Apple has officially announced a refresh for its all-in-one iMac family of PCs, boasting a lower entry cost and standardising on a 5K resolution for its 27" models.
Unveiled by the Cupertino-based company late last night, the product line refresh sees the launch of a higher-resolution 21.5" iMac packing a 4,096x2,304 panel, a quad-core 3.1GHz Intel Core i5 processor - from the last-generation Broadwell range, oddly - and a 1TB spinning-rust hard drive. Those opting for cheaper models can expect to find the traditional 1,920x1,080 Full HD panels still in use.
Bigger news comes at the higher end: all 27" iMacs now feature a 5,120x2,880 display, a resolution claimed to be perfect for content creators working in 4K as it leaves room for toolbars while displaying the content itself in full 1:1 resolution. The top-end model features a 3.3GHz quad-core Skylake Core i5, 8GB of RAM, an AMD Radeon R9 M395 graphics processor with 2GB of memory, and a 2TB hybrid drive featuring an integrated 128GB SSD cache. Oddly, this has been downgraded in the company's other models: the previous 128GB-cache hybrid drives, known as Fusion Drives, now have a mere 24GB of SSD storage on-board, with the 128GB capacities reserved for the 2TB and 3TB hybrid models.
Aside from the display and internals, there's no major change to the design - including no shift to the USB Type-C port seen on some of Apple's laptop devices. The company has, however, announced new accessories, launching a larger Magic Trackpad 2 with Force Touch technology and a new keyboard, both featuring integrated rechargeable batteries rather than the AA slots of their predecessors.
More information on the new models is available from the Apple Store.
Unveiled by the Cupertino-based company late last night, the product line refresh sees the launch of a higher-resolution 21.5" iMac packing a 4,096x2,304 panel, a quad-core 3.1GHz Intel Core i5 processor - from the last-generation Broadwell range, oddly - and a 1TB spinning-rust hard drive. Those opting for cheaper models can expect to find the traditional 1,920x1,080 Full HD panels still in use.
Bigger news comes at the higher end: all 27" iMacs now feature a 5,120x2,880 display, a resolution claimed to be perfect for content creators working in 4K as it leaves room for toolbars while displaying the content itself in full 1:1 resolution. The top-end model features a 3.3GHz quad-core Skylake Core i5, 8GB of RAM, an AMD Radeon R9 M395 graphics processor with 2GB of memory, and a 2TB hybrid drive featuring an integrated 128GB SSD cache. Oddly, this has been downgraded in the company's other models: the previous 128GB-cache hybrid drives, known as Fusion Drives, now have a mere 24GB of SSD storage on-board, with the 128GB capacities reserved for the 2TB and 3TB hybrid models.
Aside from the display and internals, there's no major change to the design - including no shift to the USB Type-C port seen on some of Apple's laptop devices. The company has, however, announced new accessories, launching a larger Magic Trackpad 2 with Force Touch technology and a new keyboard, both featuring integrated rechargeable batteries rather than the AA slots of their predecessors.
More information on the new models is available from the Apple Store.
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