https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-are-here-and-they-look-powerful-and-p-1846717596

Last month, Apple discontinued two iMac configurations with either 512GB and 1TB of SSD storage for the 21.5-inch iMac with 4K display, fueling speculation of an Apple Silicon-based iMac announcement. The rumors were true: Not only did Apple officially announce the iMacs are getting its impressive M1 processors, but Apple’s new iMacs finally be available in colors other than gray.

The new iMac looks more like Apple’s Pro Display XDR, so the back is flat rather than curved, and the side profile is slimmed down to just 0.6 inches (11.5 millimeters) thin, and it features a 24-inch, 4.5K Retina display with 11.3 million pixels, and 500 nits of brightness. All the new iMacs will be available in all the bold colors of the rainbow. (It’s still keeping its signature gray, though.) Happy to see Apple is embracing color for Macs again, which it abandoned after the iMac G3.Apple plans to launch its new iMacs starting at $1,299 ($1,249 for education) for a 7-core processor, and $1,499 for an 8-core processor.

What Apple didn’t talk about much as the specs of the processor in its new iMacs. It was rumored that the iMacs would have had a new M1 processor with 12 total cores instead of eight like the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini. However, the new iMacs are only getting the “standard” M1 chip, with an eight-core CPU and eight-core GPU, and that’s probably why less attention was paid to the processor and more to the new iMac design. And because these specs are the same, its likely the new iMacs will have the same performance as the MacbookPro, for instance, which is disappointing.

Each model comes with just 256GB SSD storage, and the more expensive version comes in more colors: green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver. The cheaper model comes in green, pink, blue, and silver. There’s also a $1,699, 8-core model that comes with 512GB of SSD storage, but all models will have 8GB of memory.