Apple's October 16th event: new iPads and 5k iMac

[13CA350]

I will be purchasing some new iPads this year

[13CA350]

Will IOS 8 have the same fate as Windows 8? 

 

iOS 8 is there best os yet, only complaints I've seen are from "Apple Haters"

[Nineshadow]

iOS 8 is there best os yet, only complaints I've seen are from "Apple Haters"

What are the differences?

[TroubleKlef]

What are the differences?

not sure about differences but some key features I'm looking forward to are Apple Pay and Continuity. 

[13CA350]

What are the differences?

 

Everything. Performance, features, look, plug-in's, widgets, higher 3rd party support, and a lot more

 

MKBHD's video: 

Apple's keynote: 

[Valentyn]

The 5K iMac is surfacing and the AMD m295X is a little beast of a GPU. It's getting 105fps in Cinebench on OS X.

For reference a GTX 780 Ti with 4770K overlocked to 4.5Ghz gets 112fps.

 

Considering the m295X is only $250 more, a $2750 iMac with 5K display and OpenGL performance essentially matching a GTX 780 Ti, it's a beast of a machine.

 

It looks like AMD finally stepped up and started getting their Mobile GPUs up to scratch.

 

 

 

Also here is a 3570K OC's to 5.1 Ghz with 290X OC'd to 1150Mz in Cinebench

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2002015/cinebench-r15-benchmark-thread.html

 

[SuperfastJellyfish]

Imagine if you take a laptop screen, and slap a mac mini on the back at the center, and put a curved back.

 

I don't really understand this comment. A 5k 27" laptop screen? The base 5k iMac has a i5-4670 (quad core), DDR3 RAM and an m290x. I don't see any Mac Mini's with those internals.

 

The highest configurable Mini has a dual core i7-4578U (dual core w/ HT), LPDDR3 RAM and Iris 5100 graphics.

If you're referring to the 21.5" iMacs, you are mostly correct, but certainly not for the 27" model.

[zanduh]

So my takeaway is that it works very well and people are upset about that

[Snickerzz]

Starts at $2499.

 

Seeing that a 4k Asus PQ321q starts at $2000, it's not bad seeing a 5k monitor along with a full powered PC for $500 more. (yes I realize the Asus is 31" but its also 4k rather than 5k).

 

The Apple tax myth is busted again.

  

iMac with 27 inch 5K display = $2500

 

Dell 27 inch 5K display by itself = $2500

 

logic?

 

wasnt apple suppoesed to be op?

imacs are entire computers, not just displays

[Captain_Slow]

  imacs are entire computers, not just displays

thanks tips

[Valentyn]

The new iMac's m295X is also rather good at OpenCL and OpenGL4.0 games. Although in older OpenGL 3.2 games like Diablo 3, the m295x is only around 10fps faster than a GTX 780m

 

Full set of tests, against Dual FirePro D300's, and GTX 780m

http://barefeats.com/imac5k.html

 

It's just nipping at the heals of a GTX 780 Ti in OpenCL, so for anything that uses that in OS X; which is Final Cut Pro X, Compressor, Motion, Mari, All of the Adobe Suite, and more that 'little mobile GPU is a heavy hitter.

 

It seems that at $2750, the price of the 5K iMac with m295x; it's actually darn good value.

 

 

[fojacko]

iOS 8 is there best os yet, only complaints I've seen are from "Apple Haters"

 

iOS 8 completely ruined my iPad Air. Ever since I upgraded i get wifi drops and the wifi is just slower in general. It's annoying because I only use my iPad for YouTube, Netflix, Twitch, Spotify and just general web browsing. So it's pretty much useless now, because i'm lucky if I am able to use it for more than 10 minutes before the wifi drops and i have to restart my device (disabling, then re-enabling wifi does not fix the issue).

 

All of my other wifi devices (phones, laptops, PS3, WiiU) work flawlessly on the network, so it's definently not the router.