Tim Cook: Apple is working on new desktops

Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed in an internal email that Apple is working on new desktops. It remains unclear whether it concerns only iMacs, or whether Apple is also providing its Mac Pro and Mac Mini computers with new versions.

According to Cook, desktops are ‘strategic’ for Apple, Techcrunch reports based on the internal mailing. “It’s unique compared to a laptop, because you can pack more performance into a desktop – the largest screens, the most memory and the most storage, a greater diversity of I/O and the fastest performance.”

That’s why, Cook says, Apple is working on desktops. “If there’s any doubt about that in our teams, let me be clear: we have great desktops on our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that.”

By referring to ‘largest screens’, it is clear that Cook is in any case referring to the iMac, the only desktop series Apple makes with built-in displays. It is unknown what about the computers that the manufacturer has in the range without a screen, the Mac Pro and Mac Mini. The most recent Mac Mini is from 2014, the latest Mac Pro is the cylindrical PC from 2013. The most recent iMac is the model with 5k display from late 2015.

Cook answers the question after Apple didn’t announce any new desktops at the Mac event in October. There, the American hardware maker presented the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and a less expensive variant without Touch Bar and with two USB-C ports.