27" iMac w/ Retina Display (5k Monitor)

Some penises and vaginas shouldn't be seen at that resolution.

Probably $2999

Probably $5k

And I still have 1080...

Dell $480 UHD

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$3300 at a minimum seems a little steep. I don't think they are going to tack $1500 onto the price of a 27" iMac for Retina. If you look at the difference between a 13" MB with and without Retina, it's only a few hundred difference. I look for it to be $2500 to $3000.

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Here's the basis of my estimate:

The current price of a 27" 1440P iMac starts at $1799.

It uses the same panel as Apple's $999 Thunderbolt Display.

Adding up the OEM/retail values of the rest of the components and Apple's general premium (I actually did this in another thread), $799 for the hardware and chassis design is reasonably close enough to component value of the rest of the system.

Around the same time, Dell displayed its equivalently beautiful ultrasharp 1440P 27" display for the same price, though it has since dropped in price while the price of the Apple monitor remains the same.

Similarly, Dell is set to unveil a 5K ultrasharp next month, and a press release confirms a $2,499.99 price tag.

If the Apple sets a similar price for this 5k display, which will no doubt use the exact same panel as the Dell and therefore carry the same production cost outside of the stand/bezel, it's reasonable to predict that $2,499 + $799 would be ballpark starting MSRP. That's a conservative guess, because they're probably going to have to amp up the GPU beyond a paltry single mid-range mobile Kepler to run that monitor at 5120 x 2880.

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That's a conservative guess, because they're probably going to have to amp up the GPU beyond a paltry single mid-range mobile Kepler to run that monitor at 5120 x 2880.

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I don't know man, if phones can push 1440p now on a tiny battery, I would think that 5k would be relatively easy on a desktop, possibly even without a discrete GPU.*

*I really don't know what I'm talking about so feel free to rip me to shreds.

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They are going to want the imac to do more powerful things than phones though.

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Isn't that where the Intel CPU comes in?

Bump...

Ended up at $2500. I'm kinda shocked

Do iMacs typically get the chip upgrade when they come out? That's the one I might wait for. Not that I'm getting a 5k display though. Regardless of the tech, the price tag wouldn't justify what I would use it for.