Apple releases a new 24-inch iMac: equipped with M3 chip

Apple today released a new generation of 24-inch iMac, nearly three years after the launch of the M1 iMac. The new machine has a similar design to the previous generation, but is equipped with the newly released M3 chip, which is faster and more efficient.

In terms of design, the new iMac looks similar to the previous one. Apple has made some small adjustments, but nothing has changed. The new iMac provides 7 colorful appearances of green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue and silver, and also provides a new wallpaper with the same series of colors and novel designs, with a thickness of only 11.5 mm.

The display is the same as before. The new iMac is equipped with a 24-inch 11.30-pixel 4.5K Retina display, which supports P3 wide color gamut, more than 1 billion colors and 500 nits of brightness.

The biggest highlight is that it is equipped with the M3 chip, which has not been updated since 2021, when it was equipped with the M1 chip. The M3 chip integrates an 8-core CPU and up to 10-core graphics processor, which is up to 2 times faster than the previous generation of products equipped with the M1 chip. Relying on the new generation of graphics processor of the M3 chip, iMac supports hardware-accelerated grid shading and ray tracing, which can provide more accurate lighting, reflection and shadow effects to achieve an extremely realistic game experience. With the 16-core neural network engine and the latest media processing engine, iMac can also bring fast machine learning and video performance.

The new iMac supports high-speed Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3, which is up to 2 times faster than the previous generation, and can be connected to use the latest Bluetooth accessories. In addition, it is equipped with up to 4 USB-C ports, including 2 that support ultra-high-speed data transmission. Thunderbolt ports, some models support Gigabit Ethernet access standards and displays up to 6K.

The new iMac is equipped with a 1080p FaceTime camera and studio-quality microphone, and the six-speaker system supports spatial audio.

The new iMac is equipped with a keyboard, mouse and trackpad in the same series; it can be equipped with a Magic Keyboard 4 that supports Touch ID, and it also supports fast user switching based on Touch ID.

Naijatechnews  learned from its official website that the new 24-inch iMac will be available for order at 9 a.m. on November 1 and will be available on November 7, providing 8GB of unified memory and 256GB / 512GB solid-state drive, starting at $1,503