Loner T wrote:
Can I ask you to look at More boot camp problems new 5k imac 3 tera fusion drive?
I did not have to use any partition utilities. I just opened Boot Camp assistant in finder/launcher (upper right corner of OSX), and that did everything for me. It defauled to a 10GB parition size for Bootcamp/Windows which was obviously not enough. I then clicked the "Split Partition in half" option which on my 1TB fusion drive gave me about 500gb for Windows and 500gb for OSX. It launched Windows setup from my ISO, and when setup was nearly complete, Windows invoked bootcamp setup.
I have never touched a mac system before today, so I was happy the bootcamp setup was so seamless. It took less than an hour start to finish.
Loner T wrote:
This contradicts what AnandTech link says
"At 5120x2880 pixels, the new Retina 5K Display is precisely 4x the pixels of the 2560x1440 panel in last year’s model."
While I agree that the monitor itself physically contains 5120x2880 (14.7 Million) pixels, neither OS gives let me use true 1:1 pixel map scaling.
The maximum resolution slider shows 3840x2160 in Windows . 75% of what I feel each horizontal/vertical setting "should be" (5120x2880)
The maximum resolution scaling is even less!! 3200x1800 in OSX .... 62.5% of what I feel it "should be" (5120x2880)
This is the first time I've bought into a display that I could not use the full resolution. 😮
With VGA monitors you could always set the resolution to 640x480
With 720P HDTVs you could always set the resolution to 1280x720 (or 1280x768)
With 1080P HDTV/Monitors I could always set the resolution to 1920x1080
With the 4K TVs/Monitors I used (Seiki, Dell P2815), I could always set the resolution to 3840x2160
With the Retina 5K apple product I am missing the 5120x2880 resolution that I had wanted.
On the plus side, one other test I did was power consumption. Using my Kill-a-watt meter, the all-in-one 27" Retina 5K iMac with Fusion drive uses:
34 watts in Windows 8.1 at minimum brightness,
48 watts at maximum brightness at idle/web browsing.