”

The iMac comes with 5120 x 2880 pixels of resolution which is more than the previous generation 27-inch iMac which came with a 2560 x 1440 pixel display.

“Thirty years after the first Mac changed the world, the new iMac with Retina 5K display running OS X Yosemite is the most insanely great Mac we have ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. He added that this is the most beautiful and powerful iMac ever.

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It comes with a 3.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, and for the first time can be configured with a 4 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.4 GHz. Every new iMac with Retina 5K display also comes with AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics and can be configured with AMD Radeon R9 M295X graphics, delivering up to 3.5 teraflops of computing power, the most powerful graphics ever offered on an iMac. iMac with Retina 5K display comes standard with 8GB of memory and a 1TB Fusion Drive for the first time.
The new iMac can also be configured with up to 32GB of memory, a 3TB Fusion Drive, or up to 1TB of super-fast, PCIe-based flash storage. In addition, iMac with Retina 5K display includes two Thunderbolt 2 ports that deliver up to 20Gbps each, twice the bandwidth of the previous generation.

The basic mode, priced at Rs.36,990, has a 1.4 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.7 GHz, 4GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000 and a 500GB hard drive. If you want more powerful hardware, then you will have to part with more cash.

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