![]() ![]() Truthfully, if I actually owned that 2015 iMac, I would very likely be trying to rationalize an upgrade to the 2021 version. ![]() Given the cadence of computer upgrade cycles, which are typically quite a bit longer than those of smartphones, this seems reasonable - six years between desktops. But for the purposes of this review, the defining comparison is that now-hulking 2015 iMac squatting on my desk. Your experience may well be different on a more recent machine. But things like Handoff, which allows you to, say, start composing an email on your iPhone and finish it on your Mac, seem a bit more seamless on the 2021 machine So too is the entire experience of using it. Both machines are running the latest version of Appleās macOS Big Sur operating system, and they run it well. I will not go so far as to say that the latest iMac makes the 2015 iMac I've been working on since the beginning of the pandemic look like that execrable old Presario, but it brings with it a similar thrill of progress, my work life made better by jumping from one to the other. It succeeds the 21.5-inch iMac and features a 24-inch 4.5K Retina display with nearly 11.3 million pixels and, in a nod to the original iMac, comes in an array of colors - colors - green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver. The new iMac is available for purchase now and will be arriving to customers beginning this Friday, May 21. Back in the day, it often didn't just work at all - and if it did, you were lucky. These days, "it just works" is near truism. It made a part of my daily life immediately better in a number of tangible ways and probably a few intangible ones as well. ![]() It was friendly and intuitive, and it just worked. For me, that first iMac has long been Apple's best simply because it so dramatically improved my work life. When Apple debuted the first iMac in 1998, it revealed the Presario desktop to be the anvil of plastic and error messages it always was. It was my work desktop, and the last one I used before switching to the first iMac. I mention this because the Presario is a touchstone for me when it comes to thinking about today's tech products. ![]()
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