The Cupertino company just updated the iMac line a few hours after doing the same with the iPad range during yesterday morning. At Apple they are clear that this year they need to come back economically after a very complicated quarter at the end of the year and to carry out this comeback what better than a product renewal at the beginning of the year
Nobody really expected this update of the iMac now, at the beginning of March but Apple has not thought much about it and they already have the new iMac of 21,5 and 27 inches with really powerful processors. further in the iMac Pro model they add the option to configure it with up to 256 GB of RAM, a real beast.
Since 2017 iMac have not been renewed and today all models do
It was undoubtedly something that we all expected by the end of last year or even a little earlier, but circumstances made Apple reserve the update for the beginning of this 2019 and today these changes are available in the iMac. Curious that when We were all convinced that Apple would not launch a new version of these iMac until the end of the year goes and updates the entire iMac range with internal changes, the changes that we all expected after all.
Among the main novelties we have to talk about the new processors And this is what the Cupertino company usually updates on a regular basis year after year. It is not surprising that the power of the iMac continues to be the main workhorse of the firm today since there are no external or design changes, but in the new all-in-one of the firm they jump to the Intel Core processors eighth and ninth generation in addition to adding the possibility of using the Vega graphics.
Retina display in 4K or 5K for 21,5 and 27-inch models
The screen of these new iMac is still spectacular, nothing changes in it and with those spectacular 500 billion colors and XNUMX nits of brightness continues to be a benchmark in this type of equipment. Few reflections in it and a quality that stands out compared to the competition products, as they say in Apple without a doubt it is the best Retina screen that a Mac has had.
We have no doubt that once you stand in front of a monitor with this resolution, going back is impossible, so we understand that the best purchase for a user who wants the iMac is to go for the Retina model and put aside «that iMac »That they have on the Apple website and that still uses a 1.920 by 1.080 pixel sRGB screen ... Retina is the choice yes or yes.
2019 21,5-inch iMac Key Specifications
In Apple they were clear that the balanced power in these iMac was important and now they also improve the graphic options with the new Radeon Pro 555X with 2GB of video memory which adds the entry-level iMac Retina model. What continues to fail in these iMac is the Serial ATA 1 TB 5.400 rpm hard drive that the basic model has, but you can configure it to your liking by paying the difference of course. In this case, the 21,5-inch iMac start with:
- Eighth Generation 3GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i3,6 Processor and Eighth Generation 5GHz Six-Core Intel Core i3 Processor
- 8GB of 4MHz DDR2.666 memory with the option to configure up to 32GB
- 1 TB Serial ATA hard drive
- Two Thunderbolt 3 ports
- Retina 4K P3 display with 4.096 by 2.304 pixels
As an extra you can add the following configuration: One 7th generation 3,2GHz six-core Intel Core i4,6 processor (Turbo Boost up to 1GHz) and 256TB of Fusion Drive storage or 512GB of SSD storage or 1GB of SSD storage or XNUMXTB of storage SSD. Regarding the prices we started at 1.499 and 1.699 euros to increase depending on whether we modify the basic configuration.
Main specifications of the new 2019-inch iMac 27
The largest model of the iMac is left with three basic settings that can then be edited to our liking. The main novelty would be to add six and eight core processors. In any case we also have the Vega graphics options and this makes The new entry-level 27-inch iMac they stay like this:
Everything indicates that the improvement in performance is between 60 and 80% approximately in terms of graphic level of these iMac compared to the previous ones, in addition the power of these new iMac is also improved thanks to the new processors. That is why, in general terms, the Apple all-in-ones could be right now at that interesting moment for users who want to take an important leap between an old iMac (before 2017) and These new iMac that we remember do not go up in price.
The iMac Pro 2019 also have their small but important improvement
In the case of the new iMac Pro we can say that they have not been left out of the update, although it is true that in this case the powerful machine does not see modified Intel Xeon processors that are already of the latest generation. In this case, what Apple offers us is the possibility to configure with up to 256 GB of RAM the teams, a real beast.
Of course these new teams do not have notable changes beyond the possibility of configuring more RAM, but we do not believe that they need much more, they are powerful, with a spectacular design and for many a clear substitute for the Mac Pro that we have been waiting for since last 2013… In short, a professional team of which the base price is 5.499 euros, a price that is not available to everyone.
After these updates in the iMac, new versions of other products could arrive that were expected for the keynote on Monday, March 25, so it is possible that at the rate that we go in the following hours we will have news regarding the iPod Touch, the new second-generation AirPods or even the AirPower charging base. Apple is rolling out product updates without restraint.