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This is the one I've been waiting for to replace my 2020 iMac 5K which has been glitching lately playing YouTube videos and consuming 100% CPU.

Getting this with a Studio Display, 64 GB RAM, a fully loaded M4 Max, and 4 TB SSD so this is basically a slide-in replacement for my iMac.

The Ultras have way more horsepower and multiprocessing than I need, and the faster M4 performance cores will make this the snappiest Mac yet for normal workloads.

With 4 Thunderbolt 5 ports on the rear, the Studio Display will leave three each with a Thunderbolt controller behind it (unlike the 2020 iMac which shared a single controller between the two ports). A new keyboard will add TouchID support to speed security interruptions.

This should be over 3x faster than my core-i9 iMac (which is still my daily driver due to its superior screen real estate), with six times faster graphics with hardware ray tracing - not to mention support for Apple Intelligence. The 2020 iMac will replace the old 2017 iMac 5K as the family computer (which no longer has current macOS support).

Splitting up the processor and display will make for cheaper and smoother upgrades in the future too - though given the power of this new hardware it's hard to see needing upgrades much in the future.