![]() Given the inclusion of both USB 3.0 and USB-C, you won't need too many adapters as long as you have some USB-C peripherals. The 2015 iMac used Thunderbolt 2 ports, so the upgrade means faster data transfers and better forward-looking versatility for accessories. The left bottom corner of the back panel holds four USB 3.0 ports, two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 3, an Ethernet jack, an SDXC card slot, and a headphone jack. While the overall body design is largely unchanged, the iMac's ports have been modernized. Overall, the iMac may not deliver the enveloping effect of the HP Envy's huge 34-inch curved screen, but unlike the Envy, its traditional 16:9 aspect ratio is supported by video streaming services and physical media. The coverage isn't complete, but results are still strong, and should satisfy most use cases. The iMac's display covers 100 percent of the sRGB specturm, 87 percent of NTSC, and 92 percent of Adobe RGB. Color accuracy is important to many professionals for representing real-life colors digitally to facilitate physical printing, samples, and more. The package runs a test on the screen's ability to display different color spectrums used for a variety of purposes across industries. To get a more quantitive conclusion, I tested color accuracy using Datacolor's Spyder5Elite colorimeter and software. ![]() Colors on the new iMac are incredibly vibrant. If you need to see fine details, though, especially in photo and video editing, this is a big help, as is the display's wide color (P3) support. At full brightness the display is almost painfully luminous, and I wouldn't blame you for dialing it down from the maximum (there's also an auto-adjust option). The screen brightness across all of the new iMacs has been increased to 500 nits, and it shows. The font and UI would be too tiny at a 1:1 pixel ratio in 5K, so a scaling setting is active (the default is a scale that appears as a 2,560-by-1,440 resolution) to make it usable, though you can tweak this in the system settings if you want to experience the native resolution. Images really pop, and it would be difficult to make text any sharper. Still, the iMac's image quality is insanely crisp, right up there with the 5K screen on the Surface Studio. The Dell XPS 27 (7760) is another option that doesn't quite have the all functionality of the Studio, but features a large 4K touch screen and can similarly recline. The Surface Studio can recline almost fully horizontally to serve as a digital drafting board, while the iMac's screen can be tilted up about 45 degrees, it only tilts down slightly, and you can't adjust the height of the display. The Microsoft Surface Studio ( at Microsoft Store) (Opens in a new window) combines touch and greater convertibility with its 5K screen, if your work would benefit from a built-in digitizer and you still want the ultra-high resolution. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Acer Veriton Z4820G-I5650TZ Review This year's version of the smaller 21.5-inch 4K iMac ($1,299.00 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) shares the design of its larger counterpart, with no aesthetic variations beyond size (though there are some component differences described below). ![]() The genre-defining aluminum and glass build has stayed thin and sleek-it's easy to take it for granted since it's been around for so long, but it remains an impressive feat of engineering, especially as increasingly powerful parts are packed inside. There's no denying that the new iMac looks a lot like the old iMac, so don't look for any new flourishes here. But it's only a matter of time before high-end Windows AIOs like the Microsoft Surface Studio and the HP Envy 34 Curved All-in-One start cutting into Apple's pie. This time around the 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display ($1,799) gets a brighter screen, more modern connections, and a modest performance bump over its two-year-old predecessor, making it the Apple desktop to buy if a large display and macOS are necessities. Apple has since refined the iMac's design before reaching the current super-slim aluminum version, which has remained largely unchanged since 2012. The iMac defined the all-in-one (AIO) desktop a decade ago, setting the stage for a surge in premium Windows machines built in its mold.
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