Although the new M3 iMacs will not officially go on sale until tomorrow morning, Apple however, in recent days he has already managed to lend them to selected foreign media and YouTubers. Thanks to this, we can get a good picture of what to actually expect from them now - that is, on the eve of the launch of sales of new products. So how did iMacs M3 impress abroad?
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It is rather paradoxical that perhaps a bigger stir than the iMac itself was caused by Magic accessories that are still fitted Lightning port. Practically the whole world was counting on the introduction of the 24" iMac M3 to take advantage of Apple also to announce the transition Magic peripherals from Lightningto USB-C, which, however, nesthello Even TechRadar's Matt Hanson is annoyed. "Sticking to the same design brings some old nightmares, such as the charging port on the bottom. Magic Mouse, but also misunderstanding due to outdated Lightningu. Apple should have gone with the times and relied on USB-C,” he writes in his text. Brian Heater from TechCrunch agrees, saying it’s also time to switch to Magic peripherals from Lightningon USB-C.Macy's accessories are one of the few remaining remnants of theonewhich Lightning. For the most part, you won't mind, because your keyboard, mouse, and trackpadYou don't charge your iPhone as often as you do your iPhone. You also don't get dirt and other things stuck in your ports like you did with iPhones when you carried them in your pocket. But it's definitely time to Apple said goodbye to Lightning once and for all.'
That's what Luke Larsen of Digital Trends threw in Lightning u Magic He put peripherals aside and focused primarily on the performance of the iMac thanks to its new M3 chip. “The jump from M1 to M3 is really big. Although it is true that the intergenerational jumps are not very big, when you skip one generation between them, the difference is really noticeable," he writes. Brandon Hill from Tom's Hardware also praises the performance, but at the same time points out a number of shortcomings. One of them is, for example, 8 GB of RAM memory in the base with the impossibility of user upgrading to 16 GB. In the same way, the 256GB SSD in the base or the need to pay extra for gigabit ethernet or more Thunderbolt 4 ports will not please you. "Overall, the iMac is an excellent all-in-oneone a device that, in my opinion, needs to be re-evaluated and reconfigured,” he concludes his text.
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