October 30, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple supercharges 24‑inch iMac with new M3 chip
The world’s finest all-in-one will get even higher, that includes the M3 chip and as much as 2x sooner efficiency in its strikingly skinny design with expansive 4.5K Retina show
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment unveiled the brand new 24-inch iMac that includes the wonderful M3 chip, making the world’s finest all-in-one much more highly effective and extra succesful. Because of the effectivity of Apple silicon, the brand new iMac delivers an enormous leap in efficiency in its remarkably skinny design and spectrum of seven vibrant colours that customers love. iMac with M3 is as much as 2x sooner than the prior era with M1.1 And for these upgrading from an Intel-based iMac, the brand new iMac is as much as 2.5x sooner than the most well-liked 27-inch fashions,2 and 4x sooner than essentially the most highly effective 21.5-inch mannequin.3 It additionally options an expansive 4.5K Retina show with 11.3 million pixels and over a billion colours, sooner wi-fi connectivity, and a seamless expertise with iPhone. Mixed with its best-in-class digital camera, audio system, and mics, together with macOS Sonoma, iMac with M3 is best than ever — good for everybody, from households to small companies, aspiring creatives, college students, and players. Prospects can order the brand new iMac beginning right this moment, with availability starting Tuesday, November 7.
“We’re excited to provide iMac an enormous increase in efficiency with the M3 chip,” stated John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice chairman of {Hardware} Engineering. “Hundreds of thousands of customers completely love iMac for its beautiful design and expansive 24-inch, 4.5K Retina show that’s the right dimension to unfold out with all their favourite apps and get issues completed. And now M3 brings much more pace to every little thing customers do, whether or not multitasking, creating fascinating pictures and movies, engaged on a marketing strategy, or taking part in their favourite video games. The brand new iMac with M3 is unbelievable for anybody, particularly those that haven’t but upgraded from Intel, offering an enormous leap in efficiency and capabilities solely attainable with Apple silicon.”
Supercharged by M3
The M3 chip brings one other enormous leap in efficiency to iMac, that includes an 8-core CPU, as much as a 10-core GPU, and help for as much as 24GB of unified reminiscence. It’s as much as 2x sooner than the earlier era with M1.1 Customers will really feel the pace and energy of M3 in every little thing they do, from multitasking throughout on a regular basis productiveness apps to exploring artistic passions like modifying high-resolution images or a number of streams of 4K video. That includes the next-generation GPU of M3, iMac helps hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, offering extra correct lighting, reflections, and shadows for terribly reasonable gaming experiences, and making three-dimensional design and creation even sooner. With a 16-core Neural Engine and the newest media engine, iMac additionally delivers blazing machine studying and video efficiency.
iMac delivers phenomenal productiveness to small companies, college students, players, and on a regular basis customers. When in comparison with the previous-generation 24-inch iMac:1
- Safari, the world’s quickest browser, performs as much as 30 % sooner.
- Productiveness apps like Microsoft Excel carry out as much as 30 % sooner.
- Video games load even sooner, and customers will expertise as much as 50 % sooner body charges.
From content material creation to video modifying or pictures, iMac is ideal for aspiring creatives. When in comparison with the previous-generation 24-inch iMac,1 creatives can:
- Edit and play again as much as 12 streams of 4K video, which is 3x greater than earlier than.
- Produce video initiatives in Ultimate Reduce Professional and Adobe Premiere Professional as much as 2x sooner.
- Course of images in apps like Adobe Photoshop as much as 2x sooner.
A Good Desktop for Intel Upgraders and New Mac Customers
For Intel-based upgraders, iMac with M3 delivers an enormous distinction in efficiency and options. Upgraders will expertise 4x sooner efficiency than essentially the most highly effective 21.5-inch iMac mannequin,3 and as much as 2.5x sooner efficiency when in comparison with the most well-liked 27-inch iMac fashions.2 They’ll love the immersive 24-inch, 4.5K Retina show with 11.3 million pixels, and it’s the right dimension and determination to switch each the 4K and the 5K Intel-based fashions in an much more versatile design. Upgraders additionally get its industry-leading digital camera, audio system, and mics, the superior applied sciences of Apple silicon, just like the Neural Engine and media engine, and the choice to decide on Contact ID.4
New iMac clients will get pleasure from all of those advantages and see as much as 4x sooner efficiency than the bestselling 24-inch all-in-one PC with the newest Intel Core i7 processor.5 The beautiful 4.5K Retina show options 5x extra pixels than the bestselling 24-inch all-in-one PC. Moreover, Migration Assistant makes getting began on the Mac simple, and Continuity options let customers work effortlessly between iPhone and their different Apple units.
The World’s Finest All-in-One
iMac options an industry-leading 4.5K Retina show, the newest wi-fi connectivity, and best-in-class digital camera, audio system, and mics, all in a strikingly skinny design — making it the world’s finest all-in-one.
- Expansive Retina show: iMac contains a 24-inch, 4.5K Retina show with 11.3 million pixels, a P3 vast colour gamut, over a billion colours, and 500 nits of brightness.6 iMac delivers a vivid and sensible viewing expertise, whether or not customers are engaged on displays, managing their small companies, modifying images, or watching motion pictures and reveals.
- Superior connectivity: iMac now options Wi-Fi 6E, which delivers obtain speeds which might be as much as twice as quick because the earlier era, and Bluetooth 5.3, which permits customers to connect with the newest Bluetooth equipment. It additionally options as much as 4 USB‑C ports, together with two Thunderbolt ports for superfast information switch; help for Gigabit Ethernet commonplace on choose fashions; and as much as a 6K show.
- Digicam, mics, and audio system: With a 1080p FaceTime digital camera and studio-quality mics, iMac delivers an unmatched video conferencing expertise, so customers can look and sound their finest whereas taking calls from dwelling or the workplace. It additionally boasts a six-speaker sound system with help for Spatial Audio when taking part in music or video with Dolby Atmos for a theater-like expertise.
- Standout design: iMac transforms any area with its spectrum of seven vibrant colours. Obtainable in inexperienced, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver, iMac comes with new, daring, color-matched wallpapers, and its strikingly skinny, all-in-one design measures simply 11.5 millimeters, which is just attainable with Apple silicon.
- Coloration-matched equipment and Contact ID: iMac contains a color-matched keyboard, mouse, and trackpad. With the choice to decide on a Magic Keyboard with Contact ID,4 customers can simply and securely unlock their laptop, use Apple Pay, and obtain apps. Moreover, Contact ID works with Quick Person Switching, so clients can change to a distinct consumer profile with simply the press of a finger.
- Higher along with iPhone: With the magic of Continuity, iMac delivers a seamless expertise with iPhone and different Apple units on an enormous, lovely display screen. Customers can ship a message or reply a telephone name proper from their iMac, or scan a doc with their iPhone and watch it immediately seem on their iMac. And with Common Clipboard, they’ll simply copy pictures, video, or textual content from an app on iPhone and seamlessly paste them into one other app on a close-by iMac. All along with iPhone, iMac delivers an unmatched expertise.
macOS Sonoma Brings the iMac Expertise to the Subsequent Stage
macOS Sonoma brings a wealthy set of options to iMac that make work and play much more highly effective. Widgets unlock a completely new technique to personalize. Customers can now place widgets proper on the desktop, work together with them with only a click on, and thru the magic of Continuity, entry the in depth ecosystem of iPhone widgets on their iMac. Video conferencing will get extra partaking with nice options to assist customers current remotely, like Presenter Overlay, which locations a presenter on prime of the content material being shared, and Reactions, which allows enjoyable gesture-triggered video results in cinematic high quality. Important updates come to Safari, taking the net expertise to the following stage. Profiles retains shopping separate between a number of subjects or initiatives, and internet apps present sooner entry to favourite websites. macOS Sonoma additionally comes with a group of beautiful new display screen savers that includes slow-motion movies of places all over the world. With Recreation Mode, gaming will get even higher by prioritizing graphics duties to ship persistently excessive body charges and drastically decreasing latency with wi-fi equipment, so customers can get pleasure from much more immersive gameplay with titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, Lies of P, and DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT.
Higher for the Atmosphere
iMac is designed to reduce its influence on the atmosphere. The brand new iMac with M3 is constructed utilizing one hundred pc recycled aluminum within the stand, recycled uncommon earth magnets, recycled tin soldering in a number of printed circuit boards, and, in a primary for iMac, one hundred pc recycled gold within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards. iMac can be freed from quite a few dangerous substances corresponding to beryllium, brominated flame retardants, and mercury, and one hundred pc of the wooden fiber within the packaging is recycled or comes from responsibly managed forests.
Right this moment, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout your entire manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Which means that each Apple gadget bought, from part manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, all the best way to recycling and materials restoration, might be carbon impartial.
Pricing and Availability
- The brand new 24-inch iMac with M3 is accessible to order right this moment, Monday, October 30, on apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in 27 nations and areas, together with the U.S. It’s going to start arriving to clients and might be in Apple Retailer places and Apple Licensed Resellers beginning Tuesday, November 7.
- iMac with 8-core GPU begins at $1,299 (U.S.) and $1,249 (U.S.) for schooling, and is accessible in inexperienced, pink, blue, and silver. It options an 8-core CPU, 8GB of unified reminiscence, 256GB SSD, two Thunderbolt ports, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Mouse.
- iMac with 10-core GPU begins at $1,499 (U.S.) and $1,399 (U.S.) for schooling, and is accessible in inexperienced, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver. It options an 8-core CPU, 8GB of unified reminiscence, 256GB SSD, two Thunderbolt ports, two further USB 3 ports, Magic Keyboard with Contact ID, Magic Mouse, and Gigabit Ethernet.
- Extra technical specs, configure-to-order choices, and equipment can be found at apple.com/mac.
- With Apple Commerce In, clients can commerce of their present laptop and get credit score towards a brand new Mac. Prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their gadget is price.
- Each buyer who buys a Mac from Apple can get pleasure from a free On-line Private Session with an Apple Specialist, get their product arrange in choose shops — together with assist with information switch — and obtain steerage on the best way to make their new Mac work the best way they need.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 24-inch iMac methods with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD.
- Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 3.3GHz 6-core Intel Core i5-based 27-inch iMac methods with Radeon Professional 5300 with 4GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD.
- Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5-based 21.5-inch iMac methods with Radeon Professional 560X with 4GB of GDDR5 reminiscence, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD.
- iMac with 8-core GPU can configure to Magic Keyboard with Contact ID, and iMac with 10-core GPU comes commonplace with Contact ID.
- Testing performed by Apple in September and October 2023 utilizing preproduction 24-inch iMac methods with Apple M3, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD, in addition to manufacturing Intel Core i7-based PC methods with Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, and the newest model of Microsoft Home windows 11 Residence accessible on the time of testing. Bestselling 24-inch Home windows all-in-one PC with the newest Intel i7 processor relies on publicly accessible gross sales information over the prior 12 months. Examined with Affinity Picture 2 v2.2.0 utilizing the built-in benchmark model 21000. Efficiency assessments are performed utilizing particular laptop methods and mirror the approximate efficiency of iMac.
- Precise diagonal display screen measurement is 23.5 inches.
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