Dell’s Inspicosts from £639 and the HP 24 All-in-One costs from £500. In comparison, the Intel 21.5in iMac costs from £1,099 and the Intel 27in iMac costs from £1,799. The model with an eight-core GPU, two additional USB 3 (USB-C) ports, gigabit ethernet and Touch ID fingerprint scanner on its Magic Keyboard costs £1,449 or £1,649 with 512GB of storage.Ĭonfiguring the iMac with 16GB of RAM costs an additional £200. The Apple 24in iMac with M1 chip costs £1,249 with a seven-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage and two USB 4/Thunderbolt 3 ports and ships from Friday. The iMac does not support Spatial Audio with the AirPod Pro or Max headphones, which is available with the iPad and iPhone.
The speakers are pretty loud, providing a surprising amount of stereo separation and more bass than you’d expect, but are still bested by dedicated desktop speakers. The 1080p FaceTime HD camera is one of the better built-in webcams and the microphones are great, making for excellent video calls. The power brick is fairly small and can be bought with a gigabit ethernet socket in it for a wired connection to your router. Only when playing a graphically intensive game, such as XCOM 2, do the fans periodically become noticeable with a low roar. The computer runs practically silently with only a very faint roar of the fans audible with my ear right up against the bottom of the machine. Its performance is very good indeed, matching that of the M1 chip in Apple’s other computers in both real-world use and benchmarks, making it a significant upgrade to the previous 21.5in iMac. The machine was tested with an eight-core GPU, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The iMac lacks USB-A ports and an SD card reader, which is not unexpected but still slightly disappointing. Both have an eight-core processor (CPU), but a cheaper version has a seven-core graphics processor (GPU), while a more expensive version has an eight-core GPU for slightly more power. It replaces the Intel chips uses in previous iMacs and continues Apple’s wholesale switch over from traditional “x86” processors used in most PCs to ARM chips of its own design, similar to those used in smartphones. The iMac has the same Apple-made M1 chip that is currently available in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini and the new iPad Pro lines. It is a bit of a shame Apple didn’t equip the iMac with its excellent Face ID face recognition from the iPhone and iPad Pro, though.Īll the machines have two USB4/Thunderbolt 3 ports, but the more expensive version has an additional pair of USB3 (USB-C) ports in the back and a gigabit ethernet port in the power plug. The keyboard is available with a Touch ID fingerprint scanner, which makes logging into the iMac and switching users extremely fast and convenient, similar to Apple’s laptops. The iMac also comes with a colour-matched keyboard, mouse and/or trackpad.
The fans and speakers project out of the bottom edge, while a headphone socket is in the left edge and the power button, Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports and power socket are in the back. Turn it to the side and you realise the body is just 11.5mm thick, which makes it look like a giant iPad Pro mounted on a stand. Otherwise the iMac looks very familiar from the front. The display has a slimmer white bezel around it, instead of the previous generation’s black border, and a pastel-coloured chin below it, which contains the guts of the computer but no longer has an Apple logo emblazoned on it. The iMac is available in seven different colours (including grey) that are reminiscent of the first iMacs and are refreshing, here shown in orange.
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