By the way, at the time I was checking out the iMac, I was reviewing the M2 MacBook Air exploring the ins and outs of navigating the macOS experience.
So, what's the notable difference? Just one to be honest; the new chip. The size is the same; 24-inch display. The display is still a 4.5K Retina display, but better than your 4K TV at home. Same 1080p camera, speakers, mics, the USB port configurations, and yeah, they still connect with a Lightning Cable.
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| I could not resist using Photo Booth and the FaceTime camera |
The colour choices are also the same with their colour-matched accessories: Blue, Green, Pink, Silver, Yellow, Orange and Purple. The body material is now 100 per cent recycled aluminium while the inside parts have rare earth magnets, tin soldering and recycled gold plating in the circuit boards.
You should know that even the iMacs have the base model of 8GB of unified memory (8GB RAM) and storage of 256GB SSD. Both are configurable for a higher performance and heavy intense tasks, like studio work for example.
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| Playing Anoti by Wizkid via Apple Music |
I can testify that while interacting with the iMac, I tried out its audio capabilities and to be honest, I'm impressed. Spatial Audio on this machine delivers the audio quality quite significantly and clearly by just playing Apple lossless tracks and Dolby Atmos formats from Apple Music.
Apple's M3 processors come with some big GPU upgrades that will focus on gaming apps and pro apps because the M3 processors include hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading which are both firsts for Apple Silicon. Apple is also introducing a new Dynamic Caching feature on its M3 processors, which will only allocate the exact amount of memory, dynamically in hardware, needed for each task using the GPU.
