Eye fatigue is reduced, and on-screen reading becomes much more enjoyable. Reading text, writing documents, browsing sites and even balancing a spreadsheet are all enhanced by just how crisp everything looks.

That may not sound like a big leap, but five minutes in front of one and it’s clear that no other screen will look the same again – it is like night and day. The 5K screen makes everything appear as sharp as we are used to on our smartphones and tablets. If you compare a smartphone such as an iPhone 6 or a Samsung Galaxy S5 to a regular computer monitor or laptop screen there is a clear difference in the clarity and sharpness of images, text and icons. For everything else, it’s about how crystal clear the screen looks and what that does to the computing experience. This is the same system Apple has been using on its iPhones, iPads and retina MacBook Pros for years.Īrguably the 5K screen is designed for editing 4K video and 8-megapixel images at full size while still having tools, timelines and scrubbers on-screen at the same time. The text remains the same size on screen but is pin sharp. For text, however, four pixels are displayed for everyone one defined by the site. Photos and video is played at native resolution. The iMac automatically detects the type of content on screen and displays it at the correct resolution.

But those are just numbers, what it really means is that the screen is super crisp as sharp as a modern smartphone screen. That is seven times the number of pixels on screen compared to a 1080p full HD television screen. The new iMac has a 5K screen, exactly double the resolution of the non-5K 27in iMac, with 5120 x 2880 pixels. Tilting the screen is the only adjustment possible with the default stand.

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