Apple iMac Updates: Apple PC Finally Shares The Spotlight This Year, Will Come With Kaby Lake

With iPhone 7 removing its headphone jack and MacBook Pro battery inconsistencies, 2016 is not really a bad one for Apple, but not really a good one either. At the start of 2017, rumors about a new Apple iMac started circulating on the Internet.  This might be the one that can save Apple from its demise.

Apple's iMac has seen minimal improvements for the past few years, with the latest being on 2015 when it was upgraded with Retina Class screen resolution. This led fans to think that Apple is abandoning their desktop product line. But it is proven that that is not quite the case as the iMacs are getting a revamp this year.

According to Macworld, Intel's latest chip, the Kaby Lake, will be the one powering the new iMacs. Kaby Lake processors support Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1 and DisplayPort 1.2 which makes it possible to be the ideal chip for the new iMac. It is said that the 27-inch iMac will be carrying Core i7 Kaby Lake chip as spotted on Best Buy's website. It will use the same 32 GB of RAM and 2TB Fusion Drive.

AMD has a contract with Apple to supply the discrete graphics chips for the next iMac 27-inch model. The discrete graphics card will only be available for 27-inch iMacs. 21.5 inch iMacs will be housing Intel's Integrated Graphics Card.

The new iMac was rumored to be slated to launch last October, but to fans' dismay, no new iMac was launched. According to Macworld, the best iMac to boot at this date is the 27-inch iMac that has quad-core Intel Core i5. For $1,999, you can get a 3.2 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, decent 8GB of RAM and 1 TB of Fusion Drive. This also features the Retina 5K display and AMD Radeon R8 M390 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory.

iMacs are still a decent piece of devices that packs power and display. But compared to how Microsoft invests on improvements for its surface Pro and Surface Studio, iMacs are being left behind. Apple would have to do something big for their iMacs to be able to compete with Microsoft.