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“A sweet little OS that kept your battery alive longer than most of us keep New Years resolutions.”
“Intel inside, warmth outside — gone but still glowing on a million desks.”
For sixteen years, from 2006 onward, the Intel-based iMac was Apple's friendly all-in-one desktop — the whole computer living behind the screen, no tower required. It sat comfortably in the lineup between the modest Mac Mini and the mighty Mac Pro, and ran alongside its fancier sibling, the Xeon-powered iMac Pro, from 2017 to 2021. It started life in white polycarbonate borrowed from the iMac G5, moved through alumin
The end came as Apple moved the Mac to its own processors: the Apple silicon iMac arrived in 2021, and the 21.5-inch Intel model was discontinued that same year, followed by the 27-inch in March 2022 after the Mac Studio and Studio Display were announced. The Intel iMac never got a dramatic exit — just a slow, dignified handover to its successor. Not a bad send-off for a machine that spent a decade and a half holding
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“A sweet little OS that kept your battery alive longer than most of us keep New Years resolutions.”
“Rode cheaper than a coffee and never once blamed traffic on the schedule.”
“Born for a birthday, gone by spring: Mario never overstayed a party.”