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Did iMac just get updated?
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I'm not sure! I've maxed out on a BTO 5k iMac nearly 3 weeks ago and it has the exact same specs as Apples website is displaying in terms of GPU/CPU etc. However there is a subtle difference - the screen is now being described as "Retina 5K 5120x2880 P3 display". I'm sure it didnt say this when I bought mine. Is this what you are referring to?
Is your current machine a Retina 5K 5120x2880 P3 display?
So they seem to be labelled as "new" on the website.
in the MacRumors buyers guide it states "Days since last release - 224" https://buyersguide.macrumors.com//#iMac
It appears something has happened just recently.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac
Suggests that the "New" label has been used for months. Maybe false alarm. A little misleading to call something "new" for that long though.
Suggests that the "New" label has been used for months. Maybe false alarm. A little misleading to call something "new" for that long though.
One of the substantial updates to the 2015 27inch iMAC was that it displayed a wider P3 colour gamut at over 99% delivering nearly 25% more colours than the previous one which showed between 78-86.1%.
Short answer is they haven't changed the display.
Yes it is deffo a Retina 5K iMac (just checked my invoice!) but it doesn't specify what the actual screen is, it just says "27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display".
Maybe Apple have decided to elaborate a little bit more on the type of displays being used??
The non-retina iMac's are sRGB, the 4k and 5k support the wider DCI-P3 color gamut.
There was another thread on this a while back. The "New" simply hasn't been removed since the October 2015 update.