We just got done with our hands-on time with Apple's new products, and we'll start with what's likely the sneakiest of them, the iMac with Retina Display.

Why 'sneaky?? The answer is all in the HiDPI display, which Apple calls the ?Retina 5K Display?. The retina display is definitely the star of the new iMac, as the rest of the hardware is largely a minor specification bump from last year's model. In fact turned off you?d be hard pressed to tell the difference between the 2013 (non-retina) and new retina models, but the screen is immediately evident once on.

At 5120x2880 pixels, the new Retina 5K Display is precisely 4x the pixels of the 2560x1440 panel in last year's model. What this means is that Apple can tap their standard bag of tricks to handle applications of differing retina capability and get all of it to look reasonably good. This also means that 2560x1440 content ? including widgets ? will scale up nicely to the new resolution. Apple does not discuss whom they have sourced the panel from, but given the timing it's likely the same panel that is in Dell's recently announced 27? 5K monitor.