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It makes a lot more sense if you look at the iFixit teardown. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+M1+24-Inch+Teardown/142850?srsltid=AfmBOopz2JD1FkjrWa3HxhQIZ4

• alberth 2y ago
  Does it though? The iMac is basically the same as the M4 iPad Pro, and the iPad Pro doesn't have a chin.
  • wolrah 2y ago
    > The iMac is basically the same as the M4 iPad Pro, and the iPad Pro doesn't have a chin. Cooling seems like it might be a factor here. The iMac's display is probably going to be run at a brighter (and thus hotter) setting AND it's more likely to be used to do things that require high load for extended periods of time, so putting it in its own space probably helps.
    • seec 2y ago
      Yes that's mostly the reason. But considering there are report of display issues like we used to on poorly cooled Intel iMac (those things would get to 90 degree at the PSU, being over 50 degrees on the aluminum case outside) I would say this design is largely a failure. They should just have separated everything in the foot, that would have made sense. Some sort of modern Sunflower iMac if you will. But Apple is more obsessed with thinness than practical design, so we get an impossibly thin iMac will all the flaws that brings...
  • dagmx 2y ago
    iMac has active cooling, more ports and more power available to it to drive those ports (though the PSU is external, it’s still gotta have the internal circuitry to deliver that). Those all do have to go somewhere.