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Welcome to the war room at NASA Goddard's space weather lab.
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I nominate this as The Single Greatest Browser Tab Ever Rendered. Because, yes, that's what you're looking at: one tab, stretched across three enormous displays. containing dynamic content. And not a single spinning beachball in sight.
I went for the cheap joke about 5K displays, but the funny thing is that these three huge HD screens, put together, have fewer than half of the 14.7 million pixels of the Retina iMac.
(This one is still way cooler, though…and you can drive it all from one MacBook.)
David Pierce:
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Most people I know who buy iMacs tend to keep them for longer than your average computer. Given that, if you’re in the market for a new iMac today and you can afford this one, you should absolutely buy the iMac with Retina display. There’s no question whatsoever that Retina is the future of the iMac, that developers will continue to up-res and support these gorgeous new displays. The iMac with Retina display is the rare gadget that will actually get better over time, as there are more things to do more beautifully.
For virtually every purpose, this machine is excellent: it’s powerful and attractive and well-suited to almost any task. Most importantly, it’s a genuine pleasure to use. The screen is so big, so deep, so vivid, that I find myself eschewing phone or tablet more than ever in favor of sitting down in front of this remarkable 27-inch display.
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via DF:
Marco Arment:
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Intel’s next CPU cores (Broadwell) are significantly delayed, so in the meantime, they released a few more high-end Haswell models. The Retina iMac’s 4 GHz option is the Core i7-4790K, which is currently the fastest CPU in the world for most single-threaded tasks.
Since the Xeons in the Mac Pro are based on the even older Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, they’ve been lagging behind even the previous iMacs for single-threaded apps. According to early Geekbench reports, the 4 GHz, 4-core Retina iMac appears to be 25% faster than the 6-core Mac Pro in single-threaded tasks and only about 15% slower in multi-threaded tasks. That’s incredible.
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