On Tuesday, along with the iPad Mini, Apple’s Philip Schiller introduced two new versions of its long-running series of iMac, with 21.5- and 27-inch screens. The new iMacs are 45 percent thinner than the earlier version and measure only 5 mm thick at the edge, and are eight pounds lighter.
The 21.5-inch model has a 1920×1400 pixel display and the 27-inch as a 2560×1440 pixel display. The starting prices for the two computers are US $1,299 and US $1,799, respectively. Apple;s Online store has the availability dates listed as November for the 21-inch model and December for the 27-inch model.
21.5-inch iMac:
- 21.5-inch iMac display: 21.5-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 1920-by-1080 resolution
- 21.5-inch iMac processor: 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz) with 6MB L3 cache or 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with 6MB L3 cache
- 21.5-inch iMac storage: 1TB (5400-rpm) hard drive or 1 TB (5400-rpm) hard drive
- 21.5-inch iMac memory: 8GB (two 4GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 memory
- 21.5-inch iMac graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory or NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
- 21.5-inch starting at $1,299—coming in November
27-inch iMac:
- 21.5-inch iMac display: 27-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2560-by-1440 resolution
- 27-inch iMac processor: 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with 6MB L3 cache or 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with 6MB L3 cache
- 27-inch iMac storage: 1TB (7200-rpm) hard drive
- 21.5-inch iMac memory: 8GB (two 4GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 memory; four user-accessible SO-DIMM slots
- 27-inch iMac graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
- 27-inch starting at $1,799—coming in December.
