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iMac
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The iMac is the computer that saved Apple: the translucent Bondi Blue G3 of 1998, Steve Jobs's first product after his return, which made the internet-ready all-in-one a mass-market object and design a reason to buy a computer again. Every era since has kept the same promise — the whole computer inside the screen.
1 History✎
The G4's lamp-arm design (2002) remains a museum piece; the white and then aluminum Intel iMacs made it the family-desktop default; the 5K Retina display (2014) put a reference monitor in a consumer machine. The Apple silicon era reset it again: the 2021 M1 iMac shrank to a 11.5-mm-thin 24-inch slab in seven colors — the classic iMac spirit revived — refreshed through the M3 (2023) and the current M4 (2024). The 27-inch iMac and iMac Pro retired without successors, their audience handed to the Mac Studio and Studio Display pair.
2 Current model✎
| Model | Chip | Role |
|---|---|---|
| iMac 24" | M4 (2024) | The colorful all-in-one — 4.5K Retina, seven colors |
3 Position✎
The iMac is Apple's most sentimental product line — the shape on the "think different" era's posters — and its modern role is exact: the beautiful family and front-desk computer, one cable, no tower. Its color-matched keyboards and the seven-hue lineup carry 1998's argument into the Apple silicon age: computers can be likable.
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