Rumors are already floating around about Apple’s iPhone 6s and we’ve got the rundown on everything. Along with that, we discuss WWDC 2015 and our expectations for software and hardware announcements. The Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and through our dedicated RSS feed…
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Here’s what we discussed in this episode:
- KGI: Top 11 new iPhone features for 2015 include Rose Gold option, Force Touch, 12MP Camera, 2GB RAM, more
- Beats revamp still debuting at WWDC, global release late-June, iOS 9 details revealed
- Apple TV shipping times slip to 1-2 weeks ahead of refresh rumored for WWDC
- iOS 8.4 brings iBooks Author Textbooks to the iPhone for the first time
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To support 4K @ 60Hz, at a minimum, you need DisplayPort 1.2 which all Thunderbolt 2 Macs and Retina MacBook support. You also need GPU support, which is any dedicated GPU (Retina iMac, 2013 Mac Pro, 2013+ 15″ rMBP *note, Iris Pro vs of 15″ rMBP doesn’t count) *or* Iris 6000 and up (2015 rMBP, 2015 MBA).
To support 5K @ 60Hz, you need either dual DisplayPort 1.2 ports (2013 Mac Pro, Retina iMac, oddly laptops don’t make the cut). or DisplayPort 1.3 coming with Thunderbolt 3, which is Skylake (Intel says Q4 2015, I say Q1-Q2 2016 so Broadwell isn’t a total flop).
USB Type-C in 2015 MacBook is only DisplayPort 1.2 and chip is only Broadwell, so it will never see 5K support. If anything, since we know 15″ MacBook Pro sells is far larger numbers than Mac Pro, Apple’s likely waiting under TB3 to update it so it’s a single-cable solution, I don’t expect the 13″ MBP with integrated graphics to actually be able to handle it, 5K is a LOT of pixels to draw.