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iMac (Mid 2009) and Xserve (2009)

Apple announced two products on 7 April 2009: iMac (Mid 2009) and Xserve (2009).

It was the 5th of 11 dated moments the archive holds for 2009, 27 days after the previous one, 11 March 2009.

iMac (Mid 2009) product photograph

Rafael Fernandez · CC BY-SA 3.0

What Apple announced

iMac (Mid 2009)

Mac · iMac · discontinued 7 March 2012

The iMac is a series of all-in-one desktop computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. Between 2006 and 2022, the iMac series used chipsets based on Intel architecture. While sold, it was one of three desktop computers in the Mac lineup, serving as an all-in-one alternative to the Mac Mini, and sat below the performance range Mac Pro. It was sold alongside a higher-end, Xeon-based iMac Pro from 2017 to 2021.

The earliest Intel iMacs reused the same white polycarbonate enclosure as the iMac G5. Later models shifted to aluminum and plastic, and then a unibody aluminum case. The iMacs released after October 2012 also featured a much thinner display, with the edge measuring just 5 mm. This design would persist until the line was discontinued.

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Xserve (2009)

Mac · Xserve · discontinued 31 January 2011

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

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Sources

  1. iMac (Mid 2009) · Wikipedia
  2. Xserve (2009) · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.