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Retina iMac. Do it!
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The guts can't push the pixels on the 5k. If you're doing any kind of editing that requires the extra real estate (HD video), then you probably also require some graphical processing overhead... the 5k iMac just isn't capable of that without melting yet. As with the Macbook.. 1st gen is a bad move.
chrisbmx116
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@Sanddancer
Well, I got to compare the iMac and iMac 5k side by side. And I'm still no closer to a decision. There is a definite difference and looking closely it becomes apparent, but really it's only very minor and for anything other than serious 4k video editing, I can't see that it'd make any difference.
Saying that, now that I've seen it, would I pay the £350-400 premium over a non-5k iMac? Yeah, I would. The question is, would I pay the £800-900 premium over the PC equivalent of the non-5k iMac? Highly unlikely. But then for that £900 extra, you get the rest of the benefits of having a Mac, so I'm still on the fence.