Apple iMac 24" M4
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Review: 2024 iMac M4 24" (Green) Let me start by saying that the 2024 iMac M4 is an absolute powerhouse — fast, smooth, efficient, and everything I could hope for on the inside. Performance-wise, it's phenomenal. I'm genuinely thrilled with what this machine can do. Apple’s M4 chip delivers in spades, and that’s the main reason I kept it. Now for the outside. I chose the green model, and while the green on the metal body is quite nice, the green on the bottom screen bezel is a completely different shade — and not in a good way. To make things worse, the white border around the screen gives off a very retro vibe, and not in the stylish sense. It reminds me of the iMac G4 from 2002. That was 22 years ago. To put it bluntly, you wouldn’t stick a brand-new Lamborghini engine into a 22-year-old car body and expect applause. Sitting next to my old, elegant 27" iMac, the new model honestly looks... awkward. Dated. Even cheap, despite being anything but. I find myself having to convince my eyes to ignore the aesthetics so I can appreciate the internals — and that’s a shame. I’ll say it again: the 2024 iMac is a triumph of performance. But as for looks? Apple, what were you thinking? And while we’re at it — why on earth did you stop making the 27" iMac? Bring it back.
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Review Update: The Illusion of High Design (An Accessibility Nightmare) Since my initial review, I’ve hit a massive wall with the 2024 iMac. I previously noted that Apple essentially crammed a Lamborghini motor into a visual shell that looks like an old sedan, giving us a machine that feels completely reminiscent of their 2002 model rather than a premium forward-thinking desktop. But it gets worse. I recently discovered a fundamental flaw that highlights just how patronizing Apple's design philosophy has become: you are strictly forbidden from changing the text color of your desktop folder labels. They are locked to a thin white font. Most people have no idea this basic feature is missing until they actually need to change the colour of the font. As my eyesight isn't what it used to be, trying to read thin white type over a bright, deeply meaningful personal background became an absolute nightmare. From Apple's point of view my only option was to change my background picture to a darker colour in order to POP the white text colour. I am forced to ask: What right does Apple have to take away this basic choice from me? I am the owner and the everyday user of this product. It sits on my desk. I paid a premium price for it. Yet Apple’s design team has decided their rigid, uniform aesthetic overrides my actual, physical need to see my own screen. True premium design should serve the user’s accessibility needs, not force the user to compromise their vision to protect a corporate brand identity. If you have less-than-perfect eyesight and want to use a bright personal photo as your wallpaper, be warned: this "powerhouse" chip will leave you straining your eyes just to read a folder name. Shame on Apple for prioritizing control over basic usability. Amazing you can change the colour of the folder but not the colour of the text that names it: its white or nothing.