Have you ever looked at your digital photos at a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels? It opens up a whole new world.

I'm a hobby photographer, and I have zillions of photos not only of my kids but some pretty nice landscape photographs too. For instance, we went to Canada a couple of summers ago and I came home with over 2700 photos from our 10 day vacation on Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. It was a photographer's dream to be there with picturesque shots crying to be taken everywhere you look. My only disappointment while we were there, we only saw one bald eagle and I had been hoping to see more.

The imagery on an iMac is immensely impressive. The colors are vibrant, it uses an LED-backlit display to push more light through the pixels, making them really stand out. Apple also uses IPS (in-plane switching) technology which means you can have your display at almost any angle and still see it clearly. My old 17" ViewSonic monitor pales in comparison. Literally it pales, it's much less vibrant.

Add to that the 2560 pixels across the screen at a whopping 27 inches, you can see so much more detail from your photos than ever before. This really is a must for any serious digital photographer. Photos that you've seen hundreds of times before on your camera or a standard size display look like entirely new pictures, and much closer to what you see in real life. In skimming through my Canada photos again, now on the iMac, something fascinating was revealed to me: we did see numerous bald eagles, I took several nice shots with them in the pictures but never knew it until I could see the pictures with this much detail!