An all-in-one computer with a beautiful display, plenty of storage, CPU speed, and high-end graphic card.
Apple introduced the first iMac more than a decade ago. The design philosophy remains the same: an all-in-one computer that's as powerful as it is beautiful. This version features a 27" viewable display with a 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive, and an ATI 4670 HD graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM memory.
LED backlighting. One bright idea.
One of the big advantages of the LED-backlit Apple iMac display, is that you get full brightness with no waiting. Unlike most displays that take time to warm up before they reach maximum brightness, an LED-backlit display is instantly on and uniformly bright. LED backlighting also gives you greater control over screen brightness. Now you can finely tune the Apple iMac display to suit the ambient light in even the dimmest room.
More pixels. Better picture.
This iMac computer offers some prime pixel real estate. Its 27-inch, 2560-by-1440 display has a whopping 78 percent more pixels than its 21.5-inch iMac counterparts. A 1000:1 contrast ratio gives you more vibrant colors and blacker blacks. All that in a widescreen display with a 16:9 aspect ratio — the same as an HD TV.
Stunning from every angle
The Apple iMac display looks great from any seat in the house, thanks to a premium display technology called in-plane switching (IPS). IPS gives you a bright picture with excellent color consistency — even if you're viewing the display from the side.
Now available with more power
This iMac comes with a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB shared L2 cache and its Mac OS X Snow Leopard is designed to take full advantage of Intel duo-core architectures to get you the fastest performance possible.
Revved-up graphics.
Every iMac computer comes with high-performance graphics that make games run smoother, photos load faster, and pro applications work better. This particular iMac comes with the ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM memory.
More memory and storage.
Speaking of main memory, the Apple iMac has 4GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory standard, with room in its four SO-DIMM slots for up to 16GB, so you can run more applications simultaneously. With its 1TB Serial ATA hard drive, feel free to load up on photos, videos, and music.
Built-in Wi-Fi.
High-speed 802.11n wireless technology is built into this iMac. With Time Capsule or the AirPort Express Base Station, every computer in every room can wirelessly connect to iMac, the Internet, and each other. Over this network, everyone can print, surf the web, and play music on iTunes through your home stereo — wirelessly.
Wireless Magic Mouse.
Forget the mouse as you know it. Every iMac comes with the wireless Magic Mouse: the world's first Multi-Touch mouse. Use it once and you'll wonder how you ever used anything else. There's no scroll ball, no clunky wheel, no cord, and no visible button.
Instead, Magic Mouse uses Multi-Touch technology to let you control everything with simple gestures. Give them a try and you'll find that Magic Mouse changes the way you interact with your computer. Built-in software lets you configure Magic Mouse any way you want. Its smooth, seamless design is ambidextrous, and it supports two-button clicking — without buttons. You'll quickly see why Apple name it the Magic Mouse.
Wireless keyboard.
iMac banishes desktop clutter completely with a wireless keyboard to go with the wireless Magic Mouse. This low-profile keyboard takes up less desk space — 24 percent less — than larger keyboards. There's no numeric keypad, so you can place your mouse comfortably next to the keyboard. The addition of the built-in Bluetooth means there are no cables to connect.
An iSight camera, hidden in plain view.
Look closely: Hidden behind the glass display at the top of your iMac is an iSight camera. Use it with iChat and you can be anywhere without actually being there. Video chat with up to three of your friends, share a video with a colleague, or present to a client. Use iSight with Photo Booth for fun photo effects. There's no need to waste valuable primping time installing software or configuring the camera. Like everything Mac, iSight just works.
Ports for everything...and then some.
The Mini DisplayPort lets you connect an external display, including the Apple LED Cinema Display, to your iMac. On this 27-inch iMac, the same port offers input, so you can also connect any external source that has DisplayPort output — including a MacBook or MacBook Pro — and use your iMac as a display.
SD card slot.
Transfer your photos and videos to and from your iMac just as fast as you're able to take them. This iMac has an SD card slot built in. Just insert your camera's memory card and import your photos to iPhoto. From there, it's easy to organize your photos by the people in them, share them online, or create photo books.
USB and FireWire.
Bring on your iPod, digital camera, mobile phone, and external hard drive. If it has a cable, Apple iMac has a port for it. Four USB 2.0 ports and a FireWire 800 port give you plenty of peripheral possibilities.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Mac OS X is renowned for its simplicity, its reliability, and its ease of use. So when it came to designing Snow Leopard, Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a great thing even better. They searched for areas to refine, further simplify, and speed up — from little things like ejecting external drives to big things like installing the OS. In many cases, they elevated great to amazing.
The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of all the modern technologies in Mac OS X, including 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch. It's more responsive from top to bottom, with snappier performance throughout the Finder. It includes new features such as customizable Spotlight search options and an enhanced icon view that lets you thumb through a multipage document or watch a QuickTime movie.
Exposé is refined and more convenient. It's now integrated in the Dock, so you can just click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one. Exposé also has a whole new look. Windows are displayed in an organized grid, making it even easier to find what you're looking for. Stacks — Dock items that give you fast access to a folder of files — are now scrollable so you can easily view all items. You can also navigate through folders in a stack to see all the files inside it.
Introduced in Mac OS X Leopard, Time Machine made backing up your hard drive easy for the first time. Time Capsule took backup even further with its wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine. Now Snow Leopard makes Time Machine up to 80 percent faster and reduces the time it takes to complete your initial backup to Time Capsule.
Speaking of fast, with Snow Leopard, your Mac wakes from sleep up to twice as quickly when you have screen locking enabled. Shutting down is up to 80 percent faster, saving precious moments when you're trying to head home or to the airport.
Upgrading your Mac has never been easier. For Snow Leopard, the entire process has been simplified, streamlined, and is up to 50 percent faster, yet more comprehensive and reliable. For example, Snow Leopard checks your applications to make sure they're compatible and sets aside any programs known to be incompatible. In case a power outage interrupts your installation, it can start again without losing any data.
Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you — enough for about 1,750 more songs or a few thousand more photos.
Safari 4 is the latest version of the blazing-fast web browser. It renders web pages at high speed and delivers a range of new features, including full history search, smart address, and search fields, an innovative way to display your top sites, industry-leading support for web standards, and more.
With Snow Leopard, Safari 4 delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance thanks to its 64-bit support. In addition, Safari is even more resistant to crashes. It turns out that the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So Apple engineers redesigned Safari to make plug-ins run separately. If a plug-in crashes on a web page, Safari will keep running.
Other features on this Apple computer include a more reliable disk eject, more efficient file sharing, easy PDF text selection, automatic updates for printer drivers, automatic timezone setup, a Services menu that allows you to use features of one application while working in another, and more.
iLife '09 includes:
•iPhoto '09: Organize photos two new ways: Faces, based on who's in your photos, and Places, based on where your photos were taken. Then share on Facebook or Flickr with a click
•iMovie '09: Make a great movie in the time you have. Choose a dynamic theme to enhance your movie in seconds. Or refine every shot with the Precision Editor
•GarageBand '09: Learn to play piano and guitar. Learn songs from the artists who made them famous. Rock like a legend with new guitar amps and stompbox effects
•iWeb '09: Design a website to share your photos, movies, and music just by dragging and dropping. Add new dynamic widgets and publish and share with a click
•iDVD: Create your own DVD in less time than it takes to watch one. With iDVD, you can premiere your movies and photo slideshows on a professional-quality DVD with animated menus, buttons, scene selection, and more. All customizable to suit whatever you're sharing
