Thursday, November 5

Mini-review: Test driving a fully loaded, $4,000 27-inch 5K iMac


A couple of weeks back we took a look at the new 21.5-inch 4K iMac. It’s a solid desktop with a great screen, though its default configuration leaves something to be desired (particularly its slow 5400RPM hard drive).

If you really ask a lot of your computing equipment, though, there’s still no substitute for the 27-inch 5K version. More divides the small and large iMacs than ever before: the 27-inch versions include new Skylake processors from Intel, while the 21-inch versions use the older Broadwell architecture. You can only get dedicated GPUs in the 5K iMacs. The Mac Pro is still Apple’s fastest Mac if your workloads routinely max out multiple CPU cores and GPUs, but for other power users and pros the 27-inch iMac is the one to get.

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