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Most recently in 2017, Apple announced the iMac Pro, billing it as “the most powerful Mac ever made.” Aside from its darker “space gray” color, the machine appeared to be similar to its predecessors. The two new machines were also equipped with new AMD Radeon video cards as opposed to the nVidia chips in previous models. A year later the company brought out the iMac Retina 4K (3,840 × 2,160 pixels) with a smaller 21.5-inch display. In 2014, Apple presented the spectacular iMac Retina 5K with a resolution of 5,120 × 2,880 pixels and a 27-inch display. It features a considerably smaller body depth than the previous models, measuring 5mm at its thinnest point to omit an internal SuperDrive. It will be remembered as the first iMac to include an SSD hybrid drive that was faster and more reliable than a standard disk. In October 2012, Apple presented a new iMac that was much thinner but largely similar in appearance to its predecessor. It was a natural progression for the company. Together with its LED-backlit widescreen display, the screen size confirmed Macs as the computer of choice for watching HD video. It even struck some users as being comically oversized back then.Īlthough Apple previously offered its Cinema Display in sizes of up to 30 inches, the majority of consumers did not own such monstrous flat-panel monitors.
While we’re used to it today, the 2009 iMac’s display and aspect ratio seemed opulent at the time.
Launched in 2009, this was the first of the unibody iMacs, and also the first to be equipped with a 16:9 aspect ratio screen, which was available in 21.5 and 27-inch sizes. The Mac’s aluminum unibody design looks so good that it remains virtually unchanged since then.
With its new processor, the machine was faster than its predecessor, and it also offered more storage (upwards of 250GB) and extra live memory (1GB or more). As its name suggests, the new machine featured a glass and aluminum enclosure that housed all of its components and a flatscreen that was available in sizes of up to 24 inches. The appearance of the Intel-based machine with its white polycarbonate enclosure and 17-20 inch flatscreen differed little from the preceding iMac G5.īigger, more stylish and more powerful, the aluminum iMac was launched in the summer of 2007. In 2006, the iMac revolution was largely internal with the adoption of processors produced by Intel (the Core Duo or latterly the Core 2 Duo). In addition to a 64-bit G5 processor, the iMac G5 also included a much faster memory bus, better graphics for the low-end model, twice the hard drive space for the high-end model, and a new audio port which doubled as an optical digital audio output. The iMac G5 offered a new look with an imposing 17-20 inch flatscreen in a five-centimeter deep enclosure that also housed all of the computer’s other components, including a CD/DVD drive. Introduced on the last day of August in 2004, the iMac G5 brought G5 muscle to Apple’s consumer desktop line. It’s the first computer made by Apple that uses an LCD panel- an industry first at that time in 2002. The G4 is easily recognised by its swiveling monitor mounted above the hemispherical computer. Nicknamed the “iLamp” in reference to its adjustable desk-lamp-like arm, it featured a 15-20 inch flat screen that was easy to reposition and no longer contained in the same enclosure as the other components. Originally known as “The New iMac” the iMac G4 was created to replace the iMac G3 as Apple’s all-in-one desktop computer. The original iMac ushered in a revolution with its impressive design in transparent colored plastic, which allowed the engineers at Apple to include all of the computer’s components in the same enclosure as the screen, and its pioneering technological choices (no floppy disk drive, USB ports as standard, and a built-in modem). Dubbed as the world’s first internet-ready computer, the iMac G3 was manufactured from 1998 to 2003.