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iMac
Apple’s excellent desktop is still going strong
The latest iMac is available in seven exciting colors. Which one would you choose?
THE iMAC IS a desktop with an impressive history. First introduced in 1998, a new edition was soon released in five colors. A little over two decades later, and Apple returned to this theme with the Apple silicon M1 iMac, which is available in seven colors; Green, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Purple, Blue, and Silver, or just Blue, Green, Pink or Silver for the least expensive model.
The iMac is an all–in–one computer, meaning the screen, computer architecture and webcam are all housed in one unit. And it’s simply a delight to look at. The body is just 0.45 inches thin, and features a solid, rich shade of your chosen color on the back and the stand, with a lighter contrast shade at the front.
All three of the current iMac models feature an M1 chip with an 8–core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores. They boast a 24–inch 4.5K Retina display, 8GB of unified memory and a 16–core Neural Engine. The cheapest model has a 7–core GPU, with the other two having eight cores. The most expensive iMac has a 512GB SSD, while the cheaper two have 256GB.