The amazing M3 iMac — 1 month later
I happen to love it, but is it right for you?
I’ve pretty much been using the M3 iMac solidly since it arrived just under a month ago — and on the whole, I’ve been delighted with it — but would I recommend it to you probably…but I’ll come back to that a bit later on.
The ins & outs of it…
The first thing I want to talk about is the I/O.
I ordered the base model as I figured I wouldn’t be using it an awful lot — it would be my backup Mac so the fact it only had the two Thunderbolt 3 ports was no big issue for me — but the important thing is that they are both Thunderbolt 3 meaning I can get speeds of up to 40 Gb/s.
On the odd occasion I need more I/O I can easily use my Anker hub anyway which offers all the expansion I could ever need — even an ethernet connection. Of course, if you choose the models that are higher spec’d than this one you’d get a pair of Gen 2 USB 3.1 ports as well — although they only have speeds of 10 Gb/s.
All iMacs come with a 3.5mm headphone jack on the side — being only 11.3mm thick it was the only place to put the jack but I do question who would use it anyway. If you are going to use headphones surely you’d use a pair of AirPods Max or AirPods Pro and not a wired pair — and you’d need to…
