M3 iMac — brilliant but is it in danger?
My new iMac arrived yesterday, and I have some concerning thoughts about its future
I’ve written recently about my love affair with iMacs and yesterday’s arrival of my latest one the M3 iMac so far hasn’t disappointed me — in fact, it left me buzzing.
After Apple’s latest event, most people seemed to be taken by the MacBook Pros and the new space black colour in particular. I know Scary Fast was predominately a MacBook event, but there was no way I was in the market for a replacement MacBook. My M1 Max is only 18 months old and costs way too much to be pushed aside so early in life. That Mac is my mainstay — an absolute workhorse and I love it.
No, what interested me far more was the M3 chip coming to the iMac range. When Apple silicon iMacs were first launched back in the spring of 2021 I wasn’t writing or making content about Macs and tech gear, so to buy it when I had a perfectly good 27-inch iMac made little sense. Back then I wasn’t editing videos either, so although the Intel machine was occasionally found to be lagging, by and large it was still doing just fine.
But it’s a different playing field now. The M1 MacBook was my first taste of Apple silicon and then I took another bite of the apple (sorry about the pun) when I got the M2…
