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Wild and unfounded speculation: I feel that the thinness of the new iMac was not an explicit design exercise, but rather a consequence of bringing the M1 over t
by angott 5y ago
Wild and unfounded speculation: I feel that the thinness of the new iMac was not an explicit design exercise, but rather a consequence of bringing the M1 over to the desktop. Because of how powerful the M1 is, they were just able to recycle the already thin laptop designs, putting them in a desktop enclosure. They couldn't do this before, because Intel mobile CPUs didn't match the performance of their desktop equivalents. And since those desktop CPUs had more demanding thermals, they couldn't make a thin iMac.
- flenserboy 5y agoWhile that seems to be the case, I bet Cook, with his supply-chain focus, was very excited to save a few grams of material here and there, knowing how it adds up.
- Grustaf 5y agoThe old iMacs were also pretty thin, relatively speaking. And they did emphasize that a lot in marketing. But they did choose to make the new iMacs thin rather than small, they could have tucked the computer part behind the display and done away with the chin, but they didn't.