Apple's Bright New iMacs Come With Color-Matched Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Power Cord and USB-C Cable

[AppliedVisual]

You must be new to Apple. The original iMac followed by several generations were all the same rainbow colors, until they eventually went with white and then silver.

Mac Pro came in translucent candy colors at the same time. I had the indigo blue and a lime green.

EDIT> PowerMac! I Meant PowerMac. And not really candy colors, just Bondi Blue for the G3 and Graphite on the G4. We had an aftermarket front panel/ side logo kit for our G4. It’s been so long I lost some clarity there.

 

[tallii4]

I'm pretty jazzed up about the colors. It looks like a good spiritual successor for the g3 iMacs, which were never powerful machines to begin with. They were simple, small, and pretty much impossible to upgrade anyway.

It's kinda funny that the iPad Pro has the same processor.

I do agree, the lack of Apple logo on the front seems like a weird omission. Honestly it gave me HP monitor vibes.

Also the color matched mouse/keyboard/trackpad. WOWWWWW!!! I'M IN LOVE! I'm super jazzed about that. It means we'll finally get peripherals and stuff in COLORS again. I'm so sick of the modern classical grey everywhere.

colored peripherals with more functionality than the old colorful puck mouse lol

 

[Maconplasma]

The white bezel would look elegant and sleek if it were not for the stupid chin. Jony Ive might be gone, but the legacy of absolute thinness is living on. Who cares if the damn thing is 11.5mm or 15mm? The concept of the floating screen with a white bezel is one of Apple's most iconic and beloved designs. We could have had a call back to this and it would have been great:
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Instead, someone did some low effort photoshop scaling and gaussian blurring of a G3 iMac and thought it would be a cool throwback:
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The sunflower iMac was the best iMac design ever. Sadly it's biggest issue was the screen wobble. Apple just couldn't get it right even after a few generations. Plus the circular logic board costed them a lot of money since it was a special design.

 

[Stephen.R]

and, with a Logitech mouse, putting up with a wire for just a couple of hours gives you a full charge and you can forget about charging cables for weeks

A couple of hours charge of the Magic Mouse (say overnight) gives you a month of use. If you forget literally a couple of minutes gives you a full days use.

no “putting up with” a wire.

Its amazing the logical contortions some people will go to to try and defend lazy design...

It’s amazing the things people will find to complain about.

 

[macjunkie2013]

I am 100% convinced that Apple will add Apple Pencil support with a "Pro Version" of the new iMac.

 

[The_Martini_Cat]

I love those colors especially the orange and red ones. It is like a Hawaiian Sunrise! People have complained about no face ID recognition but ... aren't you already unlocking your old iMac with your Apple Watch? It's not really possible to assess whether to get one of these until you know A) Max RAM and B) Max SSD. But since my 27 inch 5K iMac screen is sometimes bit on the large side, I can definitely see going with a 24 inch. Especially one that is a lot faster. The 1G ethernet that plugs into the power cord? YES! this is exactly what I need at home right now! An orange iMac and a purple iPhone ... the exact colors Mother Cat told us to never use together, but Mother Cat has lived her nine lives long since. We're in the future now!

 

[Maconplasma]

Mac Pro came in translucent candy colors at the same time. I had the indigo blue and a lime green.

The Mac Pro? Do you mean the PowerMac G3? If so it only shipped in a translucent color of Bondi Blue. I had one.

 

[MacFan782040]

I think this will all feel really silly and dated in a couple of years. Should have kept it to 3 or 4 simple colors. And matching colors for the keyboard, mouse, charging cables, etc. are not needed. It all just feels really cheap IMO.

 

[AppliedVisual]

They sell one for 149 dollars.

It won't have the pastel colors, though.

Yes it, the extended keyboard with keypad, will be color matched if you order with the new iMac and the extended keyboard has Touch ID as well.

 

[FatMax]

That was my exact thought. Who needs a magnetic cord on a desktop? No batteries makes that a big issue.

in addition the cord is now a proprietary connector. Why? They have changed a industry standard for no additional convenience.

There’s no room internally in the new iMac for the industry standard socket you lust for.

 

[Sprunt]

Glad Apple values color coordination over actual useful features.

Courage.

Why would that bother you?...and why are mentioning it?

 

[Sprunt]

White screen bezels?!?! WHITE SCREEN BEZELS?!?!

What a disgrace!

Why would that bother you?...and why are mentioning it?

 

[Neodym]

I guess get your iMac with all of these ridiculously stupid colors? Any mature adult would buy a computer in black or white, that is it. "Let's go to my VP boss's office where he has his orange iMac on his desk." Wow, gee, how professional.

[…]

The company is ran by a bunch of morons now.

If it feels more professional to you, get the silver one or a dull off-the-mill PC then. Creative folks happen to like colours.

Besides - that color scheme is genius: Everyone is ranting about white front and big bezel and no one notices that you still can’t adjust the height of that thing. It also does not look like there would be a VESA option, either. That - to me - is the biggest let-down of this generation, albeit unfortunately not unheard of in the earlier iterations of the iMac.

To me, that contributes to the lamp continuing to be the best iMac so far. Both optically and ergonomically.

Edit: There is indeed the option to get the iMac with a VESA mount - thanks to other posters for clarifying that. Still my criticism stands: A machine in this class should come with a height-adjustable stand by default.

 

[farewelwilliams]

It's somehow impossible to supply a longer cable that will survive mouse use (how did we survive in the days before wireless)? Apple couldn't contrive a design where the plug didn't rub on the desk? Hillarious.

Then you'll be forced to bring that special cable along which ruins one of the benefits of charging via existing lightning cable: you don't have to bring anything extra with you while you travel because you already have the iPhone charging cable.

Also if you lose that special mouse cable, you have to buy a new one rather than use the billions of lightning cables that exist in the world today.

They thought this through. Hilarious that you think you solved it with a special mouse cable that no one wants to buy an extra pair of.

Wuh? You'd need it plugged in for one 2-3 hour period out of weeks of use - and you can still do that overnight if you're organised, but if it does run out in the middle of a job you wouldn't need to stop.

The goal is to be better than Magic Mouse 1 which is spending 2 minutes swapping batteries.

If you spend 2-3 hours having a mouse be "wired" to a cable that doesn't allow for full range of motion and a cable that would likely fray, that's not any better than Magic Mouse 1.

And yes, you're supposed to charge overnight which means there is no problem having the port on the bottom. macOS will remind you many times to do it. That one time you forget several times in a row only cost you 2 minutes of "free" time going to the bathroom or grabbing a coffee while your mouse charges vs 2 minutes of "busy" time swapping batteries.

Magic Mouse 2 is better in every way than the Magic Mouse 1. To be clear, I hate the mouse, but charge port on the bottom makes sense to me.

...and, with a Logitech mouse, putting up with a wire for just a couple of hours gives you a full charge and you can forget about charging cables for weeks, rather than having the battery conk out and interrupt your work every day (...and that doesn't stop you charging it overnight or doing a quick top-up if you want to...) - its all advantages, no downside.

Its amazing the logical contortions some people will go to to try and defend lazy design...

As I said, the existing cables will fray and including a new wire will lose the convenience of not worrying about packing something special just for the mouse (magic mouse 1 needed you to pack AA batteries in the bag). And a special mouse cable is something that no customer should need to worry about buying extra of.

 

[BWhaler]

It’s the iMac SE

Not bad pe se, it’s truly a main stream consumer device for those who care more about the fashion of a device.

Let’s hope there is an iMac Pro in the pipeline.

 

[DanTSX]

It’s really good looking from the back. It looks goofy from the front. Specs are fine. Pricing is pushing it, but you certainly do get a lot more life out of Apple desktops, so it’s fine.

I’ll still be ordering the 512gb version regardless on 4/30. I expect a follow-up and more professional appearing “pro” mode, but I’m not waiting around for it.

 

[Stephen.R]

It also does not look like there would be a VESA option, either.

There is a VESA mount version

 

[Martinpa]

If it feels more professional to you, get the silver one or a dull off-the-mill PC then. Creative folks happen to like colours.

Besides - that color scheme is genius: Everyone is ranting about white front and big bezel and no one notices that you still can’t adjust the height of that thing. It also does not look like there would be a VESA option, either. That - to me - is the biggest let-down of this generation, albeit unfortunately not unheard of in the earlier iterations of the iMac.

To me, that contributes to the lamp continuing to be the best iMac so far. Both optically and ergonomically.

There is a VESA mount option. Someone posted a link a few pages back.

 

[DennisdeWit]

In my opinion this iMac looks terrible. I am not a fan of the pastel colors. Due to the absence of the Apple logo, it makes the chin look even bigger. And then we have these terrible white bezels. I can’t imagine Apple built a prototype of this design and then really thought it looked amazing.

Hoping the bigger iMac will have a better design. If not, I might for a Mac Mini M1 and pick a display that I actually like.

 

[sevoneone]

I guess get your iMac with all of these ridiculously stupid colors? Any mature adult would buy a computer in black or white, that is it. "Let's go to my VP boss's office where he has his orange iMac on his desk." Wow, gee, how professional.

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Apple then introduces an updated iPad with an M1 chip in it and says it has "all day battery life." Um, how about statistics? 14 hours of battery life? 24 hours of battery life? What is it? How about mini LED? Oh that's only in the 12.9" model, not the 11", sorry folks, you'll have to pay a minimum of $1,100 and carry around a huge iPad with you just to get the new screen technology.

While I hate the design choices, I do love the color choices. There is a silver option if you don't want or like the colors offered. Companies are putting a lot into office space design and incorporating details like color is becoming a big deal, especially post Covid and companies trying to make offices feel more welcoming to people that like some of the benefits of working from home. So if your VP is in an office and the Orange computer complements the rest of the decor, why not? Color done well looks just a professional as black/white/grey. We just remodeled our Marketing and Accounting workspaces and the Blue iMacs would look very sharp there.

The iPad with the M1 is the star of the show IMO. With that screen, the 12.9" iPad is more pro than the 13" MBP with M1. 512GB of storage and the Smart KB setting you back $1750 may seem crazy, but how much extra would you pay to have that screen on a MBP? The camera system with lidar?

 

[MVMNT]

iMacs are now as seasonal as Watches. They will release new colours to hide slow hardware update schedules or to create newsworthy content.

 

[AppliedVisual]

The Mac Pro? Do you mean the PowerMac G3? If so it only shipped in a translucent color of Bondi Blue. I had one.

Yes, Power Mac. Wow, I put Mac Pro. I was thinking PowerMac... Bondi Blue was the G3, Graphite for the G4. The lime green one we had was a G4, but in retrospect I’m thinking the colored bits might have been an aftermarket panel kit. We also had a few Xserves at one point that were black. But we did that ourselves.

 

[Cycom]

Why would that bother you?...and why are mentioning it?

Because we all happen to be on an internet forum related to Apple, giving opinions about content relating to Apple. I assume you’re here for the same reason, given that you chose to spend the time to reply to me in a post relating to Apple.

 

[Dark_Omen]

While I hate the design choices, I do love the color choices. There is a silver option if you don't want or like the colors offered. Companies are putting a lot into office space design and incorporating details like color is becoming a big deal, especially post Covid and companies trying to make offices feel more welcoming to people that like some of the benefits of working from home. So if your VP is in an office and the Orange computer complements the rest of the decor, why not? Color done well looks just a professional as black/white/grey. We just remodeled our Marketing and Accounting workspaces and the Blue iMacs would look very sharp there.

The iPad with the M1 is the star of the show IMO. With that screen, the 12.9" iPad is more pro than the 13" MBP with M1. 512GB of storage and the Smart KB setting you back $1750 may seem crazy, but how much extra would you pay to have that screen on a MBP? The camera system with lidar?

Fair argument regarding the colors. Not a big fan of bright, colorful offices though.

I'd rather just buy a Mac but I understand everyone has their preferences. Still doesn't answer why Apple touts "all day battery life" but then doesn't say how long the battery is supposed to last. Do the M1 iPads have better battery life than the non-M1 versions? Common says also says they should've put the mini-LED in the 11" models but hey, this is Apple and they'll try any way possible to get you to spend more money than you need to.

 

[Nuno Lopes]

What’s with that chin jeezzz.