About a month ago, Apple launched the all-new iMac and unlike previous model, it comes with retina display technology. This ensures that the machine offers a screen that is sharper, more powerful, more vivid and more energy saving.
Despite that fact, we didn’t actually felt anything worth being excited about with the iMac Retina when testing the product out. Yes, it now have a nicer display but that’s just about it. There is nothing else the iMac Retina can flaunt aside from being an improved version of its predecessors.
Even with a more powerful display, the iMac is still short in many departments with the Retina technology. For starters, the screen can’t act as an external display and can’t drive external display of equal resolution. In detail, the DisplayPort 1.2 spec is not compatible to play 5K resolutions. Also, Apple equipped the iMac with a timing controller which ensures that the display continuously runs at 60Hz.
Now, Apple is always known to look far ahead in the future but the iMac Retina seems to be a lacklustre performance. 5K resolution might not be the in-thing yet but when it arrives, the iMac Retina will not be ready at all. The solution is with the DisplayPort 1.3, which should have been on the machine.
On another note, the Retina display somehow affects the performance of the new iMac. We discovered that the machine runs sluggishly whenever the GPU is put under heavy load. This is another segment which Apple needs to address.
Aside from all that, the iMac Retina is simply a splendid desktop overall. The machine ensures that users get the best productivity and viewing pleasure when doing some video editing with the iMac Retina.
