Apple unveils new iMac, see prices here
Apple announced that it has launched a redesigned iMac computer powered by the company’s M1 chipset.
The new range was announced during Apple’s product reveal event and it features a bigger display, thinner design, and several other new features.
The iMac joins the range of Apple products powered by M1, which is the company's own in-house chip that was manufactured and slowly introduced to several Apple products since last year.
According to Apple, the M1 in the new iMac is 85% faster than the CPU in the previous generation iMac. Using content creation examples, the company said users can edit up to five streams of 4K footage or one stream of 8K footage.
The new iMac has a 24-inch 4.5K retina display made up of 11.3 million pixels. This is an increase since the previous iMac, which had a display that measured 21.5-inches.
The device also comes with a 1080p FaceTime HD camera complete with a studio-quality three-microphone array and six-speaker sound system that can be found above the display.
The device is much thinner and has 50% less volume compared to its predecessor thanks to the new chipset. The design is only 11.5 millimetres thick. It is powered using a new colour-matching power connector that connects via magnets to the back of it.
Also on the back of the device are two Thunderbolt ports. The 8-core iMac variant has two additional USB-C ports and a 1Gbps Ethernet port.
The device is available in seven different colours including silver, blue, pink, purple, orange, yellow, and green and is available with three different models of the Magic Keyboard.
One of the models comes equipped with a Touch ID fingerprint scanner and a numeric keypad. Both the keyboard and Magic Mouse are available in colours that match the device.
Prices for the 2021 iMac start at R25,999 for the model with 256GB of storage and a 7-core GPU.
Here are the prices:
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R25,999 |
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R29,999 |
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R33,999 |
Written by: Gabriella Steyn.
Guzzle Media
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