Specs on the new iMacs include, as previously mentioned, Intel’s new “Penryn” Core 2 Duo processors with 45-nanometer technology (which means it’ll be far more energy efficient than previous 65nm based iMacs and run significantly cooler at comparable clock rates), 6MB on-chip Level 2 cache, 1066MHz Frontside Bus (FSB), and speeds of 2.4, 2.66, 2.8 or 3.06GHz are available.
Providing two display options and four different clock speeds will give Apple’s flagship Mac a huge range of price points and customization possibilities.
Along with a bump in preinstalled memory — 1GB for the entry-level 20in model and 2GB for all others — the type of RAM used has been bumped up to 800MHz DDR2 from 667MHz.
There are still only two RAM slots, however; so one will have to remove the existing paired RAM and install it in matched pairs (supporting up to 4GB with 2GB DDR2-800 SO-DIMMs) to upgrade the iMacs’s memory.
Despite that limitation, the upgrade process is quite easy — particularly compared to virtually any other computer that can remotely compare with the iMac’s compact and powerful design.
As for graphics acceleration, the new iMacs are bumped up considerably — most notably at the high end, but pretty much across the board except for the entry-level which retains a Radeon HD 2400XT GPU with 128MB of GDDR3 VRAM.
More details follow on the next page….
Apple introduces new iMacs clocked at up to 3.06GHz(!)
Specs on the new iMacs include, as previously mentioned, Intel’s new “Penryn” Core 2 Duo processors with 45-nanometer technology (which means it’ll be far more energy efficient than previous 65nm based iMacs and run significantly cooler at comparable clock rates), 6MB on-chip Level 2 cache, 1066MHz Frontside Bus (FSB), and speeds of 2.4, 2.66, 2.8 or 3.06GHz are available.
Providing two display options and four different clock speeds will give Apple’s flagship Mac a huge range of price points and customization possibilities.
Along with a bump in preinstalled memory — 1GB for the entry-level 20in model and 2GB for all others — the type of RAM used has been bumped up to 800MHz DDR2 from 667MHz.
There are still only two RAM slots, however; so one will have to remove the existing paired RAM and install it in matched pairs (supporting up to 4GB with 2GB DDR2-800 SO-DIMMs) to upgrade the iMacs’s memory.
Despite that limitation, the upgrade process is quite easy — particularly compared to virtually any other computer that can remotely compare with the iMac’s compact and powerful design.
As for graphics acceleration, the new iMacs are bumped up considerably — most notably at the high end, but pretty much across the board except for the entry-level which retains a Radeon HD 2400XT GPU with 128MB of GDDR3 VRAM.
More details follow on the next page….