This feature is finally becoming a reality

Since spring, the Apple world has been waiting for a new, larger iMac with an Apple chip. As is well known, the current model only offers a 24-inch display. Now we are finding out: We will get the iMac in “XL” in spring and with it a long-awaited feature.

In the spring, Apple presented a completely new iMac with an M1 chip, but “forgot” a successor to the still current iMac with a 27-inch display. It has not been updated and still has to be satisfied with an Intel chip. So how long do we have to wait for a bigger iMac?

iMac with 27-inch mini LED display: In spring with 120 Hz

Unfortunately, nothing will come of it this year, according to Apple and display expert Ross Young. On the other hand, we can expect one new iMac with 27-inch display in the first quarter of 2022 (Source: Ross Young via MacRumors). Ergo: A performance sometime between January and March next year is therefore possible. But that’s not all, the expert knows more about the display.

So the screen should have a Mini LED backlight and are therefore marketed by Apple as an XDR display, equivalent to the expensive Pro Display XDR, for example. Likewise, according to Young, the screen of the iMac “XL” support ProMotion and thus offer a variable screen refresh rate between 24 and 120 Hz. The new MacBook Pros last received such a feature in 2021. It is also known from the iPad Pro and recently also from the iPhone 13 Pro.

So far, the current iMac is only available with a 24-inch display in the video:

An Apple monitor will be added later

Originally Ross mentioned an external display with the mentioned features, but later had to correct himself. As a result, a new iMac was actually meant, but could be a comparable screen from Apple at a later date appear. Further technical details of the nine iMac with a 27-inch display are not known, so speculations can be made, especially with regard to Apple’s choice of processor and the resolution of the screen.

The predictions of the display expert turned out to be correct, for example, he correctly predicted the display of the iPad mini 6 or the ProMotion support for the recently introduced MacBook Pro.

Which processor is in the iMac “XL”? An assessment by Sven Kaulfuss: In my justified assumption, Apple will initially install the M1, which we already know, in the standard model, just to be able to offer an inexpensive alternative. However, it should also versions with the new Apple M1 Pro and Apple M1 Max give. Apple could then market these variants as “iMac Pro” and thus present a successor to the model discontinued this year.