MARKHAM,?Ontario—October 16, 2014—Apple today unveiled the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K?display, featuring the world’s highest?resolution display with a breathtaking?14.7 million pixels. At this amazing resolution, text appears sharper than?ever, videos are?unbelievably lifelike, and you can see new levels of detail in?your photos. With the latest quad-core processors, high-performance?graphics,?Fusion Drive and Thunderbolt 2, iMac with Retina 5K display is the most?powerful iMac ever made—it’s the ultimate display?combined with the ultimate?all-in-one.

“Thirty years after?the first Mac changed the world, the new iMac with Retina 5K display running OS?X Yosemite is the most insanely?great Mac we have ever made,” said Philip?Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With a?breathtaking 14.7?million pixel display, faster CPU and graphics, Fusion Drive,?and Thunderbolt 2, it’s the most beautiful and powerful iMac ever.”

iMac with Retina 5K?display delivers an amazingly immersive user experience. With a resolution of?5120 x 2880, iMac with Retina 5K?display has four times more pixels than the?standard 27-inch iMac and 67 percent more pixels than a 4K display. Text looks?as sharp as it?does on a printed page, and you can see more of your?high-resolution photos with pixel-for-pixel detail. In apps like Final Cut Pro?X, you?can view 4K video at full size while still leaving plenty of room for?your assets and editing tools.

The display on the?new 27-inch iMac has been engineered for performance, power efficiency and?stunning visual quality. iMac with?Retina 5K display uses a precisely?manufactured oxide TFT-based panel to deliver vivid display brightness from?corner to corner. A?single supercharged Apple-designed timing controller?(TCON), with four times the bandwidth, drives all 14.7 million pixels. iMac?with?Retina 5K display also uses highly efficient LEDs and organic passivation?to improve image quality and reduce display power?consumption by 30 percent,?even while driving four times more pixels at the same brightness. To improve?the contrast ratio, iMac with?Retina 5K display uses a new photo alignment?process and a compensation film to deliver blacker blacks and more vibrant?colours from?any viewing angle. In addition, every iMac with Retina 5K display?is calibrated using three state-of-the-art spectroradiometers to ensure?precise?and accurate colour.

Not only is iMac with?Retina 5K display more beautiful on the outside, it is also more powerful on?the inside. It comes with a 3.5 GHz?quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with?Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, and for the first time can be configured with?a 4 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.4?GHz. Every new iMac with Retina 5K display also comes with AMD?Radeon R9 M290X?graphics and can be configured with AMD Radeon R9 M295X graphics, delivering up?to 3.5 teraflops of computing?power, the most powerful graphics ever offered on?an iMac. iMac with Retina 5K display comes standard with 8GB of memory and a?1TB?Fusion Drive for the first time. The new iMac can also be configured with?up to 32GB of memory, a 3TB Fusion Drive, or up to 1TB of?super-fast,?PCIe-based flash storage. In addition, iMac with Retina 5K display includes two?Thunderbolt 2 ports that deliver up to 20Gbps?each, twice the bandwidth of the?previous generation.

Every new Mac comes?with OS X Yosemite, a powerful new version of OS X, redesigned and refined with?a fresh, modern look, powerful?new apps and amazing new Continuity features?that make working across your Mac and iOS devices more fluid than ever. OS X?Yosemite is also engineered to take full advantage of the iMac’s Retina 5K?display, delivering stunning clarity across all your apps.

iMovie, GarageBand?and the suite of iWork apps come free with every new Mac. iMovie lets you?easily create beautiful movies, and you?can use GarageBand to make new music or?learn to play piano or guitar. iWork productivity apps, Pages, Numbers and?Keynote, make it?easy to create, edit and share stunning documents,?spreadsheets and presentations. iWork has been redesigned with a new look,?support for iCloud Drive and a host of new features, including a new comments?view in Pages. iWork for iCloud beta lets you create your?document on iPad,?edit it on your Mac and collaborate with friends, even if they’re on a PC.

Pricing & Availability
iMac with Retina 5K?display begins shipping today with a 3.5 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo?Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, AMD?Radeon R9 M290X graphics and a 1TB Fusion Drive?for a suggested retail price of $2,749 (CAD). Customers can order iMac with?Retina?5K display through the?Apple Online?Store?(www.apple.ca).

Additional technical?specifications, configure-to-order options and accessories are available online?at?www.apple.ca/imac.

Apple designs Macs,?the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional?software. Apple leads the?digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes?online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary?iPhone and?App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing?devices with iPad.

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