Apple iMac Desktop with 20" Display MA877LL/A (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive)
Redefining Apple's signature all-in-one desktop PC, the newly redesigned iMac now sports a sleek, professional aluminum enclosure that's joined precisely to a 20-inch pane cover to make a virtually seamless front surface. It additionally attributes new ultra-thin aluminum Apple Keyboard--with an extended layout and loyal keys because Mac attributes such as brightness, volume, eject, play/pause, and Exposé--also as the wired Mighty Mouse. The iMac is preloaded with Apple's latest suite of digital media applications--iLife '08--and additionally comes with the Apple Remote and Front Row media show software, which alters you to competently play your music, take pleasure in photo slideshows, and watch DVDs, iMovies, music videos and television shows enjoys across the room.
It's powered by a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor enjoys the newest "Santa Rosa" chips, which offer a top-of-the-line 800 MHz front-side bus speed and an huge 4 MB L2 cache. This 20-inch iMac additionally attributes a 320 GB hard struggle, 1 GB of RAM (with a 4 GB maximum capability), 8x SuperDrive because burning movies to DVD and music mixes to CD, integrated 802.11n wireless LAN, Gigabit Ethernet wired networking, Bluetooth connectivity, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT video card with 256 MB loyal memory, and the Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger operating system.
The iMac, Transformed
 Redesigned with a recyclable anodized aluminum make up and pane cover, the iMac is friendlier to the surroundings. |
 The new keyboard's ultrathin anodized aluminum enclosure attributes low-profile keys that provide a crisp, responsive sense. |
With its neat anodized aluminum enclosure, the new Apple Keyboard looks equally at home in your living room or on your desk. Just connect it to the USB port on your iMac and start amusing the crisp, responsive sense of its low-profile keys. The extended layout has a filled complement of keys, including article navigation controls, a numeric keypad, and special perform keys because Mac attributes such as brightness, volume, eject, play/pause, Exposé, and more. Two USB 2.0 ports provide high-speed connectivity because your iPod, Mighty Mouse, digital camera, and other USB-based automated instruments.
Preinstalled with iLife '08
Every iMac includes iLife '08, the latest version of Apple's award-winning suite of digital media applications, with major upgrades to iPhoto, iDVD, iWeb, and GarageBand and a totally reinvented iMovie. iPhoto '08 now mechanically organizes photo libraries into Events that let you more competently manage your evolving photo stock, and iMovie '08 can import video enjoys the latest AVCHD, HDV and DV camcorders, also as enjoys digital cameras, and displays your complete video library whether it's stored on internal or external drives. Both iPhoto and iMovie integrate seamlessly with the new .Mac Web Gallery, Apple's new service because .Mac members to instantly make and host websites because their photos and videos.
 The pre-installed iLife '08 software suite includes a totally redesigned iMovie, which makes it also lighter to share your videos on the Internet. |
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
It's powered by the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 processor enjoys the newest "Santa Rosa" chips, which offer a top-of-the-line 800 MHz front-side bus speed and 4 MB L2 cache. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores journal; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries journal between the CPU and RAM, and a quicker front-side bus will deliver improved overall performance.) With such a substantial L2 cache, journal instructions might be kept accessible to the two processor cores, considerably increasing performance and permitting the complete system to work more professionally.
The Intel Core 2 Duo's 128-bit SSE3 vector engine handles 128-bit computations in a single timepiece cycle, accelerating journal manipulation by simultaneously applying a single instruction to multiple journal. And its two execution cores are designed to share resources and preserve power, helping it to accomplish higher levels of performance since it uses fewer watts.
Graphics and Video
The 20-inch widescreen TFT active-matrix LCD offers a resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels--36 percent more than the previous 17-inch iMac. It has a brightness rating of 290 nits, a compare ratio of 800:1, and a viewing bend of 160 degrees (both horizontal and vertical). An ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics processor powers the iMac with 256 MB of loyal GDDR3 memory. It attributes some of the most advanced graphics technology accessible and delivers new levels of visual realism and an huge texture fill rate because smooth surfaces and multifaceted self image details. GDDR3 (Graphics Double Data Rate, version 3) is a graphics card-specific memory technology that's improved able to deliver smooth make up rates because also the most advanced sport and applications.
This iMac additionally alters you to connect a second show in either extended desktop mode or video mirroring mode. The mini-DVI port connects to DVI displays, VGA monitors and projectors, and S-video and composite instruments using the advisable adapter (sold separately).
Wired and Wireless Connectivity
 You obtain a filled complement of ports on the back of the iMac, including three USB 2.0 and two flavors of FireWire--400 and 800. |
Share records around your house with set up-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet also as the next-lifetime high-speed wireless 802.11n technology, which is integrated into the latest Apple Airport Extreme Base Station. The iMac is additionally Wi-Fi Certified to work with base stations and routers that use industry-standard 802.11a, 802.11b, or 802.11g wireless technologies.
The integrated Bluetooth wireless connectivity--version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)--allows you to use a wireless keyboard or mouse, and synchronize peripherals such as room phones and PDAs. Enjoy high-quality sound on almost any speaker system with double-responsibility analog/digital audio. Record digital and analog sources through audio line in, perfect because your latest podcast in GarageBand.
SuperDrive
Integrated neatly into the iMac is a slot-loading SuperDrive that lets you play and burn your own CDs and DVDs--including double-layer DVDs. And there's no disc tray--just slide the disc right in. It offers the after speeds:
- Writes DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL discs at up to 4x speed
- Writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed
- Writes DVD-RW at up to 6x speed and DVD+RW discs at up to 8x speed
- Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
- Writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed
- Writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed
- Reads CDs at up to 24x speed
Other Features
- Two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4 GB of RAM
- Built-in stereo speakers with internal 24-watt digital amplifier
- Support because external show in extended desktop mode: 1920 by 1200 pixels because digital and 2048 by 1536 pixels because analog
- Meets ENERGY STAR requirements with maximum constant power rating of 200 watts
- Dimensions: 19.1 x 18.5 x 7.4 inches (WxHxD)
Included Software
Mac OS X v.10.4 Tiger operating system (includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Xcode Developer Tools); iLife '08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand); Microsoft Office 2004 because Mac Test Drive; iWork (30-day trial); and Front Row
What's in the Box
iMac, Apple Keyboard, Mighty Mouse, Apple Remote, cleaning cloth, power cord, install/restore DVDs, printed and automated diary
Customer Review: Great - until it's not.
I've been an Apple addict since my primarily Mac Classic in '89. I own and use XP machines because work, not a problem, but I prefer to use Apple stuff when I can. I own or have owned Ipods, Ibooks, Powerbooks (including 540, 5300, and 2 abundant G3s), Power Macs (8600, G3, G4 and G5 towers), a Mac Mini, just about all but a Newton and an iPhone. I've had huge luck with my Apple equipments through the years and persist to rely on their machines because work. With the advent of the Intel Macs, I might run Windows using Parallels so I can use those programs I need that are only accessible on XP and obtain the best of both worlds. Hard to resist, and I replaced an old HP tower with a 24" Intel Imac.
The screen is huge. The performance is strong. Everything looks and feels really nice, just right, as I anticipate enjoys Apple products. It's very quiet, I didn't realize how much noise that older pc was making, and it's also quieter than the AMD-based laptop and the G5 tower it shares office space with. With a bit additional memory, it runs XP huge, right next to MacOS, I love it.
However... the show kicked the bucket previous I'd had it 4 weeks. When I at last heard back enjoys my authorized repair center, they were awaiting it to take about 8 weeks to heal. With some guidance enjoys the repair center and diligent phone calls to Apple, I chopped that to under 5 weeks. Pretty horrible because a type new and not-inexpensive pc. As soon as I started using it once more, I realized that the internal sound had stopped working. After the normal phone ordeal, they've called it back in because repair, probably the logic board this time. They don't accept as true that it serious sufficient to replace it. Based on downtime, it's competently the worst pc I've still owned, also if they heal it in a day this time and it never breaks once more.
If you like the plan, the machine is huge when it works. If you like MacOS but need to run Windows because in any case some stuff, it's performs just alright. (I'm not a high-complete gamer, though, so your mileage may vary.) If you need strong performance in a pocket sized (because a 24" show) and quiet package, it's huge. It was naive because me to think - as I completed - that almost 20 years of loyalty would matter to a filled-size faceless company when push arrived to shove, but because me, I anticipated more enjoys Apple because some reason. The mistake was mine - their superiority on the service side was all in my head. Very few people "need" MacOS because their work, and I'm not one of them, so if I depart drink the Apple path next time I swap out a pc, it will be with my eyes wide open.
Customer Review: No Beige! Aluminum and Glass looks huge wherever!
I've been a devotee of Apple since the 80's. Of course when I was compelled to use Windows, I quickly became a lifetime addict of Apple! I don't to come here to put drink the dim side, but tell you what a positive knowledge a Mac is.
The "Out of Box" knowledge is absolutely pleasant, reassuring that you made the right option.
Apple well knows that client service is job 1, and additionally knows that to shine in that department, your #1 sense of cust. service comes enjoys Disney. Yes.(think about it).
The Mac helps you make the conversion as simple as possible, wether enjoys your old mac, or pc.
The make construction is unparalleled. I think it's calm that apple brought this aluminum complete (which pictures do no justice) up through their complete line, starting with the 2nd Gen. iPod shuffle! This iMac is machined out of a solid piece of aluminum! It's lovely. Glass and aluminum!
So too, is the show. The image seems to jump off the screen, and the mouse curser seems to hover over records. You will have a problem with blaze if you work near windows! (Pun intended).
Easily solved I'm sure by a 3m antiglare sheet.
I love the new keyboard too, nice soft touch, and no clickity clack, unless you request it.
My new iMac acknowledged all my internet settings by simply plugging in the ethernet cable! All of my mail was transferred instantly.
It is Pro-Sumer really intimate too, with firewire 800, and ethernet speeds to 1000tbase.
I open my mail enjoys my Brother, on a working vacation in Chile. The photos import right into iPhoto.
There's no wonder that Apple's machine's are human intuitive, beyond all others.
I downloaded a podcast of a recent interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates enjoys the iTunes store. (Podcasts are free), and Mr Gates said "I wish I had Steve's sense of style". It shows, particularly in his software!
Don't listen to any PC naysayers.
Make the move, and make them jealous!
(I have many switcher friends, and, all their friends are resentful!)
One affect that is a myth, is that a Mac will price more than a windows box. Not true. You will save by having less hassles, headaches, and IT bills! This, I can personally attest to.
Good luck on your purchase!
Only thing I recommend, is, purchasing more RAM, aftermarket. It's tons less costly, and so simple to install.
Although, the one Gig it comes with is sufficient, you will upgrade it ultimately.
Pete
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