APPLE MB419BA iMac 24in 2.93GHZ desktop computer
Model: APPLE MB419BA
Photos, movies, games, videos and applications with palettes. Anything you see on the 20- or 24-inch glossy widescreen display will be a pixel-perfect experience. iMac features a flat-panel LCD screen with 1680-by-1050 resolution (20-inch) or 1920-by-1200 resolution (24-inch), giving you vivid colours and breathtaking high-definition clarity. And there’s nothing quite like seeing your life’s events on the big screen, thanks to the new iLife ’09 built into every iMac.
Power duo : The latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors run at speeds starting at 2.66GHz with options up to 3.06GHz. And they include 6MB of shared L2 cache.
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO : BaselineTesting conducted by Apple in April 2008 using preproduction 24-inch iMac units with 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of iMac.
iMac Application Performance : When looking at how the new iMac performs with real-world applications, you can clearly see its advantage over the previous generation. Now with iMac, you’ll enjoy new levels of performance with tasks across the board, whether it’s creating web pages, movies or music, or organising and enjoying your favourite pictures and music. Testing conducted by Apple in April 2008 using preproduction 24-inch iMac units with 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors; all other systems were shipping units. All systems were configured with 2GB of RAM. Photoshop test file size = 120MB. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of iMac.
Speed Test:
Final Cut Pro. HDV render and encode : 28% faster
iPhoto. Common application tasks : 27% faster Adobe Photoshop.
45-filter function test : 22% faster
iMovie. Common application tasks : 21% faster
iTunes. Convert for iPhone : 21% faster
Safari. HTML, JavaScript, Java VM : 17% faster than iMac with 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo. (previous generation)
More memory standard : iMac now has up to 4GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory standard so you can run more applications simultaneously. And with a Serial ATA hard drive up to 1TB,2 load up on photos, videos, music and more. That’s a remarkable amount of storage for just about anything and everything.
Built-in freedom : Turn your house into a Wi-Fi wonderland. High-speed 802.11n wireless technology is built into iMac. And with Time Capsule or the AirPort Express Base Station, every computer in every room can wirelessly connect to iMac, the Internet and each other.3 Over this network everyone can print, surf the web and even play music from the iTunes library through your home stereo — wirelessly.
iSight camera :Built into the top of iMac is an iSight camera. You’ll hardly notice it’s there until you want to launch iChat, Photo Booth or iMovie. iSight is easy to use and highly advanced. The remarkable picture quality and colour accuracy make this tiny feature huge.
SuperDrive : iMac doesn’t have a disc tray. CDs and DVDs slide right into the slot-loading SuperDrive. What makes it super? You can burn your own CDs and DVDs — including double-layer DVDs — to back up data or create your own music mixes. With the SuperDrive and iDVD, you can even burn the movies you make onto a DVD and watch them on your TV.
