Sources tell me the next iMac will have an M2, or M3, or M4.
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Apple has never created new designs each time they update the processor.
I just want a large screen iMac. I refuse to buy another one until they come out with a large screen iMac. The iMac is classic. How can they not make a large screen version? Seems like Apple is making more and more versions of their products and yet I’m less and less interested in them. They are going down the same road they did before Steve Jobs came back. You think they would have learned their lesson.
I remember when we used to think Apple didn’t release Mac updates because of delays to intel chips. Turns out they just can’t be bothered 
This is showers of love and jubilation compared to the Mac Pro !!!!
It is all perspective!!! 👀
I think the M1 iMacs are largely popular with schools, as they have been since their introduction. They definitely look good in a school's computer lab...
It'll be nice if they make an M2 Pro iMac. Maybe once it comes out, my college's Fine Arts building will get them for one of their Mac labs, to do audiovisual work on.
It'll be nice if they make an M2 Pro iMac. Maybe once it comes out, my college's Fine Arts building will get them for one of their Mac labs, to do audiovisual work on.
It is funny how Apple can't win here -- sell the nice 27" iMac, have everyone **** on the fact the display is throw away. Separate them and bemoan it doesn't exist.
I agree. It could easily be done, they did it with some of the Late 2009 to Early 2014 iMacs. but Apple just doesn't want to. Probably because they think it would hurt their bottom line.
Apple cares about the environment, but seems like only when they use "the environment" to justify an anti-consumer decision.
Just think of all the iMacs that could be repurposed into great quality monitors after the iMac no longer meets the performance needs of the customer. Reusing something instead of trashing it or recycling it.
Yeah, of course that is a possibility...
I can't really stand that thing. It's heavy, there's nowhere to really hold it, and it doesn't even track particularly smoothly. But then again, Apple has a long and rich tradition of shipping terrible mice and I don't think they're going to stop anytime soon.
M2 or M3, I’m not getting another 24” iMac just to return it.
It has to be 27” at least.
However, considering how Apple has already gone M2 for the Mac Studio, and seeing how it’s spec’ed, I won’t lose any sleep thinking they’ll do anything but the casual 24” iMacs with very low specs.
The Apple Silicon era iMac is not for me.
It has to be 27” at least.
However, considering how Apple has already gone M2 for the Mac Studio, and seeing how it’s spec’ed, I won’t lose any sleep thinking they’ll do anything but the casual 24” iMacs with very low specs.
The Apple Silicon era iMac is not for me.
I have mixed feelings about that. The AIOs are very convenient for crowded desks. These iMacs take up almost no desk space real estate at all, and provide a really pretty machine with a decent enough size screen.
But yea, when they get to be 5-6 years old they get pretty long in the tooth. You could probably comfortably get 10 years out of the screen.
Worse yet, the 27" iMacs had a 5k screen that is still great by modern standards (as long as you don't play games on it). Bummer it's usually tied to a crappy old i5 with a "fusion" drive lol.
I use a bunch of iMacs in the school I run. One cable. one plug socket. Perfect. And they look good lined up.
Problem is, they all date from 2011 which are the last user upgradable iMacs that Apple released.
I refuse to buy a desktop machine that cannot be upgraded after purchase on principle. So the new, tape-sealed units are a non-starter for me. (yes, I know that they can theoretically be opened using a pizza slicer type cutter but I'm not going to fight an anti-consumer company and will vote with my wallet).
I moved to second hand 2014 Mac minis which I upgraded with after market SSDs, but they, too are now on their last legs since Ventura doesn't support them.
I needed to refresh my main machine since my 7 year-old 5K iMac 27" was struggling with pretty much anything I threw at it and I decided to get the MacBook Pro 14" M2 Pro simply because I cannot see myself using the 24" iMac. I think it's a downgrade in design (coming from 27"), and I would even get used to 24", but those colours, I cannot. And the white bezels. No.
It's puzzling to me why Apple just ignored the 27" iMac owners. And no, Studio is too expensive when you factor in the display along with the computer.
I love the MacBook Pro though, it's a good change for me, but I doubt I'll be ever buying an iMac again. The way Apple treats that Mac lineup is just ridiculous. And the fact that we cannot even seamlessly use the old iMacs as a secondary display is honestly a spit in the face. My iMac is in perfect condition and could be an excellent external display, but no, Apple has other ideas apparently.
I guess for one, future-proofing. The M1 chip is close to 3 years old at this point, and an M2 Pro Mac is likely to receive software updates for longer. The M2 chip also supports more ram, which may matter to people willing to pay more for 24gb of ram.
Second, it's like asking the people who purchased the M2 Pro Mac mini just what they needed one for, and why an M1 Mac mini didn't suffice. I imagine they wanted the extra horsepower, maybe for playing Baldur's Gate 3 on that larger display?
Perhaps the greater question is - why hasn't the iMac been refreshed, even if it's a simple spec bump to go from the M1 to the M2 / M2 Pro chip?
You mean the same Steve Jobs that introduced the iMac as a lowend consumer product with a pathetic screen (even for that time)?
iMacs only got useable screens (aka 20") with the last G4 version. A few years later the did kinda get into "pro" territory with the 24" but that was just the screen the rest of the HW was still consumer grade.
If anything it's the i7/Xeon iMacs that went against what an iMac was and is supposed to be.
I have not run into a task that my M1 iMac can't handle easily. But I want to upgrade my storage to at least 1 TB, and to future proof potentially with an extra 8 GB of ram to 24GB. A 24GB, 1 TB SSD 24" iMac would last 6, 7, 8 years.
This.
The original iMac was an entry-level computer. The 24" M1 iMac is very much in the spirit of that (including the garish colours and white bezels!). The serious desktop Macs were the G3 towers. I think Jobs understood the distinction between "appliance" computers (the no-user-serviceable-parts inside iMac) and serious/pro computers (the blue/white G3 towers with easy tool-free access to the innards).
I think the 24" M1 iMac is fine - its a capable all-in-one for the sort of applications where an all-in-one makes sense. For more advanced uses - nah, I want to choose the right processor for the job and the right display(s) for the job.
I only got a 5k iMac in 2017 because Apple had no other reasonable desktop offering - it was that, an already obsolescent trashcan, the awful 2014 Mini or a Hackintosh.