Large iMacs Gone Forever?

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@jzw

A Mac mini + Studio Display will be in a similar region cost-wise and is essentially the same (performance and display-wise) as what you’d get with a 27" iMac.

A Mac mini is limited to 16 GB RAM, which differentiates it quite a bit from the 27" iMac.

(And pricing out a mini at 16/512 plus display gets me to $2700, which I guess is a ‘similar region’ but still nearly 20% more)

@jzw

Stepping back, though, I think Apple’s comment about the Mac Pro being the only model left to update to Apple Silicon is because they have already transitioned the iMac. The 27" is just an iMac variant

Maybe, but they told Ars Technica that the 27" was EOL, which suggests they did see it as distinct from the 24".