Looking at that side-by-side the 24’s thin white (off-white) bezels look way better.
Apple's 2023 Roadmap: When to Expect New Product Launches This Year
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Realityck
macrumors G5
Ignoring the bezel POC, the biggest improvement in the recent 24" redesign was how easy it is to lift and move around an all-in-one compared to the previous iMac model series. I carried a 27" iMac in from a parking lot to the Apple store and it was so heavy and large stand causing it to be awkward to hold along with the narrow edges of the display portion. If Apple continues to make larger iMacs the current more rectangular design is exceedingly easy to transport comparably.
pauloregan
macrumors 6502
Apple have already said there won't be a bigger iMac or an iMac Pro.
Due to chip shortages etc I doubt there will any 'm3' chips, just improved m2 chips.
Due to chip shortages etc I doubt there will any 'm3' chips, just improved m2 chips.
Ye of little faith.
Realityck
macrumors G5
Where did Apple say anything that was quoted? 😏
The 2020 27" was removed from store (ceased production), and the 24" iMac is still sold. Yes there isn't a need for a intel Xeon based iMac Pro which was a limited life product as the later 27" iMac duplicated its performance pretty much.
I'd like to see whatever mini-LED display they come out with replace the price point of the Studio Display, and for the Studio Display to drop considerably in price. It's ridiculous that I can buy a MacBook Pro for the same price as a freaking display that's not particularly outstanding. But the limit of alternative high DPI 4k and 5k Mac-compatible displays in today's market probably doesn't help reduce the price Apple believes they can charge.
Or the M2 could be there as a stopgap for Apple to release in 2022 while waiting for the 3nm M3 to come out this year.
Motorola68000
macrumors 6502
In my opinion, the M2 was not what Apple expected, let alone its drop back in speed when using the one SSD.
The Studio was again in my opinion a stop gap, as I don't believe anyone can say that thus far the M2 has been a blinding success.
I even wonder whether we will see the different versions of the M2, but instead see everything M3.
The press were none too impressed by M2 and I doubt Apple were either.
Doubt that will happen with the M3!
The Studio was again in my opinion a stop gap, as I don't believe anyone can say that thus far the M2 has been a blinding success.
I even wonder whether we will see the different versions of the M2, but instead see everything M3.
The press were none too impressed by M2 and I doubt Apple were either.
Doubt that will happen with the M3!
Lioness~
macrumors 68040
M3 makes no sense att all 2023. Not happening before 2024/25.
They haven’t even started for real with the M2 upgrades, only on 1 MBA, to raise interest.
Apple are not cannibalizing on their own products.
Realityck
macrumors G5
Yes it's quite possible we have another 80186 on our hands with the M2. That is the basis of the M3 rumors for sure. There was a 1 year time gap between the M1 and the M1 Pro/Max. 18 month gap between M1 and M2. That leaves a lot of time for Apple to be developing a M3 if the M2 isn't quite what Apple was shooting for with an another more capable SoC family. It also explains the lack of 2022 Mac updates.
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Kierkegaarden
Cancelled
The white bezel made sense with the different colors, but I am hopeful they have rethought the design and will release an iMac without a chin and with a black bezel. The current iMac will probably still be available, so this wouldn’t necessarily be an immediate replacement.
Realityck
macrumors G5
Don't you suspect he leeches off somethings from Mac Rumors forum discussions?
I should add that Mac Rumors seems to post lots of his competition rumor tidbits as seen online, including ones from Reddit.
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darngooddesign
macrumors Core
There will be a Pencil-3 to give the M3 iPad Pros a landscape camera, it will have smaller magnets on either side of the camera instead of the Pencil-2’s one centered magnet, but how would you pair and charge a magnetic Pencil-3 with the iPhone? There’s already a variety of 3rd party pencils which work with the iPhone.
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it’s not about the left and right arrows, it’s about finding the Up key. With an inverted T design it’s easier to find by touch due to the space on either side of it.
Theelephantneverforgets
macrumors newbie
They've stopped production of the 27" iMac, but they didn't cancelled any bigger iMac. It’s unlikely to spect the release of new external monitor (as speculated in the post) since in 2022 they launched the Studio Display. Instead of a new external monitor (unless is the replacement of the Pro Display XDR) it’s time for a bigger Imac.
singleshard
macrumors newbie
This would be significant and if folded into the current (overpriced) price point, would be nice. Every lit keyboard I have seen lacked the 19 function keys Apple gives me. I used the same extended keyboard for twelve years and when it stopped working a few months ago, cried, then went to replace it only to find limited choices and feature sets, e.g. lit but less F-keys, lit but Windows keys, no USB ports anymore? (putting the wireless mouse dongle near external USB3/4 is not great, plus it wastes a port), or Apple with TouchID or without in silver/white or black/black ... I cried more. I went with Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad ... white because it was cheaper and had 19 F-keys and my hardware won't support the TouchID. The new keyboard can be flexed and twisted when holding it on both ends—this is something the wired one it replaced could not do at all. The other missing feature I did not even think about? On the old wired design, the USB ports were in a long bar which acted as a riser ... this new design, without USB ports lays so annoyingly flat on the desk. I stuck erasers under it to mimic another missing feature.
singleshard
macrumors newbie
Excellent point. I dropped money on a Mac Studio yesterday. Sure I could cancel and chug along with this failing 2013 iMac I am on right now, but the performance difference between these two will be insane enough that any M2 (M3?) I might hold out for would not be so insanely better. The one thing that might change—the only thing that matters to me—the next Mx chip might pack more RAM ... 16GB is not enough for my workflow; I chug at work with 24GB and at home I work with 32GB. Memory pressure is constant and a memory cleaner is always running. I have always gotten the most expandable Mac and bought my RAM later after-market. That choice being gone and a year of pondering whether I could be productive on a 16GB M1 machine left me at "hard pass". When the M2s arrived with a 24GB option I considered a laptop for a long time. I would still need an external monitor, so Mac Studio with 64GB of RAM it is. I hope/wish the new way, e.g. RAM on die, etc. is better.
[For reference: on a 2013 top config iMac with maxed RAM, it takes ~45 minutes to convert a hour long Zoom class from Zoom's proprietary format to mp4 ... forced break time]
Patchwork
macrumors 6502
My guess is the 27” mini-LED will retail for at least $3,000 given the 27“ Asus ProArt mini-LED retails for around $2,000 and that’s for a 4K display, while the non mini-LED version is around $450. I very much doubt Apple will drop the price of the Studio Display as they very rarely do this on the Mac side (see Mac Pro that still retails at the same price as when launched 3 years ago).