Apple’s matchless iMac with Retina 5K display is its most expensive ever
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“Apple yesterday launched its most expensive-ever iMac, the $2,499 iMac with Retina 5K display, a desktop that will appeal to not only professional creative customers but also well-heeled consumers who want the very best money can buy, analysts said,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld. “‘Clearly, it’s a good machine for creative professionals,’ said Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research, in an interview yesterday. ‘But it’s also for those where money is no object, who want a very good PC.’”
“‘It’s both a niche product and a premium mass-market product,’ said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. ‘It’s for professionals who don’t need the absolute best, like a Mac Pro, but also for prosumers who just want the best,’” Keizer reports. “Not surprisingly, Apple spent much of the iMac’s time in the spotlight yesterday touting the display, which offers 5120-by-2880-pixel resolution. ‘This is the world’s highest-resolution display,’ boasted Philip Schiller, Apple’s top marketing executive, who presented the 5K Retina iMac at Thursday’s event.”
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I’m in the market for a new computer. While still very productive with my early 2008 Mac Pro, it is beginning to slow down some. I looked at the new Mac Pro, because that is what I have always used for work – that is, the top of the line Macs with respect to speed, etc.
The current Mac Pro is just way too much muscle for me and way too expensive.
So I looked at the new iMac. And it fits exactly what I need. At close to the price I have always paid.
Now when to pull the trigger?
A Man With A Ph.D. 