Posted November 6, 201410 yr Unless and until the Retina 5K iMac is ignited, you’d be hard-pressed to tell it apart from last year’s model. It’s got the same design, almost all-display design, and the same razor-thin edge that makes it, from some angles, almost impossible to believe Apple managed to cram a computer inside. When you do ignite it though, when those 14,745,600 pixels fire up, everything changes. The iPhone going Retina was a revelation. Pixels — the building blocks of computer displays — disappeared, and only clean, crisp text and images remained. It was like going from blocky to smooth, from newsprint to magazines. When the iPad went Retina that experience scaled from 3.5 to 9.7 inches, and when the MacBook Pro went Retina, it scaled again to 15. Pixels, the filter through which most of us had always experienced computing, were literally gone from sight. Except on the desktop. Retina is hard. It took Apple until 2011 to be able to push 614,400 pixels on the iPhone, 2012 to be able to push 3,145,728 on the iPad and 5,184,000 on the MacBook Pro. It took until 2014 — until now — to push 14,745,600. And it took breaking all the conventional rules. So, is Retina 5K worth it? You'll have to read our review to find out. Continue reading...
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