

The front of the iMac and the base have a light pastel hue, while the edges and display back are darker (except for the silver option, which only has one shade). It also comes in flashy new shades to give you a splash of color to your setup. The 24-inch iMac packs in power and performance with the M1 chip. However, if you want the last three colors, you'll have to opt for the mid or high-end models. Ethernet cables directly plug into the power adapter since there is no ethernet port on the back (it's too thin).Īnother considerable change with the latest iMac is its seven shiny dual-tone colors: Blue, Green, Pink, Silver, Yellow, Orange, and Purple. The power cable now attaches magnetically to the back of the display with a highly durable and braided 2-meter cable. The overall volume of Apple's new iMac is 50% less than its predecessors. It's also incredibly thin at only 11.5mm, so it vanishes from the sides. You now get 4480-by-2520 resolution at 218 pixels per inch with support for one billion colors, and it has up to 500 nits brightness, Wide Color, and True Tone support. The iMac (2021) sports a beautiful 24-inch 4.5K Retina display, which is a big step up from the 21.5-inch before it. It's also the thinnest iMac yet, boasts a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and comes in seven fun colors.

You can do a good amount of disk cleanup on your own, and there are some excellent programs (both free and commercial) which can help you with those tasks.Only has two Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports (the high-end version has another two USB 3 ports)īottom line: The latest iMac boasts a gorgeous 24-inch 4.5K Retina display, packs in an 8-core M1 chip with up to 16GB unified memory, and can go up to 2TB in storage. (You are making backups to an external device, right?)įinally, when you begin this process, you might want to do as much disk cleanup/maintenance as possible. And the easiest way to do that is to use SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable backup. But upgrading might not be as "safe" or "OK" as doing a clean, fresh installation of the new OS, and then migrating/copying needed files, folders, settings etc. Maybe skip 2 of them and upgrade to Yosemite. I would advise not skipping "too many" of the various versions.

Third, you need to be concerned about any third party software you are using, and most likely, will need either to upgrade some/most/all of them to be compatible with the OS you want to move to, or possibly some of them might not work at all.įourth, for High Sierra, Apple introduced the APFS file system, so that could be a challenge. Secondly, there are 6 more recent versions you could install: First off, you are running OS 10.7.5, which is Lion.
