Thread: iMac Intel 27" Retina 5K Display Teardown
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Old 10-20-2014, 05:52 PM  
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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions View Post
As far as I know 2 external displays, then the 5k itself. AdultKing has an iMac with two thunderbolt displays, I'm a bit envious of his setup actually.

With a SSD and lots of ram, you'll be fine for a good 3-4 years at least. I've got a mid 2010 that works perfectly fine with the latest OSX install and I've got a $500 27" Samsung display attached (same resolution as thunderbolt at half the price).

Not sure about 4k performance, can you run 2 external 4k monitors? That I don't know.
The current DisplayPort over Thunderbolt specification won't support 5k. DisplayPort 1.3 will when Intel releases the next set of chips, possibly late 2015. Until then you'd need to satisfy yourself with 2 normal Thunderbolt displays like I have.
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