5K Screen New imac evaluation

Last month, Apple held its new launch again. Since Apple has just released the iphone, even though there has been anecdotal news that Apple will launch a new ipad Air 2 at the press conference, it is true that the enthusiasm is not really high. However, it is such a not too much "looking" at the press conference, the Apple 5K resolution screen of the new imac's appearance, grabbed the ipad Air 2 a lot of thunder.

We are not saying that the ipad Air 2 is bad, but just a little bit faster is no longer enough to mobilize enthusiasm. In contrast, the new 27-inch imac, with no change in appearance, is more eye-catching than the 5K screen with a 5120x2880 resolution.

I remember the first Apple in the computer products to take the resolution is a MacBook Pro. At that time, MacBook Pro used the retina Retina screen for the first time, the resolution reached 2880x1800, is four times times the original. While the visual experience of the Mac is almost perfect thanks to the ingenious scaling technology of Apple's system, the "radical" performance of Apple has also caused a lot of trouble for other peripheral devices and third-party applications.

And for the new 27-inch imac, the time seems to be back. 5120x2880 resolution, 14.7 million pixels is not only 1080P Full HD screen pixel 7 times times more than the current popular 4K resolution more than 67%, with four times times the standard Model 27-inch imac display number of pixels. What does such a screen mean to us? What kind of surprise does the visual experience at 5K resolution bring?

Configuration, screen upgrade

As we have said, the new imac is still designed with a 27-inch design, but the thinnest frame with a thickness of only 5mm is designed to reach its highest level. Plus the screen equipped with a higher definition of the 5K Super clear screen, the resolution reached the 5120x2880, it can be said to be one of the most outstanding computer products.

Take a look at the performance section again. At present, the standard online models of Apple's China official network are equipped with 3.5GHZ Core i5 four processor, 8GB memory, 1TB Fusion drive hard disk and AMD Radeon R9 m290x graphics card memory for 2GB. This configuration runs at 12190 in Geekbench, a little higher than the 2013 models of the previous 3.4GHz four core Intel Core™ i5 processor, but not much, so the actual experience doesn't feel any different.

If you look at it separately from the hardware configuration point of view, the new imac is not much improved, and you can even ignore the little increment in the run. However, under almost identical hardware conditions, the 5K screen based on the OS X Yosemite system does not burden the whole machine. Through what we saw at the time of the Conference, the machine was very fluent in video clips, editing pictures, and so on.

　　Amazing 5K effect under Mac system

The new imac has the same screen size as the same 27-inch, although the resolution reaches the 5K level, but you must not think it will make the font very small when displayed. Because Apple uses the concept of "point" in its display, it outputs an image in the size area of a pixel in the original screen with a group of four pixels per pixel. Therefore, the new imac in the MAC system image display size is actually the same as the previous version, similar to the size of the 2560x1440 resolution, but in fact, whether the font or image details are four times times the original, fine degree can be said to reach the near perfect level.

But if you look at the parameters, the new imac's PPI (the number of pixels per inch) is only 217, not just below the ipad Air 2 264 PPI, but also below the 13-inch MacBook Pro 232 PPI, not even the iphone, but because of the distance you use to watch the phone, Flat-Panel products all the difference, so even if the value is low, it does not affect the actual viewing effect. In fact, even if you deliberately "paste" the eyes on the screen, it is really difficult to distinguish a single pixel.

As for how Apple will screen specifications to achieve 14.7 million pixels, 5K level resolution of the problem I do not want to say here, nothing more than the adoption of a special timing controller (TCON), "Organic passivation" (organic passivation) technology, etc. But these obscure technical details are not our concerns. And relatively speaking, this 5K display can do? What's the effect? That's the last thing we care about. Let's take a look at the actual screenshot below.

System interface

Through the above screenshot can be seen, the actual display of the new imac screen size and the same as the previous generation of products, although the resolution is greatly improved, but this does not make the icon in the picture smaller, and the delicate degree of the screen even if not careful observation can make you at a glance.

Of course, because it is a 27-inch screen, you can completely put the Web page, QQ dialog box, micro-Letter Page dialog box all "Booth" on the desktop.

In fact, by default, this 5K screen of the new imac is the biggest difference from the previous generation's 27-inch screen, with a sharp increase in sharpness, an excellent visual experience, and no difference in usage.

4K Movie Display effect

1080P Video Display effect

　　Network Video effects

Another thing to say is that if you think it's better to see a movie on this 5K screen, you'll be disappointed. To put it simply, the clarity of the video is related to the quality of the video itself, and the imac on the 5K screen has no problem with the fluency of the 4K video, but the screen part is just a display device, which is not helpful for the improvement of the video image. What's more, because the screen resolution is too large, if you use this imac full screen to see 1080P video, there will be a certain stretching situation, but affect the viewing effect.

However, if you want to experience the real 5K effect, Apple also offers five zoom options for the screen. If you choose "More space", all the icons and text on the screen will become smaller. Of course, this benefit is only one, is to show more only, but may be professional video, image editing work efficiency to improve a lot of help.

　Windows is not recommended for use

Although I used to install Windows on more than one Apple laptop for work reasons, I've always had reservations about it. Even so, such things are actually happening every day, after all, for the vast majority of domestic ordinary consumers, the Windows system whether in the work or daily life in the popularity of much higher than the MAC system. The reason why everyone buys an Apple computer is not because Apple's system works well, but simply because it is an "Apple Computer".

In view of this, in order to let people see for themselves how the 5K resolution of the imac installed on the effect of windows, we might as well put a try. Although Microsoft's Windows 8/8.1 System is optimized for 4K, I insist on installing the most familiar Windows 7 operating system, given its low penetration rate.

The installation process is not complicated, and exactly the same as before, as long as the system prompts to operate in Bootcamp. However, after installing Windows 7, I found that the first thing that was not cool was that the touch scrolling of the Apple mouse occasionally failed.

Text zoom 100% Web browsing Effect

System installation, screen resolution will be set to the default 3840x2160, that is, the 4K level. However, at such a resolution, although the level of the icon is not a problem, but it is too small, including the various applications of the icon, Web browsing fonts and so on look very difficult.

With previous experience with the MacBook Pro retina, we usually choose to adjust the text scaling effect to 150% in this case.

Text zoom 150% Web browsing Effect

Text scaling 150% Application use effects

Obviously, after adjusting the settings, the icon display, Web browsing and other applications all look more normal, basic can be used normally. But there is actually a problem here, I found that the Start menu buttons, desktop icons, calculators and other applications such as Windows can be adjusted with the text scaling, and if you open a Third-party application, such as open QQ software, login interface, dialog box still text scaling 100% effect, Very laborious to use.

Through experience I found that in the Windows environment, the new imac 5K screen does not bring us an image of the beautiful picture, even through text scaling can alleviate the text display, but the enlarged font is not only ugly, but also in some applications in the display position will appear in different degrees of problems, It's a bit difficult to use it properly.

Of course, if you want to try it out. Windows 8.1, which boasts better optimizations for high-resolution screens, is only raised to 200% in terms of text scaling, but although it does look a lot better, there are problems with Third-party applications, browser applications, and so on. It's not very cool to use.

Summarize

It is undeniable that for this imac with 5 k resolution screen, whether it is from the display effect, or hardware configuration, it represents the current integration of the computer at the highest level of integrated display, not one. But have to say, in the current can adapt to 5K screen applications do not much, 4K video is not universal, this product is not suitable for ordinary users.

So anyway, who is this product sold to? In fact, only from the angle of 5K ultra-high resolution screen, it is an absolutely professional graphics workstation. Therefore, if you often need to deal with high-quality 4K pictures, CAD graphics files, or professional video editing workers, this product should be able to meet all your requirements. Of course, if these you are not, just be rich, think 17988 yuan buy a computer is not too big problem, also can consider.

The article finally advised two types of people do not buy: One is the money in the pocket, want to buy a 5K screen of the imac installed Windows, the second is to buy this screen-level imac to see the film will be clearer people, bought really will regret.