My first real job out of college (I say “real” as if I didn’t spend several long years working out of a Walgreens and Pier 1 Imports, in case you ever need boxes or furniture moved) was in a small local newspaper covering the north shore of Long Island. There, in that confined office where the ‘70s-era wood floorboards moaned underneath the ancient, never-vacuumed carpet, we had the pleasure of completing our work on an assortment of then-recent 21.5-inch iMacs. They were the spot of newness in a place that felt lost to time. I wish I could say the same thing about the latest iMacs, now with M6 chips.

Back then, the iMac, even in the age before M-series chips, was a lifeline in those long, long hours of endless layout sessions. A decade since that time, the new M6 iMac feels like Apple’s most casual release of the year, a simple design that works perfectly well for most people, but it desperately needs refreshment with some amount of modernity to push it over the top.

The latest iMac isn't a huge upgrade, but what's here is a great 24-inch all-in-one that requires spending too much for upgrades.

The performance you get from the 24-inch M6 iMac is about right for its starting price of $1,499. However, the configuration you actually want with four Thunderbolt 4 ports and the extra CPU and GPU cores will demand at least $1,699. And here’s the worst part: Apple will only give you 256GB of SSD storage at its entry-level price.

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