Honestly any design change will hit the iMac Pro first then to the regular iMac later. I would say the iMac Pro will look like the xdr monitor while the normal iMac would maybe get smaller bezels and the original iMac Pro’s cooling setup
The iMac sells way more. It's Apple's 'mainstream' desktop flagship. The iMac Pro got the cooling and space grey, basically. I don't see them as bank breaking to add to the standard iMac.
Even the Mini has dark grey on it now.
There's no reason for the design case to to hit the iMac Pro 1st when the iMac sells way more...and the new design can be introduced on both.
Sure, we can't rule out Apple doing the Pro monitor design on the iMac Pro and a bezel trim on the regular iMac...but the to be consistent with recent design moves. The iMac will need a new dark grey colour and probably a bezel trim.
To me, I only see consolidation of the iMac Pro and iMac into...? The iMac Pro. Priced at £1700-£3500.
It allows for ambitious design, specs and cooling. And if they want to keep the extensible iMac Pro 'Xeon' around it makes sense to keep an ambitious design consistent across both for supply chain cost reduction?
The iMac 5k got an expensive monitor back in the day and the 'very nice' tear drop tapering. That's a long time ago now.
A new design is over due. Putting it on a niche product derived from a mainstream flagship desktop doesn't make sense to me.
They want to sell more iMacs. They need to make it more sexy. If it's anything like the challenging XDR monitor design I think they'll sell loads.
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All Apple needs to do is this with the external design and I will be happy!
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That's a smart and evolutionary bezel trim. I quite like it. Sure, I'd take it.
It's not a design revolution though. *looks at the XDR...
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It was interesting in the past. It was a centrepiece of Mac design. It isn't interesting now because it has been exactly the same for too many years, and almost the same for even longer.
Good point. I'd like to see it fly the flag for innovation Mac design for mainstream desktop Macs.
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I may never understand why people care at all about bezel size. I just want a thicker case with adequate (and quiet) cooling so that they can contain a modern and performant CPU and GPU. Everything else is just cosmetics.
It's never 'just' cosmetics with Apple. They kickstarted the design revolution with computers.
To Steve Jobs, it did matter. To Ive.
With the 'swan song' Mac Pro design, Apple clearly values engineering and design.
The iMac is up next. It's way over due.
Sure, we all want better specs. But that design is getting very stale now. Apple are coasting otherwise.
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I can think of 2 reasons:
1. Many people are constrained on desk space, especially those using an iMac at home. Smaller bezels mean less desk space is needed.
2. Screens can be closer in multiple display setups.
Two very good reasons. More desktop space is great. It's the iMac's biggest feature. Be interesting to have slimmer bezels to have two iMacs working side by side...
It could give us, in theory, a 30 inch workspace in the same 27 inch model. Or even, with bit of effort, an XDR iMac with 32 inches of 6k gorgeous ness.
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