Apple has confirmed that the 27-inch iMac has reached end of life.
Andrew Cunningham writing for Ars Technica
Woah…
Well, this throws a bit of a wrench into my Good, Better, Best Mac Lineup theory.
I’m not really sure what to think about this. Of course, I’m shocked. The 27 inch iMac was my go-to computer since 2014 when they announced the first Retina one. That 2014 iMac served me well until I got a 27 inch iMac Pro in 2019.
Maybe, I should have seen this coming when I sold my iMac Pro three months ago and bought an M1 Max MacBook Pro. It was a gamble at the time, and I immediately missed the big, beautiful screen of the iMac Pro, and… nothing else.
I can’t tell you how many times I added an LG UltraFine 5K to my cart and hovered over the checkout button. But I just couldn’t do it. I hated the black plastic look, the wobbly stand, and the poor reliability.
I took the gamble selling the iMac Pro. I hoped that someday there would be a good monitor option again. I truly hoped that Apple would make that monitor, but I wasn’t sure if they ever would.
Now they have. I ordered it the moment it went on sale. And now I find myself sitting here, thinking about the iMac 27 inch. How much I love that computer. How amazing it has been for me, for Apple, and for millions of other people. How I’m sad to see it go. And yet, I abandoned it before Apple did.
That 27 inch iMac really was made for me. I loved it dearly. And now it’s going away, presumably forever. And I’ll miss it. But these new MacBook Pros are so good, and that Apple Studio Display is finally here! And, if I’m honest… once I got over the initial shock, I’m not terribly sad to see the iMac 27 inch go. And that’s crazy!
You were an incredible computer, and you served us well. But your time as come. Goodbye, iMac 27 inch.
Just a thought… Apple saying the “27 inch” iMac has reached end of life doesn’t exactly mean there will never be another large iMac. Could we someday see an iMac Pro with a 32 inch screen? Only time will tell.