The iMac is far overdue for a redesign. The current “tapered edge” design dates back to 2012, and was itself mostly a slimming-down of the original aluminum iMac from 2007. Viewed from the front, the iMac looks the same today as it did 13 years ago. You could say that the iMac doesn’t need to change its look, and that’s a valid point. But it’s showing its age in other areas too, and that’s more of a problem. Could we soon see an ARM iMac? If so, what might it look like?
Make it like the iMac Pro
The iMac Pro looks like a space gray iMac on the outside, but inside it’s a completely new machine, with much better cooling, and a no more mechanical, spinning hard drive. Short of changing nothing at all, this is the second-easiest iMac redesign for Apple. Just make it silver, and replace the Xeon chips with Core i7s and so on. That would be a fantastic machine right there.
This is a good place to mention the ridiculous fact that the iMac still contains a magnetic hard drive. This surely keeps the cost down on the entry-level iMac, the one that you find on the reception desk of fancy dentist offices, but it makes the computer way too slow. I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m still running one of the old boxy-sided aluminum iMacs, only it has the HDD replaced with an SSD. For everyday computing — launching apps, working with photos — it feels every bit as fast as the HDD-encumbered demo units in the Apple Store.
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