Apple’s launch of a new iMac at Tuesday’s ‘Spring Loaded’ event highlights the best, and the worst, of Apple, all wrapped up in a single design. The innovative Apple Silicon M1 chip is at the heart of the iMac, but once again the cost to deviate away from the basic spec will make the new iMac an expensive purchase.
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The biggest change is of course the move away from Intel’s x86 architecture and hardware, to Apple’s own ARM-based Apple Silicon processors. These chips power the mac Mini, the MacBook Air, and the lowest tier MacBook Pro, and are putting up comparatively stellar performance compared to similarly priced hardware.
The new iMac now joins that group. Sporting Apple’s M1 chip, it should bring more performance to the desktop when using native applications, and the Rosetta 2 emulation allowing x86 apps to run on the M1 chip has proved to be reliable if not perfect….