Now that the transition to Apple silicon is in full swing, we’re seeing some regularity with the Mac release cycle. The MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini made the switch from Intel chips to the M1 in November 2020, followed by M2 upgrades in January 2023. The Mac Studio was introduced with the M1 Max/Ultra, and then a year later the M2 upgrades came. We also got the M2 Ultra Mac Pro and an M2 Pro Mac mini, but since those releases are relatively recent, there’s still time left in their cycle before we’ll see updates.
But there’s a huge gap in Apple’s Mac cycle, and it involves the most iconic computer of them all: the iMac. The M1 iMac was introduced on April 20, 2021, and that was over two years–over 830 days–ago. It hasn’t been updated since. (The Mac Pro took 1,464 days for an update with Apple Silicon, while the 2014 Intel-based Mac mini went 1,475 days before getting an upgrade in 2018. So we haven’t reached that scale yet, but still, it’s been a long time for the iMac.) There was a time when the iMac was Apple’s most cherished machine, the Mac that set the ton and turned heads. Times have changed, but it still feels like Apple is ignoring one of its greatest computers.
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