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It’s time for a new iMac, and here are 9 improvements we’d like to see

The current iMac design is positively ancient, by computer design standards. The 27-inch Retina iMac, with its slim design and 5K resolution, was launched in the fall of 2014. It was really only a small tweak on the existing “slim unibody” iMac that dates back to 2012, itself only a thinner version of the unibody iMac design that goes back to 2009.

The basic look and physical features of the iMac have barely changed in a decade.

It’s a testament to the elegance of the design that it’s still desirable after all that time, but it’s well past time for a change. Recently, Apple updated the iMac line (see page 7) with new internal hardware, but the design and features remain fundamentally unchanged.

We can’t tell you what a new iMac should look like (we want Apple’s design prowess to surprise us!) but we can describe some feature gaps we really want to see addressed.

HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT

Set an iMac down

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