As Apple continues to cull its catalog of Intel-powered Macs, it seems to be just like the 21.5-inch iMac is lastly being put out to pasture. Yet one other causality of Apple’s shift to utilizing its homegrown M1 processor in each product.

Apple quietly pulled the entry-level PC from Apple Store Online this week, Mac Rumors reviews. In an announcement to the outlet, Apple confirmed that the machine is being discontinued and can now not be bought in Apple shops. According to archived information reviewed by 9 to 5 Mac, the 21.5-inch iMac’s itemizing seems to have been taken down someday on Friday. Not that it was significantly simple to search out within the first place, because the itemizing had apparently been buried on a comparatively hard-to-find retailer web page. Additionally, when you deliver up the 21.5-inch iMac on Apple’s product comparability web page, a “Buy” button no longer appears beneath a picture of the product.

As for the PC itself, Apple bought the 21.5-inch iMac in a single configuration that, for simply $1,099, obtained you a four-generation previous, dual-core Intel processor, a 1080p show, and a terabyte of storage. Apple already dropped two different configurations, the choices for 512GB and 1TB of SSD storage for the 21.5-inch iMac with 4K show, again in March.

The discontinuation comes simply six months after Apple first confirmed off its M1-powered iMacs, which joined the ranks of product strains like the MacE-book Pro, MacE-book Air, and Mac Mini that Apple has revamped with its new proprietary processor.

This is all just about par for the course for Apple. Even earlier than it began phasing out its Intel-powered machines and shifting over to the M1 processor, the tech big has a historical past of conserving its legacy Macs and different outdated product strains out there for some time earlier than quietly axing them with out providing any clarification. We’ve reached out to Apple for remark and will replace this weblog ought to we hear again.

Apple’s lineup of Intel-based iMacs isn’t fully useless but, although. For now, you possibly can nonetheless get a 27-inch iMac in a few completely different configurations, however how lengthy these will stay out there is anybody’s guess. Rumor has it Apple is planning to roll out a revamped 27-inch iMac Pro with a mini-LED show and the most recent M1 Pro and M1 Max chips as quickly as the first half of 2022.