Apple presents the new 24-inch iMac as a colorful, thin all-in-one desktop powered by its M6 chip. Preorders begin October 28 at 10:10 a.m. Pacific, with availability starting November 6. The machine comes in seven colors with matching accessories and features a 4.5K Retina display rated at 500 nits, with P3 wide color and an optional nano-texture finish to reduce glare. Apple says M6 improves everyday and demanding tasks through a faster CPU, Neural Accelerators in each GPU core, up to 32GB of unified memory, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine. Its claimed performance gains include up to 18 times the speed of the most popular Intel iMac, 12 times that of an M1 model, and five times the on-device AI performance of an M4 iMac.
The central pitch is that the computer combines strong everyday performance with AI tools and privacy protections. Apple Intelligence and a redesigned Siri can answer questions through Spotlight, draft or revise writing, create Shortcuts from natural-language instructions, and assist with photo edits; Safari can group tabs and monitor web pages for changes. The page also highlights support for third-party AI apps and creative software, with processing on the device or through Private Cloud Compute designed to keep personal data private. A 12-megapixel Center Stage camera supports video calls, while macOS and iPhone integration are presented as productivity advantages, including copying content from an iPhone and pasting it on the iMac.
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