iMac review: Apple’s astonishing new processor shows its true colours

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The only problem, really, is that Apple has made a host of similar computers: late last year, a new Mac Mini, MacBook Air and Pro arrived, which were astonishingly, calmingly fast, too. Both the iMac and its earlier siblings – those new laptops and Mac Mini, but even now its iPad Pro – all use Apple’s M1 chip, the first it has designed itself for its computers. The iMac is, however, the first of Apple’s computers it has designed for that M1 chip, and it shows all the way through, from inside to out and from display to keyboard. Just like its fellow M1 computers, Apple has achieved what is surely the ultimate aim of all consumer computers: it’s so fast that you won’t really ever have to think about how fast it is.