Perhaps, the biggest design controversial of the M1 iMac is the white bezel. So, I did a quick mock up (on iOS Keynote) to see how it would look like.
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What if M1 iMac have black bezel?
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Can you do a green (the saturated version, not pastel) chin and stand with black bezel? Please. ?
That, I would have on my desk even though I don't like green. Not having those white bezels completely changes the look.
I kinda dig it, although this is more of a lime green. The color that Apple is calling "green" is more of a dark teal.
Nothing controversial about the off white bezel of the 2021 M1 iMac. It looks good, and I reckon is fine for most folks.
Pro types would be better off going with an M1 Mac Mini, paired their choice of monitor for their purposes.
Pro types would be better off going with an M1 Mac Mini, paired their choice of monitor for their purposes.
I'll be honest, when I saw the keynote I didn't like it. But after having thought about it a little more, I bought one and I kinda dig the off-white bezels. They blend into my wall, and they give it a lighter presence on the desk in my living room.
Computers are meant to be dark forbidding portals to the gates of eternal damnation (AKA The Internet). So black suits them better.
same here. Went to my local Apple Store the other day for a second time to Play around with the silver iMac and I actually do like the white bezels now. It fits my overall apartment design and my iMac will sit on a black desk against a white wall so it should blend in very well.
Pro types would be better off waiting for the 5k iMac replacement (or, equally, a replacement for the i5 and i7 Minis) with (hopefully) more cores, better GPU and larger RAM options - and, somehow, I wouldn't be surprised if those include some modern equivalent of "Space Grey".
Yeah, I don't think that sticking black bezels on the existing design (except, maybe, the silver version) really solves anything (the words "lipstick" and "pig" spring to mind). The problem is (a) having any non-neutral colours on the front distracting/clashing with what is on the screen and (b) any colour divide between the chin and the bezel (admittedly that was there on the old design, but at least then the second colour was neutral silver/grey).
A full black (well, some sort of dark textured finish) skin for the iMac showed up on Linus Tech Tips a month or two back - I'd link to it but searching for "iMac" and then sorting the results by date is apparently above YouTube's pay grade. Anyway - an all-black (ish) iMac looked really good from a distance, but in the close-ups it looked like someone had covered an iMac in black sticky-backed plastic (UK readers of a certain age will get the reference...) Plus it cost some ridiculous amount of money.
Whatever, if I want pretty colours on my computer I'll display them on the screen and it's the rest of the computer's job to stay the heck out of my perception. Nothing does that quite like black.
That was https://dbrand.com/shop/apple-imac-24-2021
Everything is discontinued. It was more or less a novelty or joke if someone wanted that.
I was initially in the "hell no" camp, fast forward to today I no longer have the slightest interest in a black bezel iMac and totally engrossed in my retro Yellow. In the near future I plan to just shove it back in the box for keeps and pick up yet another color with an off-white bezel.
