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 quicker 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. Due to 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 quicker than the prior technology with M1.1 And for these upgrading from an Intel-based iMac, the brand new iMac is as much as 2.5x quicker than the preferred 27-inch fashions,2 and 4x quicker than probably 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, quicker wi-fi connectivity, and a seamless expertise with iPhone. Mixed with its best-in-class digicam, audio system, and mics, together with macOS Sonoma, iMac with M3 is healthier than ever — excellent 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 a giant 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 gorgeous design and expansive 24-inch, 4.5K Retina show that’s the right measurement to unfold out with all their favourite apps and get issues accomplished. And now M3 brings much more velocity to the whole lot customers do, whether or not multitasking, creating charming photographs and movies, engaged on a marketing strategy, or enjoying their favourite video games. The brand new iMac with M3 is unbelievable for anybody, particularly those that haven’t but upgraded from Intel, offering a large leap in efficiency and capabilities solely doable with Apple silicon.”
Supercharged by M3
The M3 chip brings one other big leap in efficiency to iMac, that includes an 8-core CPU, as much as a 10-core GPU, and assist for as much as 24GB of unified reminiscence. It’s as much as 2x quicker than the earlier technology with M1.1 Customers will really feel the velocity and energy of M3 in the whole lot they do, from multitasking throughout on a regular basis productiveness apps to exploring inventive 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 quicker. 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 shoppers. When in comparison with the previous-generation 24-inch iMac:1
- Safari, the world’s quickest browser, performs as much as 30 % quicker.
- Productiveness apps like Microsoft Excel carry out as much as 30 % quicker.
- Video games load even quicker, and customers will expertise as much as 50 % quicker 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 tasks in Remaining Minimize Professional and Adobe Premiere Professional as much as 2x quicker.
- Course of images in apps like Adobe Photoshop as much as 2x quicker.
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 quicker efficiency than probably the most highly effective 21.5-inch iMac mannequin,3 and as much as 2.5x quicker efficiency when in comparison with the preferred 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 measurement and determination to exchange each the 4K and the 5K Intel-based fashions in an much more versatile design. Upgraders additionally get its industry-leading digicam, 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 prospects will take pleasure in all of those advantages and see as much as 4x quicker efficiency than the bestselling 24-inch all-in-one PC with the newest Intel Core i7 processor.5 The gorgeous 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 gadgets.
The World’s Greatest All-in-One
iMac options an industry-leading 4.5K Retina show, the newest wi-fi connectivity, and best-in-class digicam, 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 huge shade 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 films 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 technology, and Bluetooth 5.3, which permits customers to hook up with the newest Bluetooth equipment. It additionally options as much as 4 USB‑C ports, together with two Thunderbolt ports for superfast information switch; assist for Gigabit Ethernet customary on choose fashions; and as much as a 6K show.
- Digicam, mics, and audio system: With a 1080p FaceTime digicam 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 assist for Spatial Audio when enjoying music or video with Dolby Atmos for a theater-like expertise.
- Standout design: iMac transforms any area with its spectrum of seven vibrant colours. Out there 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 doable with Apple silicon.
- Shade-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 prospects 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 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 participating 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 allows enjoyable gesture-triggered video results in cinematic high quality. Important updates come to Safari, taking the online expertise to the subsequent degree. Profiles retains looking separate between a number of subjects or tasks, and internet apps present quicker entry to favourite websites. macOS Sonoma additionally comes with a set of gorgeous new display savers that includes slow-motion movies of places world wide. 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 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 Atmosphere
iMac is designed to reduce its affect on the surroundings. 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.
Immediately, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout the whole manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Because of this each Apple system offered, from part manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, all the way in which to recycling and materials restoration, shall be carbon impartial.
Pricing and Availability
- The brand new 24-inch iMac with M3 is offered to order right this moment, Monday, October 30, on apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in 27 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It is going to start arriving to prospects and shall be in Apple Retailer places and Apple Approved 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 further USB 3 ports, Magic Keyboard with Contact ID, Magic Mouse, and Gigabit Ethernet.
- Further technical specs, configure-to-order choices, and equipment can be found at apple.com/mac.
- With Apple Commerce In, prospects 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 system 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 find out how 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. Immediately, 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 companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff 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 customary 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 newest model of Microsoft Home windows 11 Dwelling obtainable on the time of testing. Bestselling 24-inch Home windows all-in-one PC with the newest Intel i7 processor relies on publicly obtainable gross sales information over the prior 12 months. Examined with Affinity Picture 2 v2.2.0 utilizing the built-in benchmark model 21000. Efficiency checks are carried out utilizing particular laptop techniques and replicate the approximate efficiency of iMac.
- Precise diagonal display measurement is 23.5 inches.
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