Apple Announces New iMac With M6 Chip and More

Apple contiguous announced a caller 24-inch iMac with the M6 spot for faster performance, an N1 spot with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 support, faster SSD speeds, and more.


The caller iMac has the aforesaid plan arsenic the erstwhile exemplary with the M4 chip, and the colour options stay the same: blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange, and silver. The all-in-one desktop machine inactive has a 24-inch 4.5K Retina show on with a built-in 12-megapixel Center Stage camera that supports the Desk View feature.

First introduced in the Mac mini successful August, the M6 spot features the first-ever dual Neural Engine with 2 16-core engines, up from 1 successful erstwhile chips. For graphics, the iMac present has Neural Accelerators successful each GPU halfway for the archetypal time. The M6 spot besides has up to 170GB/s representation bandwidth, up from 120GB/s for the M4 chip.

Geekbench results for the M6 spot already surfaced for the Mac mini, truthful we cognize that the caller higher-end iMac should connection up to astir 40% faster CPU show compared to the erstwhile exemplary with the M4 chip. Apple says the caller exemplary is up to 12× faster than the exemplary with the M1 chip, and up to 18× faster than the last Intel-based iMac.

Apple besides says the caller iMac has up to 2× faster graphics and up to 5× faster on-device AI show compared to the erstwhile model.

In the U.S., pricing starts astatine $1,499 for a lower-end configuration powered by the M6 spot with a 10-core CPU, a 10-core GPU, a dual 16-core Neural Engine, 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports. The equivalent erstwhile exemplary besides started astatine $1,499 aft receiving a terms summation successful June — it was primitively $1,299.

A higher-end configuration for $1,699 bumps the M6 spot up to a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU and has 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports alternatively of two.

The maximum retention capableness disposable is 2TB, portion RAM tops retired astatine 32GB.

A powerfulness adapter with a faster 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet larboard is simply a $30 upgrade enactment for the basal exemplary and comes modular connected the higher-end model. The erstwhile iMac's powerfulness adapter has a Gigabit Ethernet port, aka 1 Gigabit.

With the Apple-designed N1 chip, the iMac present supports faster Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, up from Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 for the erstwhile model.

The leap from the M4 spot to the M6 spot results successful the caller iMac having up to doubly arsenic accelerated SSD work and constitute speeds, acknowledgment to PCIe 5.0 support.

The caller iMac volition beryllium disposable to pre-order starting Wednesday, October 28 astatine 10:10 a.m. Pacific Time, and it is acceptable to motorboat connected Friday, November 6.

Apple continues to see a Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard with Touch ID successful the container with the iMac. The accessories did not person immoderate changes today.
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