[Thork]

Having everything that tiny would get on my nerves.

[Fortuna]

iMacs will now ship with 5k displays. Get wrecked Windows shills.

[Ghost of V]

iMacs will now ship with 5k displays. Get wrecked Windows shills.

Only $2500 to use Facebook and Garage Band? Sounds great!

[xasop]

iMacs will now ship with 5k displays. Get wrecked Windows shills.

ITT: Anyone who doesn't buy iMacs is a Windows shill.

[Fortuna]

iMacs will now ship with 5k displays. Get wrecked Windows shills.

Only $2500 to use Facebook and Garage Band? Sounds great!

No, it's $2500 for the best 27 inch display on the market.

[EnigmaZV]

You could also buy a Dell 5k monitor for the same price as the iMac when it ships later this year.

[Fortuna]

You could also buy a Dell 5k monitor for the same price as the iMac when it ships later this year.

Or you could just get an iMac and get a whole computer too, along with the higher quality display.

[Rushy]

Apple is doing what it always does, adopt a very narrowly supported product in order to corner a market that has more money than sense. It's amazingly effective, but hardly belongs in a thread about genuine uses of high resolution. Considering the horrific rebranded 8970 that it ships with, the computer is going to have trouble driving the desktop background, let alone anything particularly useful to people that have a computer for something other than Facebook.

[Fortuna]

the computer is going to have trouble driving the desktop background, let alone anything particularly useful to people that have a computer for something other than Facebook.

Nah. It will probably be silky smooth though.

[Blanko]

I bet even Facebook would end up looking worse on 5K as opposed to 4K. The great thing about 4K is that it doesn't actually require much support or infrastructure, because it's exactly four times the resolution of 1080p so low-DPI assets scale perfectly. inb4 everything looks like a blurry mess in 5K.

[Thork]

5K does seem like a bloody stupid resolution. Of course this comes from a company that clings to 4:3 for tablet devices which makes a right balls of most videos.

[xasop]

No resolution requires "support or infrastructure" by anything except the video driver and windowing system, least of all websites. The whole point of HTML and CSS is that you can define a layout without needing to know the specific resolution of the device, and it will scale as needed.

[Blanko]

No resolution requires "support or infrastructure" by anything except the video driver and windowing system, least of all websites. The whole point of HTML and CSS is that you can define a layout without needing to know the specific resolution of the device, and it will scale as needed.

What are images

[xasop]

No resolution requires "support or infrastructure" by anything except the video driver and windowing system, least of all websites. The whole point of HTML and CSS is that you can define a layout without needing to know the specific resolution of the device, and it will scale as needed.

What are images

If you have a point to make, please make it. I'm not going to respond to a guess at what you might mean.

[Lord Dave]

No resolution requires "support or infrastructure" by anything except the video driver and windowing system, least of all websites. The whole point of HTML and CSS is that you can define a layout without needing to know the specific resolution of the device, and it will scale as needed.

What are images

If you have a point to make, please make it. I'm not going to respond to a guess at what you might mean.

I think he means "images don't scale well with resolution" so a high enough resolution will generate a small image.  If it does scale, it'll be a poor scaling and the picture will look pixilated.