Apple iMac 2011 is the latest generation of Apple with Sandy Bridge processors and connection system with incredible speed Thunderbolt. This is the first time adopted by the MacBook Pro 2011. These features are promising an amazing speed acceleration when compared with the predecessor generation.
Specification Apple offers two models that is 21.5 "with dimensions of 1920 x 1080 and 27" with dimensions of 2560 x 1440. Each has four different standard configurations. For the first measure, which is 21.5 "off the market at a price of $ 1,999 has a quad-core processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, hard-drive with 500GB capacity, and GPU AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512MB. By adding the $ 200, you'll get the iMac 21.5 "with quad-core processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 and with a capacity of 1TB hard-drive and GPU AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB.
For those of you who prefer a wider screen, you can glance at the Apple iMac 27 "released on the market at a price of $ 1,699. This type of processor, hard drive, and the same GPU as the iMac 21.5 "$ 1,499. while the iMac 27 "top of the line, sold in the market at a price of $ 1,999 to use quad-core processor intel core i5 3.1 GHz, 1TB hard drive, and the AMD Radeon HD 6970 1GB. All of this variant comes with 4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, which consists of 2 pieces of 2GB RAM module.
Every iMac with a processor core using the standard variant based i5 Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, which are each composed of a processor chip CPU, cache, GPU, and memory controller. With this microarchitecture we can access data more quickly using fewer buses. IMac processor has 6MB of shared L3 cache and support for 2.0 turbo boost technology. The latter feature allows the speed of each core can be increased if needed. Unfortunately, unlike the core i5 processors found on the MacBook Pro, Core i5 variants used the iMac does not support Hyper Threading technology. So to get the technology you can request an upgrade to a Core i7 with an additional cost of $ 200 (for type 21.5 "$ 1,499 and 27" $ 1999). You also can request an upgrade to 8GB of memory (with 2 pieces of 4GB of memory) for all types iMac with an additional fee of $ 200, or 16 GB (with 4 pieces of 4GB of memory) for type 27 "with an additional fee of $ 600.
iMac has 4 memory slots are located on the bottom and can be accessed easily by users, so you can easily add their own capacity. iMac 21.5 "can accommodate a maximum of 16GB of memory, while the memory capacity of type 27" could be raised up to 32GB (via third-party memory).
Apple offers no alternative to the hard drive upgrades for this kind of iMac 21.5 "$ 1,999. But you can upgrade the hard drive 3 other variants, from 1TB to 2TB, priced at $ 150. You can also swap the hard drive into a 256GB SSD with an additional fee of $ 500. If you upgrade it to 256GB SSD, you can combine it with a 1TB hard drive ($ 600) or 2TB ($ 750). But you should order a hard drive capacity larger direct from Apple. Due to dismantle the rear panel iMac hard drive to reach out to involve a complicated process and damage the warranty seal.
Features most recently owned an iMac 2011 is the Thunderbolt, an external connection system that not only can be used to connect the Mini DisplayPort monitor, but also a storage device that supports the connection with this lightning bearing icons. Thunderbolt offers connection speeds 10GB per second, 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and 20 faster than USB 2.0. iMac type 21.5 "Thunderbolt has one port, while the iMac is kind of 27" has two ports Thunderbolt.
