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Apple iMac 2021 to be available in five colors, Pro Display XDR design, and 20-core Apple Silicon; Mac Pro redesign to resemble stacked Mac Minis
Apple iMac 2021 to come in five color options. (Image Source: FrontPageTech)
Apple is expected to launch redesigned Mac desktops including the iMac and Mac Pro later this year. Known leaker Jon Prosser has shared renders of what could be 2021 iMac and Mac Pro. The 2021 iMac is touted to be available in five color options with reduced bezels resembling a Pro Display XDR. The Mac Pro will be half the size of the current iteration and resemble a stack of Mac Minis. Both desktops will be powered by an upgraded Apple Silicon.
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Back in the dark days of Apple, the almost forgotten mid-1990s, there was a booming business of Mac Clones, licensed, Apple-ish systems running iOS 7 on RISC-based Power PC chips. The quality and designs were decidedly un-Mac-like, but the license business served as a lifesaving revenue bridge between Apple’s stumbling mid-1990s and the return of Steve Jobs.
Jobs killed the licensing business in 1997 and remade the Mac as a translucent and desirable objet d’digital art.
Since then, Apple’s maintained a vicelike grip on the tech and design specs for all Macintosh computers, repositioning them as bespoke, high-end, aspirational computers, systems that often offered less (at least in the way of specs) for more. Apple fans have long been willing to pay premium prices for Apple’s certain special something, but that’s also served to keep Macintoshes in the global market share minority.
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