Gadgetory

now the iMac has been the gold standard of desktops for many years but we're going to raise the bar once again and as always on the iMac it starts with the display because the 4k and 5k retina iMac displays with their high resolution excellent brightness and P 3 color gamut are the best displays on any desktop but we're going to make them even better so these new displays are now going to be 500 nits that's 43% brighter than the previous generation and for the first time we're going to support 10 bit dithering which means these displays can reproduce up to a billion colors so your content is going to look more true to life than ever before now in addition we've got some great internal updates for these IMAX so we'll start with the CPU because the whole line is moving to Intel's 7th generation Core processor also known as KB Lake now KB Lake gets us better base in turbo frequencies for more performance as well as hardware base 10 bit HEV C decode which is great for playing back high quality video in addition these eye mechs are getting a boost when it comes to memory capacity so the 21.5 inch systems can now be configured with up to 32 gigs of memory and the 27-inch can go all the way up to 64 gigabytes of memory both of those are twice what the previous generation could do now fast storage has always been a key part of the iMac and so we're going to now make our fusion drive standard on all 27-inch configs and it's also going to be standard on the high-end 21.5 inch config as well in addition our SSD options are going to be up to 50% faster and now available up to 2 terabytes and the IMAX are getting an i/o upgrade as well because we're giving them two USB C connectors which support Thunderbolt 3 and we think our customers especially our pro users are really going to love this because you can do some cool things like hook up a high performance raid array and an external 5k display at the same time so now let's talk about graphics and as you heard earlier we're investing heavily in graphics software technologies like metal - well we're also investing in graphics hardware and every configuration in this new iMac line is going to get a big bump in its graphics performance so we'll start with the entry-level iMac now they system gets a boost in its integrated GPU by way of Intel's Irish Plus graphics which now has 64 megabytes of video RAM and the performance that we're getting out of this is pretty amazing because this system is up to eighty percent faster in graphics than the previous generation now next up is the 21.5 inch iMac with retina 4k display and the big news here is that we're going to be moving to discrete graphics and making it standard on all 4k IMAX and that's going to come there you go and that's going to come in this Radeon Pro Series GPUs with up to 4 gigabytes of vram and again this moved to discrete graphics yields a pretty spectacular performance increase because this new system is up to three times faster than the previous generations of graphics now lastly we have our 27-inch iMac and this is our most popular desktop for our pro customers so obviously it's going to get a bump in graphics today as well so it's going to have these Radeon Pro 500 series GPUs with up to 8 gigabytes of vram and again we get a great performance uplift in fact this 27-inch iMac can now deliver up to five-and-a-half teraflop of graphics compute and to recap they have the best Mac displays we've ever made faster processors higher memory capacity super fast storage Thunderbolt 3 and as you saw incredible graphics performance so here's the line and but there's one more change because we're going to bring even more value to the iMac product line for the first time ever we're going to have a 4k iMac that starts at just $12.99