Apple is grandly launching a new iMac, equipped with a powerful M4 chip and revolutionary Apple Intelligence, bringing significant performance improvements and a new user experience. This 24-inch 4.5K retinal display has seven bright colors and is available for the first time with nano-textured glass options to reduce reflection and glare and enhance visual enjoyment. The new iMac will be available on November 8 with a starting price of US$1,299. Its powerful performance, innovative features and environmentally friendly design will surely lead the new trend of personal computers.
Apple today unveiled a brand new iMac, a device equipped with a powerful M4 chip and Apple Intelligence, continuing to maintain its stunning ultra-thin design. The new iMac will be officially launched on Friday, November 8, with a starting price of $1,299.
The M4 chip brings significant performance improvements to the iMac, with daily productivity up to 1.7 times higher than the iMac equipped with the M1 chip, and a speed increase of up to 2.1 times faster to handle high-demand workflows such as photo editing and gaming. The M4 chip is equipped with a more powerful CPU and has the world's fastest CPU core. Whether it is multitasking or browsing the web, users can clearly feel the performance improvement. In addition, the M4 chip also has a powerful GPU, adopts Apple's state-of-the-art graphics architecture, which can handle more intensive workloads such as photo editing and gaming more smoothly.
Apple Intelligence brings a whole new experience to Macs, bringing artificial intelligence to personal computers. It combines powerful generative models with industry-first privacy protection capabilities, leveraging the power of Apple chips and neural network engines to unlock new ways for users to work, communicate and express themselves on their Mac. System-level writing tools allow users to optimize text in almost all places where they write, including rewriting, proofreading and summarizing text. The newly designed Siri enables users to switch smoothly between voice and typing requests, speeding up daily tasks.
The new iMac is available in seven bright colors, including green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue and classic silver. The iMac has a bold color design on the back, making it stand out in any space, while the front features soft tones that allow users to focus on their work. Each iMac comes with a color-matched Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse or an optional Magic Trackpad, all of which now come with a USB-C port, allowing users to charge the device with a single cable.
The 24-inch 4.5K retinal display is one of the iMac's best-rated features, and this time also offers nanotextured glass options for the first time, which greatly reduces reflection and glare while maintaining excellent image quality. The new 12-megapixel Center Stage camera supports desktop view functionality, making video calls more attractive. Center Stage is able to always perfectly place everyone in the center of the screen during video calls, making it perfect for family members to make video calls on FaceTime.
The desktop view uses a wide-angle lens to simultaneously display the top view of the user and his desktop, which is very useful for educators showing students courses or creators showing the latest DIY projects. In addition, the iMac is equipped with a highly acclaimed studio-level three-microphone array with beamforming capabilities, and an immersive six-speaker sound system for an unparalleled audio and video experience.
All four USB-C ports of the new iMac support Thunderbolt 4, enabling ultra-fast data transfer, and users can connect more accessories such as external storage devices, docking stations and up to two 6K external monitors to create for users A huge canvas with over 50 million pixels allows them to express their creativity to the fullest.
The iMac also supports Wi-Fi6E and Bluetooth 5.3. With the advanced security of Touch ID, users can easily and securely unlock their computers, shop online with Apple Pay, and download apps. In addition, touch ID also supports fast user switching function, and customers can switch between different user profiles with just a click of their finger.
macOS Sequoia adds icing on the cake to the new iMac experience, bringing an exciting range of features, including iPhone mirroring, that allows users to interact with iPhone, its apps and their notifications directly from the Mac. Safari, the world's fastest browser, now offers "highlights" features that quickly extract relevant information from the website; a smarter, redesigned reader with catalogs and advanced summary; and a new video viewer that is distraction-free Watch the video.
With the “Distraction Control” feature, users can hide content on web pages that may interfere with their browsing. The gaming experience is also more immersive, offering features such as personalized spatial audio and game mode improvements, as well as a range of exciting games, including the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Shadow. Easier window tiling means users can keep things organized with the window layout that suits them best.
The new Password app provides easy access to all passwords, pass keys and other credentials stored in one place. Users can also apply beautiful new built-in backgrounds for video calls, including various color gradients and system wallpapers, or upload their own photos.
The new iMac is an environmentally friendly design, with 100% recycled aluminum on the bracket and 100% recycled gold plating, soldering and copper on multiple printed circuit boards. iMac meets Apple's energy-efficiency standards and is free of mercury, brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride. The new product this year is that the iMac's packaging is entirely made of fiber-based materials, bringing Apple closer to its goal of removing plastic from its packaging by 2025.
Apple Intelligence is now available as a free software update for Mac (with M1 and later chips), and is available to users in most regions around the world when the device and Siri are set to American English. The first set of features is in beta and can be used with macOS Sequoia 15.1, with more features coming in the coming months.
Apple Intelligence is quickly adding support for more languages. In December, Apple Intelligence will add support for localized English in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK, with extended language support in April, and more language support will be available throughout the year. Chinese, English (Indian), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese and other languages will all be supported.
In short, the new iMac, with its powerful performance, innovative features and environmentally friendly design, brings users an unprecedented Mac experience, which is undoubtedly a major breakthrough for Apple in the field of personal computers. The addition of Apple Intelligence brings the convenience of artificial intelligence into daily work and life, pointing out the direction for future technological development.