Why can't an iMac with M2 come out this year?

It was already in April 2021 when Apple introduced a completely redesigned and redesigned 24" iMac with an Apple Silicon chip. Logically then, it was the M1 chip. Even after more than a year and a half, it still doesn't have a successor, the one with the M2 chip might not even have one. 

Apple first deployed the M2 chip in the MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro, which it presented at last year's WWDC in June. We expected a big update round to come in the fall, when the Mac mini and iMac will get it, and the larger MacBook Pros will get more powerful versions of the chip. This did not happen, because Apple presented them rather illogically only in January of this year, that is, with the exception of the new iMac.

When is the new iMac coming? 

Since we already have the M2 chip here, since we already have an updated portfolio of computers here, when is it realistically possible that Apple would introduce a new iMac? There's a spring Keynote and WWDC in early June, but in both cases the iMac would be a device that wouldn't be given the space to stand out, so it's highly unlikely that Apple would show it here.

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September belongs to iPhones, so theoretically the new iMac could only arrive in October or November. To be honest, investing in an M1 chip doesn't seem very profitable even now, when we have, for example, an M2 Mac mini (it's different with the M1 MacBook Air, it's still an entry-level device into the world of Apple portable computers). But presenting the M2 iMac at a time when the launch of the M3 chip is more likely to be expected would be somewhat inappropriate.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman doesn't plan Apple to launch the new iMac earlier this fall. From such an event, it is also assumed that the company will introduce a new generation of its Apple Silicon chip, i.e. the M3 chip, which will again be the first to receive the MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro, when the new iMac could also accompany them nicely. It's more unlikely for a Mac mini if ​​we've just updated it.

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All of this means one thing - there simply won't be an M2 iMac. For some reason, Apple didn't want to be part of it, and it's true that it wasn't even written anywhere that every computer from the company's portfolio should get every generation of the chip. Mac Studio, which will easily skip the entire generation of M2 chips, may end up in a similar way. We'll see at the autumn Keynote, which will shed a little more light on this, and from which we will be able to get a better handle on the release schedule of new chips and the computers themselves that will use them in the future.