Apple unveils new iMac with M6

Apple today announced the new iMac featuring the superfast M6, delivering even more performance and powerful AI capabilities. PRESS RELEASE October 27, 2026 Apple unveils new iMac with M6, delivering a major boost in performance and AI capabilities With blazing-fast performance, enhanced connectivity, Siri AI, and macOS 27, all in a stunning design in seven vibrant colors, the world’s best all-in-one gets even better Powered by M6, the new iMac delivers a massive leap in performance and AI capabilities — all in its strikingly thin all-in-one design, available in seven vibrant colors. From families and aspiring creators to small businesses, users will experience the speed and power of M6 in everything they do.

Featuring a faster CPU and GPU with Neural Accelerators in each core, it blazes through everyday apps and multitasking while delivering powerful performance for creative workflows like photo and video editing. For Intel-based upgraders, the leap is even greater, with up to 18x faster performance than the most popular Intel-based iMac. 1 And together with the Dual 16-core Neural Engine, the new iMac delivers up to 5x faster on-device AI performance than M4.

1 Whether users are taking advantage of Siri AI and Apple Intelligence features across apps and macOS, running local AI models, or vibe coding, iMac is a powerful platform for AI while preserving user privacy. 2 Connectivity gets even better with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, along with available 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet and storage that is up to 2x faster, so apps and large projects launch in an instant.

Apple announced the first iMac update in two years, bringing its M6 chip to the all-in-one desktop. The new model features a 24-inch 4.5K Retina display, up to a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, and Wi-Fi 7.

It offers more cores and more performance per core than the iMac M5. Apple’s iMac with M6 arrives promising a ‘huge leap’ in AI performance.

Today Apple introduced a new iMac with the M6 chip, combining powerful performance upgrades and several other improvements. Apple launches new iMac with powerful M6 chip.

Pre-orders open Wednesday, October 28, at 10:10 a.m. Pacific Time on apple.com and in the Apple Store app, and availability starts Friday, November 6.

Big Tech Apple Apple’s iMac with M6 arrives promising a ‘huge leap’ in AI performance It offers more cores and more performance per core than the iMac M4. Powered by Apple’s shiny new M6 processors, it promises a "major boost" in performance and AI capabilities thanks to extra cores and new Neural Accelerators in each core.

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Pricing begins at $1,499 for the 10-core model with two Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports and $1,699 for the 12-core model with four Thunderbolt 4 ports. Both models are available in blue, green, pink, yellow, purple, orange, and silver – colors that are unchanged from the M4 iMac.

The M6 first arrived in the Mac mini and Mac Studio, but it’s now available in Apple’s entry-level iMac desktop machines. As we saw before, the M6 chip offers not only more performance per core, but more cores in total with up to a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU and Dual 16-core Neural Engine.

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That processor, along with faster 170GB/s memory bandwidth, will make the iMac twice as fast for graphics performance compared to the previous iMac M4 model, accelerating intensive tasks like photo editing and gaming, Apple said. Models start with 16GB of unified memory, with options for 24GB and 32GB.

M6 iMac Pre-Orders and Release Date Announced.