Apple’s Mac week: everything announced

Apple appears to person wrapped up its week of Mac announcements — and it had a batch to share. Along with updating respective devices crossed its Mac lineup with a much almighty M4 chip, Apple showed disconnected immoderate revamped accessories, too.

If you privation to drawback up connected each the news, here’s a speedy rundown.

The caller iMac comes with an upgraded M4 chip, offering up to a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU. It comes with a 24-inch show with an optional “nano-texture glass” to assistance trim glare, on with a basal 16GB of RAM.

The entry-level iMac starts astatine $1,299 and has 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports. There’s besides a much costly $1,499 exemplary with 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports. The caller iMac comes successful 7 colors: green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver.

Apple is giving its MacBook Pro a large upgrade arsenic well, with 3 caller options featuring a modular M4 chip, an M4 Pro, and its highest-performing M4 Max processor. The MacBook Pro comes successful some 14- and 16-inch models with the aforesaid nano-texture show enactment arsenic the iMac. And this clip around, the entry-level exemplary starts with 16GB of RAM.

The 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro is priced astatine $1,599, portion the 16-inch exemplary starts astatine $2,499. The laptops are disposable successful abstraction achromatic and metallic finishes.

The caller Mac Mini comes with an M4 spot and 16GB of RAM — each successful a smaller package, measuring conscionable 5 inches successful magnitude and width. Despite its size, the Mac Mini comes with respective ports, including 2 USB-C ports and an audio jack connected its front, on with ethernet, HDMI, and 3 Thunderbolt USB-C ports connected the back.

The Mac Mini starts astatine $599 with a modular M4 chip, but Apple bumps the terms to $1,399 with the much almighty M4 Pro.

Even though the MacBook Air didn’t get a afloat update this clip around, Apple is expanding the basal magnitude of RAM that comes with the M2 and M3-equipped versions of the laptops from 8GB to 16GB — apt to relationship for the summation of Apple Intelligence.

Before this change, it outgo $200 much to upgrade the MacBook Air’s RAM to 16GB. But now, some devices volition inactive vessel with the other memory, without a bump successful their starting prices.

Apple has finally brought USB-C to each of its Mac accessories, including the Magic Keyboard, the Magic Trackpad, and the Magic Mouse. While this is large and all, Apple still hasn’t changed the determination of the charging larboard connected the Magic Mouse, leaving it connected the underside of the device.

The caller Magic Mouse starts astatine $79; the Magic Keyboard starts astatine $99; and the Magic Trackpad starts astatine $129.

Apple highlighted the rollout of Apple Intelligence during each of its announcements. The motorboat introduces AI-powered penning tools and a redesigned Siri connected the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, but Apple plans to adhd different features, similar an integration with ChatGPT, successful December. You tin motion up erstwhile your instrumentality is updated, but there’s inactive a waitlist to entree the features.