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4K Hardware iMac Rumor

Rumor: Apple to release 21.5-inch 4K iMac in October

A 4K iMac sounds undeniably cool and sexy. And it might be en route for this October. The rumor comes on the heels of a new 21.5-inch Retina iMac has been anticipated for several months, following the discovery of code in OS X El Capitan that pointed towards a 21.5-inch machine with a resolution of […]

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4K Apple Hardware Mac mini Television UHD Yosmite

The Mac mini’s Intel GPU won’t cut it as a 4K media center

I purchased a Samsung 4K television (a UN65F9000) for our family room and was super-excited to buy a late-2014 Mac mini (Macmini7,1, model A1347) to complete our entertainment center. The problem is that the Mac mini’s anemic GPU can’t drive a 4K display at a fast enough refresh rate to play smooth video, which is a bummer. I’ve used a Mac mini connected to a […]