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Apple's $1,299 M1 iMac Available in Blue, Green, Pink and Silver, With Yellow, Orange and Purple Limited to $1,499 Versions
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So if you jump from the $1,300 iMac to the $1,500 iMac you get the same exact iMac with a few more color options. Your allowed to have Ethernet cable capability and they take away the magic keyboard you already paid for in the $1.3 model and let you have a Touch ID version. The regular keyboard costs $100 so they took that back and are charging you $200 more for an Ethernet adapter and a keyboard with Touch ID while they pocket the cost of the keyboard they swapped out. they will fix all this with the pro models once they can make a video that justifies the $1,000 price diff between models.
This iMac would've looked REALLY good if the chin were the same color as the backside and the bezels were black. The lighter tone should've been left only for the stand and the peripherals.
That’s you. White bezels are terrible for content consumption.
I think it would have been more aesthetically pleasing if they didn’t do the two-tone colors. Just go with the same bold color all the way around. The most egregious example to me is the red, where it would be mistaken for pink from the front. That bold red would look great on the stand and chin. That and drop the white bezel and just do aluminum. White bezels always make the camera stand out too much.
I love Apple Computers. And I am super happy, that I just bought 4 21" Intel iMacs for the office.
IMO those new Macs are fugly and all the colors except silver are fugly.
But that is just taste. The huge design drawback would be a not integrated power supply if true.
And of course the M1 chip.
No Bootcamp, no deal. It is that easy.
IMO those new Macs are fugly and all the colors except silver are fugly.
But that is just taste. The huge design drawback would be a not integrated power supply if true.
And of course the M1 chip.
No Bootcamp, no deal. It is that easy.
Probably the OP has already realized this by now, but the ethernet port is on the power brick. Smart idea, actually.
There are usb-c displaylink hubs that will work, just like the do with the M1 Air.
That's unlikely. I'd be willing to bet that old screen is heavier than the just intro'd screen. Besides, a proper counter balance for the screen is a fair trivial endeavor. I wouldn't want the old design either, but toppling over wouldn't be an issue.
if you move all of the hardware to the base... the logic board, the speakers, etc. it would not have been top-heavy. The G4 wasn't either. It would have worked just fine. Also... how is not *currently* top heavy with everything already in the display itself?
Having a power brick sucks.
8GB was standard when I bought my 4k iMac in 2015 ...
My space grey Mac mini has been upgraded to 32GB.
And it can run Windows 10 if I want.
And it cost me less then 1000$.
And my ultra wide display has no white bezels.
Depends on the content. Perfect for the written word.
Why not make the damn thing a touch thicker and eliminate the chin? How is Apple, the most valuable company in the world that attracts the world's best talent making such bad design decisions.
Probably Apple will ditch dark colours on 32 inch modal and go for one solution multicolour Rainbow limited edition only just to annoy us more with a massive lumpy chin to match.
And now I learn the power brick has no Ethernet port on the base model. Oh my God this machine 😂
I was expecting a sleek Pro XDR-style system and we get this piece of crap? Look at that chin! And white bezels? Jeez. What a disappointment. I dont see the chin disappearing from the larger model later in the year.
Well they do for me. Unfortunately I need a bigger screen so will wait until the bigger version is released.