New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- Apple appears to be preparing a revival of its professional-grade all-in-one desktop, with leaked internal files revealing a new iMac powered by the unreleased M5 Max chip. The discovery, found within Apple's kernel debug kit, references a machine with the identifier "J833c"-a potential successor to the discontinued iMac Pro, suggesting the company is actively validating high-performance silicon for a desktop form factor.

For those of us who track Apple's hardware closely, this is the smoking gun we've been waiting for. Deep inside these files, the new iMac model is listed running on platform H17C, which is directly linked to "Sotra C," the internal designation for the M5 Max silicon. The leak, which has surfaced on...