and starts at $1,799. Apple bumped up a bunch of the hardware inside, but also focused on a few things that I think are really important for people and families who are stuck working at home during quarantine.
If you're like me, you may have been working from a laptop for the past few months. I ended up going out and splurging on a couple of monitors so I can work more efficiently. But, I turned on this 27-inch 5K iMac last night and realized, dang, maybe this is the sort of computer I should be using instead. I love the huge display. which is much easier to work with than scanning across two monitors, and it's noticeably faster than the Macbook Air I've been using.
I can also definitely tell the difference between this 5K screen and my 1080p screens, which aren't as sharp and look a lot more washed out than the colors on this iMac. But, if you've used a 5K iMac before, the colors and sharpness will look the same to you. The auto-white balance adjustments with TrueTone is a nice new feature that I've come to rely on on my MacBooks — it just makes the whites a bit softer to look at and matches your room environment on the fly.
Apple tweaked the camera software so that your face is always in focus, even if you move it around the screen, and it does a good job keeping you well-lit even in a relatively dark environment. That's important, say, when you're on a video chat with your team during a cloudy day and don't want it to look like you live in a cave.The speakers are pretty incredible. Again, I didn't use prior iMacs so perhaps this is standard, but they sound so much better than laptop speakers.
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robotodd so it brews coffee, and knows it's wrong to add sugar or cream to coffee?