Apple offers largest all-in-one desktop – the 27-inch iMac
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 10:18
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The Apple has rocked the all-in-one desktop category with its 27-inch iMac. Not only it is the largest all-in-one desktop available in the market but its price of $1699 it is much cheaper than Sony’s 24-inch Vaio. With such reasonable price, the iMac offers very attractive parts of hardware when you look deeper into it. There are lot of improvements to the older version, be it wireless mouse and keyboard, SD Card reader, bidirectional Mini DisplayPort, LED backlight, or the design similar to the MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. The older iMac had aluminum and polycarbon body and the all new iMac with only aluminum and provided with edge-to-edge glass over its gigantic display.
Obviously, the biggest attraction of the new iMac is its large screen. The new iMac is 3-inch wider than the older version but it has same height and depth of its older sibling. The new iMac is 20.5 high, 25.5 inches wide and 8 inches deep. The biggest advantage of wider screen is that you can open two windows side by side and still there will be spare room. The new dispay is not only bigger but has higher resolution at 2560×1440 pixels as compared to 1920×1200 pixel resolution of older display. The new display is very bright as compared to the older display due to the LED backlight.
The 27-inch iMac doesn’t have any Windows based counterpart as the Windows based desktop doesn’t offer display larger than 24 inches. The Apple iMac runs on 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 CPU and 4GB of 1,067MHz DDR3 SDRAM. It has 256MB ATI Radeon HD 4670 GPU and 1TB of 7200rpm hard drive. It nearest Windows competitor is Gateway One ZX6810-01, which is better at multitasking with its 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 CPU, 8GB of 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM and 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 graphics card. It offers few more features like TV tuner and 64GB Solid State Drive in addition to 1TB hard drive, which are absent on iMac. The iMac runs on Apple OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and has connectivity options like Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n, and Bluetooth.
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