Alright I know this is gonna disappoint a ton of you guys,
but I’m almost certain that the new larger iMac coming later this year
is STILL gonna have a chin, and I’m gonna explain why in this video using some common
sense as well as some hints and tidbits that I’ve recently figured out, so let’s get right into it!
Now before we begin, I want to give you guys some good news and mention that in my opinion,
there’s a 50/50 chance that the larger iMac actually comes with black bezels,
but I’m gonna get into that in just a minute.. But for now.. let’s talk about the chin.
The first question we have to answer is why Apple gave the new 24” iMac the chin in the first place.
A lot of people are gonna say that the only reason they kept it was so they could fit
the entire computer behind the chin and keep it as thin as possible.
Yes.. that is totally true, but in my personal opinion, that wasn’t the #1 reason.
I believe that Apple’s #1 requirement for the iMac redesign
was quite literally to keep the chin, and here’s why.
The 24” iMac is basically a reincarnation of the classic iMac G3, and we know that
because it had white bezels, a chin and essentially the same color options on
everything from the Mac itself to the mouse and the keyboard.
And if you think about it, every single iMac that featured the built-into the display concept
starting with the iMac G5 in 2004 came with a chin,
and then the 2007 iMac which came with a chin, and then the 2012 iMac which came with a chin.
And the main reason why they did that was because the chin is totally unique to Apple,
and it’s become an iconic design aspect for the iMac, making it instantly recognizable
compared to every other all-in-one PC out there.
And that’s why the 24” iMac has the chin.
It’s iconic and believe it or not, it’s the chin that sells it for Apple.
Want to know how I know that? Take a look at all of these all-in-one PCs. They basically all
have at least some sort of chin with branding on it, because they want it to look like the iMac.
But I did find a couple of them without chins, so take a guess, just by looking
at it, which brand this one is from? If you guessed HP, you’re wrong. It’s from Lenovo.
And how about this one? Who made this all-in-one? If you guessed Dell, you’re wrong, it’s from HP.
And what about this one? Yeh.. you get the point.. And that’s the main reason
why I think it makes sense for Apple to keep the chin for the larger iMac.
But don’t worry, the chin is actually gonna look quite a lot slimmer than the one on the 24” iMac,
and let me prove it to you!
Believe it or not, but there were actually 3 sizes of the Core 2 Duo iMac
with white bezels, a 17 inch, a 20 inch and a 24 inch, and if you look closely,
the chin is exactly the same thickness on each model, looking quite a bit slimmer on the 24”.
And then on the 2007 aluminum bezel models,
the chin was also the same thickness. And the same thing for the slimmer iMac design
that everyone has right now, both the 21.5” and 27” have the same exact chin thickness.
So here’s the point that I’m trying to make. The chin on the larger iMac is actually gonna
look pretty slim because it’s gonna be the same exact thickness as the one on the 24”,
but the display will be scaled up to as much as 30”, so the chin will look pretty slim,
like in this image created by a macrumors forum user.
And since I believe it’s gonna have a chin, it’s extremely unlikely that it’ll get a 32” display
because it'll simply be too large, being even bigger than the size of the Pro Display XDR.
Now since Apple is gonna scale the iMac up to basically look like a larger version
of the 24” iMac, they can get away with making the body itself thicker
while maintaining the same balanced ratio in terms of the dimensions.
For example, a 30” display is 25% larger than a 24” display, so they can easily make the body
up to 25% thicker, so instead of being 11.5mm thin like on the 24”, they can actually make the
larger iMac a couple of millimeters thicker without impacting the dimensions too much.
The current 27” iMac is already 15% thicker than the 21.5”,
so I expect them to do the same thing on the larger iMac, especially if it gets a 30” display.
What this essentially means is that Apple will actually be able to fit in a more powerful M1X
chip, along with all of the other components behind the chin, just like they’re doing with
the 24”, and if you think about it, the chin on the larger iMac is gonna be much longer,
allowing for a longer logic board with more space for other cooling components and whatever else.
So yeh, I’m actually pretty confident that Apple will still be able to fit
the entire computer in the chin of the larger iMac, even with much more performance.
And if that wasn’t enough for you,
here are even more pieces of evidence pointing to it getting a chin.
The new 24” iMac has a variety of different colors,
but one of them is missing, Apple’s signature Space Gray.
The fact that Apple left that color option out basically means that they’re planning to introduce
it in a larger iMac, and if that iMac didn’t have a chin, and it was all display and black bezels,
there wouldn’t really be that big of a point to the space gray color since you
could essentially only see it from the back or sides, so a chin makes sense to keep around.
But as far as the other color options, I honestly don’t know if all of them will make it,
or if Apple will try to keep the larger iMac for subtle,
but I actually think there’s a chance that Apple could keep the bezels white.
Because if you think about, Apple’s larger Macs have always looked
fundamentally identical to the smaller models, so giving it black bezels would be a bit weird unless
they decide to call it the iMac Pro, and then that would change everything.
I initially thought that that’s what Apple is gonna do, but after the release of the 24”,
it’s changed my perspective a little bit, and I actually think there’s a
chance that Apple might release two more iMac models, but that’s a topic for another video,
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As far as the specs of this new iMac, I think the display resolution will be
somewhere between 5.2 and 5.5K depending on if it’s getting a 28 or 30” display,
and I don’t think it’s gonna get a Mini-LED display, just standard LCD.
And as for the chipset, the absolute simplest way for Apple to manufacture
this iMac is to give every model the M1X chip, but there’s also a small chance it could have
a more expensive M1Z upgrade option, but I’m not really sure about this yet.
We also heard rumors about Apple working on a dedicated
graphics chip for a larger iMac coming in the 2nd half of this year,
so that will likely be an upgrade option that you’ll have to pay extra for.
It’ll definitely come with up to 32GB of RAM, or maybe even 64, but I’m not totally sure
about that, and we’ll probably have up to 8TB of storage just like on the current 27” iMac.
And there you guys go, that’s pretty much it! If you totally disagree with my point of view,
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