iMac 27 “, Apple would have evaluated three prototypes. And news on the new Mac Pro

Apple would have evaluated at least three different 27-inch iMac prototypes, although so far there are no concrete clues that suggest an heir for the past generation, silently removed from the official store in March. The indiscretion comes from Amethyst and originates in March, when a member of the forum of macrumors.com shared information about the prototypes of the 27 “iMac that Apple would create in 2021.

The rumor comes from an acquaintance of Amethyst, but if the question is why you give credit to a user of a forum unknown to most, the answer is simple: he had managed to get the details on the Mac Studio before the “usual” informants , those considered most reliable, e the information in hindsight was accurate, from the name of the machine to the information on the CPU and GPU cores of the M1 Max that would accompany it at launch.

In short, he has earned a bit of trust, so it is at least worthwhile to listen to the “new” information he has managed to obtain. on the 27-inch iMac and that they are only circulating now, over four months later. According to Amethyst, Apple would therefore have screened three prototypes, two in August 2021 and the third in November 2021:

• [agosto ’21] same design as the iMac with Intel chip released in 2020 but with M1 chip
• [agosto ’21] same design as 24-inch iMac and same chip (M1) but with 27-inch display
• [novembre ’21] same design as the 24-inch iMac but with 27-inch XDR display, black finish and M1 Max chip.

The source confided that the November prototype was (in March) the last prototype, and the fact that nothing was boiling in the pot was not a good omen. for the future of the 27 “iMac. It goes without saying that this is information that is impossible to verify, so despite the fact that the user has proved to be reliable in the past, they must still be handled with caution.

At present the fate of the all-in-one Mac range is all in the hands of the 24-inch iMac with M1 chip, and the fact that the flow of rumors about the 27-inch iMac has slowly subsided it usually means that there aren’t any concrete plans at Apple Park. Instead, there would be for an iMac Pro: Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, usually well informed about what is going on around Cupertino, spoke about it earlier this month. But the wait shouldn’t be short. According to the American journalist, in fact, the iMac Pro would have the M3 chip, so, well that goes, it will be necessary be patient until 2023.

The indiscretion always comes from Amethyst on the next Mac Pro, Apple’s ultra-high-performance machine. According to information gathered from the user based on the logic board of a pre-production specimen, it could have some scary specs: one CPU with a total of 40 coresof which 32 are high-performance and only 8 are dedicated to efficiency, and one 128-core GPU.

The card protagonist of the rumor would include at least one PCIe x16 slot and none for RAM, but this does not mean – the user specified – that there is not even on the definitive logic card of the Mac Pro that will arrive on the market. Furthermore, he concluded, despite the pre-production schedule, stability with macOS would already be exemplary. According to information shared recently by Gurman, the new Mac Pro will arrive later this year.