Apple 24-inch iMac (2024): Specs, Release Date, Price, Features

October 28, 2024:

The colors are technically the same as before (green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, and blue, alongside silver), but rather than pastel shades, Apple made them darker. It comes with color-matched accessories too.

Speaking of, Apple finally transitioned the peripherals to USB-C—so, we can take them off the list of products that still use the Lightning Connector. At checkout, you can pick between the standard Magic Keyboard or the Touch ID model as well as either a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. Yes, the Magic Mouse’s charging port is still located at the bottom, so you can’t charge and use it at the same time.

Apple has finally added the nano-texture glass option from its Studio Display and Pro Display XDR. It’s great if your computer is by a window and you want to reduce glare. However, it’s an additional $200 and is only available on the higher-tier iMac configurations.

Powering the 24-inch iMac is an M4 processor. The latest chip was announced in May but until now it was only available in the iPad Pro (2024). Built on a second-generation three-nanometer process, it prioritizes power efficiency and speed. With this new chip, Apple claims the iMac is up to 1.7 times faster than the original M1 chip in the 2021 iMac. Meanwhile, graphics are up to 2.1 times faster. The company also says it’s up to six times faster than the aging Intel iMac.

You can also pick between different variations of the M4. If you don’t need all the processing power, the entry-level model has an eight-core CPU and an eight-core GPU. You can upgrade to a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU. All models start with 16 gigabytes of RAM instead of 8 gigabytes, with the option to go up to 32 gigabytes (depending on the processor). As for storage, you can upgrade up to 2 terabytes for an additional cost, but you start with 256 GB.

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The increase in RAM will allow for a smoother experience with Apple Intelligence (it’s why Apple increased RAM to 8 gigabytes on the iPhone 16 models). Available with MacOS Sequoia 15.1, you’ll have access to features like Writing Tools, an overhauled Siri, Summaries for transcriptions in the Notes app, Smart Reply in Messages, and more. You can read all about these features, along with all the other new additions in Sequoia, in our roundup.

Apple Intelligence isn’t exclusive to the M4, but it’s clear that Apple is on a crusade to update all of its hardware so that Apple Intelligence is at the forefront of its operating systems. As Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman pointed out in his Power On newsletter, it took Apple three years to update the iMac with an M3 chip—the company launched the M4 version in 12 months.

Still, like the M3 iMac, the latest model is largely another spec bump. If you have a recent iMac—even the one from 2021—you can at the very least upgrade to the USB-C peripherals separately if you don’t need the bump in performance but want to finally ditch those Lightning accessories.

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