It has been a scary long wait, but Apple is finally ready to update the desk-bound iMac with the latest Apple Silicon technology at its “Scary Fast” event later this week. And the iMac is ready to live up to that fast promise.
The final details ahead of the October 30 launch event come from Mark Gurman. Writing for Bloomberg’s Power On Newsletter, he sets out the competition on the desktop and how the competition has caught up with the advances in Apple Silicon. This is particularly noteworthy for fans of the iMac. While Apple did bring the revolutionary ARM-based Apple Silicon to the iMac with the first M1 chipset, it has never updated the platform.
While the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops pushed the boundaries of efficiency and portability, while the Mac Studio appeared from nowhere as a hog-performance desktop, and the Mac Pro reset expectations of a workstation, the iMac was left on the first-generation silicon.
That looks set to change this week with the launch of a new iMac, one that is set to skip the M2 generation and move straight to the new 3nm-based M3 Apple Silicon.
With no sign of a MacBook Air or 13-inch MacBook Pro, the iMac will be the first Apple device to ship with the M3 and, as it stands, the only M3 hardware that will be offered—although M3 Pro and M3 Max MacBook Pro laptops are also expected. Because of the lack of an M2 update, the iMac has not seen an update since 2021, a veritable age given Apple’s accelerated turnover of Macs to get Apple Silicon established.
Thankfully this update will bring it up to date, just in time for the iMac’s 25th birthday.
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