This August the iMac will be 25 years quondam ! Way back on August 15 , 1998 , Apple introduced the G3 iMac . Could we see anM3 iMac this summerto celebrate the anniversary ? It ’s possible .
In last weekend ’s newssheet Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman revealed that , according to his sources , Apple is “ at an advanced level of development called engineering establishment examination , ” which mean Apple is already carry yield mental testing on a unexampled iMac .
This does n’t mean the Modern iMac will be transport imminently . Gurman saysthe new iMac is not gestate to go into mass production for at least three months , and that it “ wo n’t transport until the second half of the year at the earliest . ”
This new iMac is expected to have the same CRT screen size as the current mannikin ( 24 inches ) and to come in the same selection of colouring material as theM1 iMacthat Apple introduce in April 2021 . However , there will be “ behind - the - view change , ” according to Gurman . Internal changes include the move and redesign of some interior components and a change to the manufacture process used for attaching the iMac ’s standstill .
The boastful change on the inside will , of course , be the fresh Saratoga chip . Currently , the iMac is powered by the M1 , which has already been supercede by the M2 . But reports suggest that Apple will bypass the M2 for the iMac , moving straight to the M3 . It ’s not expected that the iMac will be the first M3 - powered Mac , though — Gurman mean that accolade will go to the15 - inch MacBook Airwhich may launch rather than the M3 iMac .
Gurman retrieve the M3 system - on - chip could make an coming into court atWWDC 2023 , a class after the M2 was unveiled at the same event . “ The company could then watch up with the M3 iMac afterwards in the year , ” Gurman writes .
