21.5-inch 4K Retina iMac: 5 Things Before Buying! #Helpful Post

so Apple just dropped a brand-new 21

inch 4k iMac and it's tempting as those

pixels maybe these are five things you

should know before picking one up what's

up guys Jonathan here and the first

thing you should know is that Apple just

committed its second tech crime in the

past month the first being the 16

gigabyte iPhone and the second being a

5400 rpm hard drive in the new 4k red

the iMac now mechanical hard drive as a

whole should die or at the very least

ones you boot from 7200 rpm drives you

could deal with but 5400 is like

watching paint dry

especially on a premium machine as far

as how that affects performance it's

going to slow down boot times loading

applications and after just a few

minutes with is some tasks were

painfully slow on the positive though at

least I have a retina beech bottle look

at its what it boils down to at the very

least you should opt for the fusion

equipped model if you go into your Apple

Store and they don't have it do not buy

the base model make sure they order it

order online whatever you do do not do

5400 rpm next up and the second thing

you should know is how the display

actually works for starters it's kind of

a weird resolution which is 4096 by

23:04 which is just slightly larger than

cinema 4k now I guarantee you someone

out there will comment why would I want

such a high resolution on a screen that

small the text and the icons they're

going to look like ants but this is how

it works what Apple does is take all

those pixels 9 point 4 million to be

exact and for every pixel of real estate

they cram 4 pixels in there which

results in a super crispy vivid image so

by default it's going to look like 2048

by 1152 so slightly more real estate

than a 1080p screen you also have the

option to scale to 23:04 by 1296 which

is a little bit weird

and then lastly 2560 by 1440 which is

what you would see on most 27-inch

monitors on top of that one of the

improvements they made to the 27-inch

retina iMac was the display itself so

now there's a 25% wider color gamut and

the same thing applies to this iMac here

all in all if you think higher

resolution screens are a waste of money

or if you've never checked or not in

person do yourself a favor because they

look really good following that the

third thing you should know is that the

RAM is not user upgradeable you can do

so only 27-inch iMac but with the 21

inch iMac you are locked down to with

what you order

so with that you can max this thing out

with 16 gigabytes of RAM no 32 gigabyte

option it's going to cost you 200 bucks

so I really don't know what this kind of

machine if that's worth it but if you

wanted to up the RAM that option is

there fourth up is the fact there is no

dedicated graphics option whatsoever on

the fork a 21 inch iMac yes I understand

in a great graphics on the baseline

model fine but if you wanted to max this

thing out I would expect some sort of

dedicated graphics especially on a high

resolution screen following that that

kind of leads me into my fifth point and

that's the fact that I don't think the

i7 is worth the upgrade over the i-5

right off the bat if you play the fusion

drive that is sixteen hundred bucks if

you pop on another two hundred for the

CPU you're getting really close to

twenty seven inch retina territory and

in that case not only you're getting

better performance you're getting

dedicated graphic options and more

importantly a bigger screen with more

resolution so if you haven't noticed yet

there's definitely a theme with this

iMac yes get the fusion drive but save

your money on everything else and if you

want to upgrade it and max it out put

that towards a 27-inch iMac you're going

to get a much better bang for your buck

aside from that hopefully enjoy the

video and it saved you from a tragic

5400 rpm hard drive approaches if you're

ready for the review and you want to see

that make sure you go mariah carey

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catch you guys later