iMac Rumor Recap: OLED Display, M5 Max, 32-Inch Model, and More

While it appears that the iMac volition not beryllium updated successful 2025, rumors bespeak that Apple is readying immoderate large changes for the all-in-one desktop computer.


Below, we recap what has been rumored for the iMac implicit the adjacent 2 to 3 years.

Current Model: M4 Chip

As a refresher, Apple last updated the 24-inch iMac successful October 2024. Key upgrades included the M4 chip, up to 32GB of RAM, a 12-megapixel Center Stage camera, a nano-texture show option, Thunderbolt 4 ports, and caller colour options.

The wide plan of the iMac has not changed since April 2021.

Next Model: M5 Chip

Apple volition apt update the iMac with an M5 spot adjacent year, but nary different changes person been rumored yet, truthful expect a spec bump for now.

If the iMac receives immoderate of the upgrades that the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip did, the adjacent iMac could beryllium disposable with up to 4TB of retention (up from 2TB), and up to 2× faster SSD show compared to the erstwhile model.

iMac Pro With M5 Max Chip?

Earlier this year, Apple accidentally released a macOS kernel debug kit that contained interior merchandise codenames, including for what appears to beryllium an iMac with an M5 Max chip. It is unclear if the 24-inch iMac would beryllium updated with M5 and M5 Max chips simultaneously adjacent year, oregon if Apple plans to re-release a separate, higher-end iMac Pro with the M5 Max. The erstwhile Intel-based iMac Pro was discontinued successful March 2021.

32-Inch iMac?

It has been astir 4 years since Apple discontinued the 27-inch iMac, arsenic portion of its determination distant from Intel processors. Since then, the 24-inch iMac has been Apple's lone all-in-one desktop computer, with nary larger exemplary available.

In October 2023, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo predicted that a higher-end 32-inch iMac with mini-LED backlighting would beryllium released successful 2025, but it appears that rumor was incorrect fixed that the twelvemonth is astir over. Kuo has not commented connected a larger iMac successful a agelong time, truthful it is unclear if Apple plans to merchandise specified a product.

In November 2023, Apple announced that it had no plans to merchandise a caller mentation of the 27-inch iMac with an Apple silicon spot astatine that time. Instead, Apple recommended pairing its standalone Studio Display with a Mac Studio oregon Mac mini. Perhaps this was Apple ruling retired a larger iMac entirely, but lone clip volition tell, and decisions tin change.

Wishful thinking: a 32-inch iMac Pro with an M5 Max spot and mini-LED backlighting.

OLED Display

South Korean work The Elec this week reported that Apple is readying to merchandise a 24-inch iMac with an OLED display successful 2027 oregon 2028.

The superior payment of OLED exertion compared to the existent iMac's LCD is amended wide representation quality, with higher opposition ratio and deeper blacks.

Like the iPad Pro, the iMac could spell from LCD to mini-LED to OLED implicit the years.

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