At the moment, this iMac’s white-and-purple front and back look nothing like the predominantly black equipment I already have on my desk. There’s also something to be said for a computer that doesn’t look like anything else you can buy. It may not be the healthiest or most sensible way to approach a major electronics purchase, but it’s just how I feel my brain responding to a cute purple computer. The extra thought you put into buying it translates into additional emotional investment. It makes a statement.Ĭhoosing from a bunch of different color options is a simple way to make an impersonal slab of metal seem more personal-you picked your gadget’s color from an array of options, you did it for a reason, and other people can see that you did it. Even macOS is customized, with wallpapers and screensavers and a special accent color that are all the same color as your computer. The keyboard, wireless mouse, trackpad, and cables in the box are all color-matched, too. And the color you pick is obvious from the moment you open the box-its handle is color-matched. Just like the iPhone 12 and iPad Air 4, the new iMac comes in a total of seven colors, including the traditional silver and two-tone blue, plus green, red, yellow, orange, and purple options. It manages to pack everything into the thin case by use of advanced friction-stir welding, full-lamination display and micro engineering.After dedicating a decade or so to silver, black, and gold, in the past couple of years Apple has rediscovered the other parts of the visible light spectrum. It houses everything – display, processor, graphics, storage, memory and so on – within its super slim case. The iMac is, of course, a great example of Apple’s elegant industrial design. Here we speed test the Mid-2014 iMacs and look at which is best for you.

If you can afford the extra £160 upgrade it at time of purchase with the super-fast Fusion Drive.Īpple sells three versions of its 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop iMac, differentiated by processor speed, hard drive capacity and graphics card.

For that reason we recommend the mid-range £1,049, 21.5-inch iMac with 2.7GHz processor. The two slightly pricier iMacs are much faster, although the top-end model isn’t that much speedier than the mid-range model. For that price you get a Mac that is fine for everyday tasks but a little slow for more labour-intensive jobs like editing photos and videos, but it’s still capable of that too. The 21.5-inch iMac is a beautiful all-in-one desktop Mac, starting at a reasonable £899.

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