Apple iMac 5K retina - ideal for 4K video editing?
[09:55 Fri,17.October 2014 by Rudi Schmidts]
Apple introduced yesterday before a new 27-inch iMac, which already sounds on paper rather predestined for 4K video processing due to its 5K displays. And how sometimes at new Apple designs, the price for the whole package looks not at times exaggerated. If you look at the market in a way, only Dell has already www.slashcam.de/news/single/4K-was-yesterday - Dell UltraSharp 27-presents-Ultra-HD-11603.html ( a 5K Display announced), which probably uses the same panel as the new iMac. With a price of $ 2,500 but this is expected to cost as much as the entire iMac, the one to buy can already from next week. The innards of the 5K iMacs can be upgraded only limited due to the ultra-compact design, where there are only two processor variants to choose from. Depending on aQuad-core i5 or i7 Intel to choose from, which should already act hard on the limit in decoding of compressed h.264 footage in 4K in our experience. For 4K ProRes decoding could there still be a little more air. We would therefore in any case the additional cost of 250 euros to pay for the i7, as well as hyperthreading now in many applications really brings a gain in speed. To what extent in the compact Gehaeuse design of turbo can be extended constant in extreme cases, only practice will show can. Even when the graphics options it makes Apple a relatively easy. There are only 2.3 TFLOPS with 2 GB (R290X) or for 250 euros charge the R295X with 4GB and 3.5 teraflops. This power of the mobile R295X thus corresponds roughly to the desktop GPU from AMD 280X R9 or a GTX 970Nvidia and ranges in Premiere and Final Cut Pro in all probability also for several, smoothly concatenated 4K-effects. For Davinci Resolve the 4GB and 3.5 TFLOPS at 4K projects, however, are dimensioned already extremely scarce. When hard drives / SSD choice we would find the decision very difficult, because retrofitting is likely in principle possible, however, extremely fiddly and definitely not intended. However, external drives anyway likely to be practically unavoidable in 4K video applications. RAM can, however most probably retrofit easily yourself, as Apple speaks at the optional placement of benches. Soldered thus do not sound the blocks anyway. The maximum CPU and GPU expansion (the we would consider for even for sensible) you pay for the iMACSo at least (2599 + 250 + 250) = 3099 Euros. The available display environment is diffuse. If you want a 27-inch 4K display, this gets an IPS panel similar ahva ASUS supposedly very soon for 700 euros. True 4K IPS monitors in the 27-28 inch region still do not get it, however, useful 32-inch 4K-IPS panels are traded from 1,200 euros. And a comparable 5K display is as already mentioned for Dell $ 2500 appear soon. So if you just look for a display and will have immediate, get the new iMac quite guenstig to, but it can not be upgraded for future applications further. For current 4K editing in Premiere and Final Cut Pro X is likely the maximum expansion be sufficient for DaVinci and After more infos at bei www.apple.com
for 700 euros. True 4K IPS monitors in the 27-28 inch region still do not get it, however, useful 32-inch 4K-IPS panels are traded from 1,200 euros. And a comparable 5K display is as already mentioned for Dell $ 2500 appear soon. So if you just look for a display and will have immediate, get the new iMac quite guenstig to, but it can not be upgraded for future applications further. For current 4K editing in Premiere and Final Cut Pro X is likely the maximum expansion be sufficient for DaVinci and After 
more infos at bei www.apple.com
