Apple Creates an iMac Screen So Sharp There's Almost Nothing to Watch on It

The 27-inch iMac with a 14.7 million pixel display. Source: Apple Inc.
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Apple just released an insanely high-resolution screen with a computer inside of it. Here are the highlights of what you can do with the new iMac, according to Phil Schiller, the company's head of marketing: edit video and photos, read magazines ... um, look at the pretty app icons.

"There has never been a display to show off that great new user interface as beautiful as this new Retina 5K display," Schiller says on stage at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California. "When you read text, it looks incredible, crisp and sharp, with magazine quality. If you work with photos, you'll have never worked on a desktop display with this level of detail."