"We're making our All-in-One thinner by moving components outboard!"
See how magically thin it is!
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple's $1,299 M1 iMac Available in Blue, Green, Pink and Silver, With Yellow, Orange and Purple Limited to $1,499 Versions
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
See how magically thin it is!
If you compare the iPad Pros they launched today you can expect the successor to the 27" to come with mini LED and be every inch the iMac Pro I think they'll make it out to be.
They are making new products with different price points. Hence the different screen sizes, they aren't like for like replacements for the previous 21.5" iMac so can't really compare them any more.
You would almost certainly be correct about the impending successor to the 27" iMac though, and it'll be a completely different product so it becomes harder for people to compare like with like Intel vs ARM.
The leftover 21.5" Intel iMac will probably be discontinued by 2022 at the end of the Intel/ARM transition - by which time Intel may have called time on the 7th gen mobile chipset in there anyway.
To mitigate this, performance is up, the bigger retina display is a better value, and the accessories are improved (TouchID keyboard).
The reasoning here is dwindling sales of desktops compared to laptops which you will see don't really change price much - largely because Apple aren't inclined to change that design too much. If they launch a 14" MacBook they may not charge too much more for it because of the intense competition. Unless mini-LED is on the cards.
Well, once you plug in a desktop, you pretty much leave it there, no? And I think having fewer cables—particularly ones you pretty much never unplug, like ethernet—plugged into the accessible ports makes a lot of sense.
The appeal of an iMac is that it's an all in one device. Having to now incorporate a power brick makes it a lot less elegant.
Also the base model iMac doesn't even have a ethernet port on the power brick. Such a joke.
Yeah, I do not get the missing Apple logo on the front. It looks like a generic knockoff from the front.
I use an M1 Mac Mini. It's fast for most everyday work day task. Now I can see if I was editing video etc, but for the average user, it is plenty fast.
Technically they're partly HDR. The P3 colour gamut and billions of colours is one of the two key aspects to HDR. Brighter colours with more saturation, more colours, and smoother blends of colours. In fact, this is probably the bigger benefit of HDR over the brighter peak whites everyone focuses on.
Don't worry about this guy. It's already been very clearly demonstrated that the M1 CPU performance is stellar, and only beaten by the very highest performing top-end chips from the other vendors.
Well to be fair the chin is where the 6 speakers are, so it’s not there for no reason.
Yes. It reminds me of the Pixel 1 phone, which looked like they copied iPhone but only later realized that there was no home button
I was expecting a sleek Pro XDR-style system...
This this....exactly. Many were likely led to believe sth like that with the mock ups. Target audience clearly different for lower end machines.
Crunch verdict comes later in the year.
Liking the overall design. I think a 23.5" screen is a nice size, and being 4.5K allows editing of 4K imagery and video without all the tools getting in the way.
White bezel doesn't bother me really. The white works better with the pastel lighter metallic colours of the chin. The chin looks a little bare and I'm genuinely surprised Apple didn't use this space to place their iconic logo, a logo most of us are happy to have in our face at all times.
I think Apple is on a winning strategy with their M1 processor. It's no surprise that the same chip is being used here today. From a production standpoint, it appears Apple has a single chip being pumped out of manufacturing at TSMC. That one chip, the M1, has various qualities in the yield on the wafer. The 7 core GPU variant is obviously an 8 core GPU with one GPU core that didn't pass QA. I think Apple's playing the Apple Silicon transition very carefully, and keeping things super simple.
I would be interested to know if the M1 chip in the iMacs is running at a higher clock speed than the Mac mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro versions, and if so, what kind of performance improvement there is. Or, is the Mac mini pushing the CPU cycle limit already, regardless of the voltage/watts available to it?
White bezel doesn't bother me really. The white works better with the pastel lighter metallic colours of the chin. The chin looks a little bare and I'm genuinely surprised Apple didn't use this space to place their iconic logo, a logo most of us are happy to have in our face at all times.
I think Apple is on a winning strategy with their M1 processor. It's no surprise that the same chip is being used here today. From a production standpoint, it appears Apple has a single chip being pumped out of manufacturing at TSMC. That one chip, the M1, has various qualities in the yield on the wafer. The 7 core GPU variant is obviously an 8 core GPU with one GPU core that didn't pass QA. I think Apple's playing the Apple Silicon transition very carefully, and keeping things super simple.
I would be interested to know if the M1 chip in the iMacs is running at a higher clock speed than the Mac mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro versions, and if so, what kind of performance improvement there is. Or, is the Mac mini pushing the CPU cycle limit already, regardless of the voltage/watts available to it?
Right now I use my iPad Pro for everything. I will wait for the M2 version of the iMac or an iMac Pro.
I will never understand Apple’s obsession with thinness on products for which thinness is not only irrelevant, but actually counterproductive.
Interesting to consider that over the years, there's fewer and fewer raw materials required to make up an iMac. Look at the chassis now compared to the generations prior. Less electronics, and smaller overall volume means fewer parts holding it all together. Yet the costs are going up. So we're paying for R&D and the quality of components/materials rather than the quantity of them.
And weight! They went through hoops to be able to say it's "under 10 pounds" - but it's not a portable device! :O
This will on be the 30" iMac Semi-Pro Model replacing the 27" iMac. For those that hate tutti-fruitti colors and white bezels, this will be a more expensive option!
They will probably add the Apple logo back in the next revision giving people a reason to upgrade.
