27-inch iMac: Doing the math

On January 17, 2010, in Equipment, by Jamie Cox

That new iMac has a seriously big screen. Do the math:

iMac 2,560 x 1,440 = 3,686,400 pixels
19″ Monitor 1,280 x 1,024 = 1,310,720
3,686,400 / 1,310,720 = 2.8 times as big

That’s nearly as many pixels as three (3) conventional 19″ monitors. I have two 19″ monitors at work, and that’s a nice amount of screen real estate, but to have way more than that all on a single screen, whoa!

It’s also the equivalent of exactly four HDTV pictures at 720×1280. So, it has the screen area to show four different 720p HD videos at once.

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