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Apple reveals the iMac with M6 chip and enhanced AI

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Memeburn reports that Apple today announced the new iMac featuring the superfast M6, delivering even more performance and powerful AI capabilities.

Apple Imac M6
Apple Imac M6. Image: Apple

In short

  • Apple today announced a new 24-inch iMac with the M6 chip for faster performance, an N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 support, faster SSD speeds, and more.
  • The M6 first arrived in the Mac mini and Mac Studio, but it's now available in Apple's entry-level iMac desktop machines.
  • Customers can pre-order the new iMac with M6 starting tomorrow, October 28, on apple.com/store and in the Apple Store app in 35 countries and regions, including the U.S.
Date
Tomorrow
Price
$1,499 with a 10-core CPU

What happened

Engadget reports that the iMac offers up to 2.5x faster performance in apps like Microsoft Excel, compared to iMac with M1, and up to 1.5x faster than M4, enabling quicker productivity tasks for families, aspiring creators, and small businesses.

Engadget reports that the iMac delivers up to 3.3x faster graphics performance for tasks including photo editing in Affinity, compared to iMac with M1, and up to 2x faster than M4, aiding content creators.

Engadget reports up to 12x faster on-device AI performance for prompt processing in LM Studio, compared to iMac with M1, and up to 5x faster than M4, allowing powerful AI models to run while keeping data private.

iMac with M6 is shown in green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver.
Image: Apple

Why it matters

  • Performance

    The reports describe a suite of performance gains across productivity, graphics, and AI tasks that position the iMac M6 as a significant upgrade over M4 and M1.

  • Availability

    News notes that pre-orders begin October 28 and shipments start November 6, framing the product launch schedule.

A user sits in front of iMac with M6 in green next to a sewing project while editing a video clip.
Image: Apple

What we know

The Verge states the latest iMac uses the M6 chip introduced in August with the Mac Mini, and notes a price starting from $1,499 with configurations including a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU, or a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU at $1,699 with 16GB of RAM.

MacRumors confirms the iMac retains the 24-inch Retina display and color options, adds up to 2TB storage and 32GB RAM, and details the SSD performance improvement with PCIe 5.0.

The Verge reports the M6 includes a dual 16-core Neural Engine and emphasizes on-device AI performance improvements over the M4 model.

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Sources

  1. Apple — Apple unveils new iMac with M6
  2. Engadget — Apple's iMac with M6 arrives promising a 'huge leap' in AI performance
  3. 9to5Mac — Apple launches new iMac with M6 chip, N1 wireless, faster Ethernet
  4. MacRumors — Apple Announces New iMac With M6 Chip and More
  5. The Verge — Apple refreshes the iMac with M6 chips
  6. Hacker News — New iMac with M6
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