I don't know if this is due to the wider color gamut support, or something else, but I do prefer the richer look on the new iMac. Here (again, via iPhone photos) are the images with those profiles active:Īs you can see, they're much closer, but the new iMac is still richer (more saturated). At his suggestion, I switched the color profile on both to Adobe RGB (1998), a very well-established standard. (I had to grab the frame from an animating scene, which is why they're not identical shapes.)Īs screenshots probably wouldn't reveal these differences, I used the iPhone to take photos, then fixed any skewing and cropped them (but didn't adjust color, brightness, etc.) in Acorn.īoth iMacs were set to the default color profile (iMac), and had identical brightness settings.Īt first, I thought this might be due to the wide color gamut (P3) support on the new iMac, but a friend said it shouldn't be that dramatic. For example, here's a screen from the GpuTest app. I haven't yet installed/tested these, though I'm hopeful they'll work.Īfter logging into both machines, though, it's apparent that something's different with the new iMac's screen. For me, this means I need a couple of adapters-my RAID is Thunderbolt 2, and I connect a second HDMI display via the other Thunderbolt port. From the back, of course, things are a bit different, as Thunderbolt 2 has made way for USB-C/Thunderbolt 3.
Externally (at least from the front) I can't tell the two iMacs apart-if there have been any user-facing changes in the last five years, they're not visible to my eye.