Apple refreshes the iMac with new M6 chips
Apple has updated its iMac all-in-one desktop with M6 chips, with prices starting at $1,499 and a design that looks largely unchanged.
Apple, the US technology company, has updated its iMac, an all-in-one desktop computer, with M6 chips. The new generation was introduced today, ahead of the company's "Pro and Tell" event scheduled for Wednesday. Prices start at $1,499, and the design appears to be largely the same as before.
What changes
The update is mainly about performance. The M6 is the same chipset Apple launched in August with the Mac Mini. It is the company's first chip built on a 2-nanometer process, and it includes a dual 16-core Neural Engine meant to boost performance when running AI tasks on the device itself.
M6 configurations start with a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU. The previous iMac with the M4 chip had an 8-core CPU.
Why it matters
The last major iMac update came two years ago, when Apple gave the computer a colorful M4 overhaul. This time the company is skipping the M5 series on this hardware, which makes the jump from M4 to M6 larger than a standard one-generation upgrade.
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