Back to dropped frames, spinning wheels, and waiting for files to copy from one place to another.įor $2,499 and up, this is Apple’s newest desktop: it’s designed for photographers and videographers and anyone who wants to look at their computer a little differently. Back to only having enough screen space to do two things at a time. Back to a world where pixels are visible on any screen, even one this big. It only took about ten minutes of using Apple’s new iMac with Retina display to make me wonder how I’m ever supposed to go back. Remember the first time you used a capacitive touchscreen, threw your 56k modem out the window and switched to broadband, or switched from standard-def TV to 1080p? I drove an Audi and never looked at my Saturn the same way again. When I first grabbed my friend’s BlackBerry because I needed to answer an email, I knew instantly I wasn’t going back to texting with T9. Once I started wearing good, expensive headphones, I suddenly couldn’t even tolerate Apple’s EarPods anymore. This model has a 27' 2560x1440 LED-backlit 16:9 widescreen IPS display with the 'cover glass fully laminated to the LCD and anti-reflective coating.' The rear of the case is aluminum and is thicker in the middle and tapers to a razor thin 5 mm at the edges.Ĭonnectivity includes four USB 3.0 ports, dual Thunderbolt ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n compatible), and Bluetooth 4.0.Ĭompared to its predecessor, this model essentially has the same external enclosure, but it has a much more efficient 'Fourth Generation' processor and architecture, as well as faster graphics, faster Wi-Fi, and the option of faster storage.ĬRACKED IN TOP PART OF SCREEN - SEE PHOTO.Every once in a while, a gadget completely resets the curve. It also has a built-in 'FaceTime HD' webcam and stereo speakers, but lacks an optical drive. The iMac 'Core i7' 3.5 27-Inch Aluminum (Late 2013/Haswell) features a 22 nm 'Haswell' Quad Core 3.5 GHz Intel 'Core i7' (4771) processor with four independent processor cores on a single chip, an 8 MB shared level 3 cache, 8 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-12800) installed in pairs (two 4 GB modules), a 1 TB (7200 RPM) hard drive (or a 3 TB 'Fusion' Drive for the standard MF125LL/A configuration), and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M graphics processor with 2 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory.

Other than processor (and the corresponding level 3 cache), these two models can be identical.

The iMac 'Core i7' 3.5 27-Inch Aluminum (Late 2013) originally was offered as a 'configure-to-order' configuration of the iMac 'Core i5' 3.4 27-Inch Aluminum (Late 2013), but was sold as a standard configuration, too.

Imac 27 late 2013 review