The iMac Landscape

In addition to announcing new MacBook and the Magic Mouse, Tuesday (20/10), Apple also announced a new iMac model with a wider screen. iMac now comes with a variant with a wider-screen models with a choice of 21.5-inch screen and 27 inches.

Both variants complements iMac models already available in pasara ie with 20-inch screen and 24 inches. In addition to larger screen, the performance of two new models were also upgraded with faster processors, large memory capacity, and support the latest graphics cards. Operating systems also have been using Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard that Apple's recently launched.

For 21.5-inch iMac with Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz, 3 MB L2 cache or 3.33 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache. Memory capacity of 4 GB of RAM (2 slots) DDR3 1066 MHz that can be added up to 16 GB. While its hard disk capacity from 500 GB to 2 TB with 7200 RPM spin. For given the choice of graphics card NVidia GeForce 9400M or ATI Radeon HD 4670 with each of the 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared.

For 27-inch model uses an Intel Core I5 quad-core 2.8 GHz with 8 MB L3 cache or processor choices Core i7 quad core 2.8 GHz with 8 MB L3 cache. Sam RAM memory with 21-inch version, but the capacity of 1 TB hard drive started. Graphics card used is available with a choice of ATI Radeon HD 4670 or ATI Radeon HD 4850, each with 256 MB GDDR3 memory, or ATI radeon HD 4850 with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory.

With the presence of two new variants, Apple also revised the price. iMac prices now start 1199 sold U.S. dollars to 1999 U.S. dollars.