October 30, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple supercharges 24‑inch iMac with new M3 chip
The world’s greatest 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 at the moment unveiled the brand new 24-inch iMac that includes the wonderful M3 chip, making the world’s greatest 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 at the moment, with availability starting Tuesday, November 7.
“We’re excited to provide iMac a giant enhance in efficiency with the M3 chip,” mentioned John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice chairman of {Hardware} Engineering. “Thousands and thousands of customers completely love iMac for its beautiful design and expansive 24-inch, 4.5K Retina show that’s the proper measurement to unfold out with all their favourite apps and get issues performed. And now M3 brings much more velocity to every part customers do, whether or not multitasking, creating fascinating photographs and movies, engaged on a marketing strategy, or taking part in their favourite video games. The brand new iMac with M3 is unimaginable 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 large 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 velocity and energy of M3 in every part they do, from multitasking throughout on a regular basis productiveness apps to exploring inventive passions like modifying high-resolution pictures 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 very reasonable gaming experiences, and making three-dimensional design and creation even sooner. With a 16-core Neural Engine and the most recent 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 shoppers. 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 images, 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 tasks in Closing Lower Professional and Adobe Premiere Professional as much as 2x sooner.
- Course of pictures in apps like Adobe Photoshop as much as 2x sooner.
A Excellent 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 proper measurement and backbone to interchange 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 take pleasure in all of those advantages and see as much as 4x sooner efficiency than the bestselling 24-inch all-in-one PC with the most recent 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 straightforward, and Continuity options let customers work effortlessly between iPhone and their different Apple gadgets.
The World’s Greatest All-in-One
iMac options an industry-leading 4.5K Retina show, the most recent wi-fi connectivity, and best-in-class digital camera, audio system, and mics, all in a strikingly skinny design — making it the world’s greatest all-in-one.
- Expansive Retina show: iMac includes a 24-inch, 4.5K Retina show with 11.3 million pixels, a P3 extensive coloration 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 pictures, or watching motion pictures and exhibits.
- Superior connectivity: iMac now options Wi-Fi 6E, which delivers obtain speeds which are as much as twice as quick because the earlier era, and Bluetooth 5.3, which permits customers to hook up with the most recent 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.
- Digital camera, 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 greatest 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 includes 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 pc, use Apple Pay, and obtain apps. Moreover, Contact ID works with Quick Person Switching, so clients can change to a special person 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 gadgets on a giant, lovely display. Customers can ship a message or reply a cellphone 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 photographs, 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 Degree
macOS Sonoma brings a wealthy set of options to iMac that make work and play much more highly effective. Widgets unlock a completely new method 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 intensive 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 high of the content material being shared, and Reactions, which permits enjoyable gesture-triggered video results in cinematic high quality. Important updates come to Safari, taking the net expertise to the subsequent degree. Profiles retains searching separate between a number of subjects or tasks, and internet apps present sooner entry to favourite websites. macOS Sonoma additionally comes with a group of beautiful new display savers that includes slow-motion movies of areas world wide. With Sport Mode, gaming will get even higher by prioritizing graphics duties to ship constantly excessive body charges and drastically lowering latency with wi-fi equipment, so customers can take pleasure in much more immersive gameplay with titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, Lies of P, and DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT.
Higher for the Setting
iMac is designed to reduce its influence on the setting. The brand new iMac with M3 is constructed utilizing 100% 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, 100% recycled gold within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards. iMac can also be freed from quite a few dangerous substances reminiscent of beryllium, brominated flame retardants, and mercury, and 100% of the wooden fiber within the packaging is recycled or comes from responsibly managed forests.
At this time, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout your complete manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Because of this each Apple gadget offered, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, all the way in which to recycling and materials restoration, will probably be carbon impartial.
Pricing and Availability
- The brand new 24-inch iMac with M3 is offered to order at the 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 will probably be in Apple Retailer areas 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 training, and is offered 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 training, and is offered 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 extra 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 pc and get credit score towards a brand new Mac. Prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their gadget is value.
- Each buyer who buys a Mac from Apple can take pleasure in 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 methods to make their new Mac work the way in which they need.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At this time, 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 gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 24-inch iMac techniques 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 techniques 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 techniques 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 carried out by Apple in September and October 2023 utilizing preproduction 24-inch iMac techniques with Apple M3, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD, in addition to manufacturing Intel Core i7-based PC techniques with Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, and the most recent model of Microsoft Home windows 11 House obtainable on the time of testing. Bestselling 24-inch Home windows all-in-one PC with the most recent Intel i7 processor relies on publicly obtainable gross sales information over the prior 12 months. Examined with Affinity Photograph 2 v2.2.0 utilizing the built-in benchmark model 21000. Efficiency exams are carried out utilizing particular pc techniques and replicate the approximate efficiency of iMac.
- Precise diagonal display measurement is 23.5 inches.
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