New iMac 2021 release date, price & specs for M1 iMac redesign

Looking for a new iMac in 2021? Read about the redesign rumours for a bigger screen M1 iMac and when the new iMac is coming out

Apple and design used to go hand in hand, helped somewhat by the presence of design guru Jony Ive who was the head of design at Apple until he left in 2019. We don’t doubt that Apple can continue to innovate beautifully designed products without Ive, but we are starting to feel concerned that the part of Apple’s DNA associated with design expertise has been locked away somewhere, because there are a number of products that have maintained the same design for a long long time.

Longest of all is the iMac. The iMac has not visually changed since 2009. Even then it was only a minor change – a slightly more tapered, thinner side-view made possible by the removal of the DVD drive (remember them?) Prior to that the Aluminium iMac design still familiar today had been introduced in 2007. 

This is one reason why we are hoping that the rumours are true and that in 2021 Apple will finally get around to redesigning the iMac. For more reasons why Apple needs to update the iMac design read: Why the iMac needs a redesign. 

It’s not only a redesign we are hoping for though. Having seen the achievements of Apple’s M1 Chip inside the MacBook Air, 13in MacBook Pro and Mac mini we can’t wait to see what Apple can do with its own M-series chips inside the iMac – and it seems that Apple is planning an even more powerful processor for the 2021 iMac, as we will discuss below.