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    24-INCH M1 iMAC REVIEW: CUTTING-EDGE IN FULL COLOR

    Jun 15, 2021 14 minutes
    BY ROMAN LOYOLA

    The iMac was long overdue for a change. Its basic design is about 17 years old, and sure, it had some changes happen during that time, but they were incremental and didn’t alter the way we think about the iMac. To its benefit, it was a design that worked for a long while, but over the past couple of years, the iMac was feeling dated.

    With the new 24-inch iMac, the iMac line gets the new life that it needed, and Apple succeeds in making the iMac exciting again. The redesign starts with the bold use of color on the outside and a new slim and minimalist design, and it ends with Apple’s impressive M1 system on a chip (SoC) inside. It all combines to make a cutting-edge desktop computer that looks fantastic in any setting.

    Apple offers three standard configurations of the 24-inch iMac. This review takes a look at the $1,699 model, which has an 8-core M1 SoC, 8GB of memory, an 8-core GPU, a 512GB SSD, gigabit ethernet, and Touch ID.

    A BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW OF COLORS

    The idea of an iMac offered in an array of colors isn’t new—it’s an idea Apple first established with the iMac G3 in 1999. When the iMac G4 was released (the sunflower model with a dome base and a floating display), the color selection went away. Apple stuck with white on the iMac for a while before switching to aluminum in 2007. It’s been silver and black until now (except for the space-gray iMac Pro released in 2017 and discontinued this year).

    The color selection is limited to four choices with the $1,299 model. If you spend more, you get three more color options. Here are the colors that are available for each model.

    $1,299 24-inch iMac: Blue, green, pink, silver

    $1,499 24-inch iMac: Blue, green, pink, silver, orange, purple, yellow

    $1,699 24-inch iMac: Blue, green, pink, silver, orange, purple, yellow

    The colors on each iMac are offered in two tones, with a dark tone on the back and a pastel-like hue on the front. The model in our review is pink, and boy, it is pretty. But while Apple calls this model “pink,” it’s really only pink on the front. The back is a rich and

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