About This iMac
The Apple iMac Intel Aluminum “Core 2 Duo” computer is another creative step in the evolution of the iMac. The new aluminum bodies certainly is a stand-out highlight however the external design is also not the only fascinating thing this device displayed. It also has a faster processor under the body, the Intel “Core 2 Duo” processor, and the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with graphics acceleration for graphics. The FireWire ports is still limited to 2 ports however, the second FireWire “400” port is now upgraded to a FireWire “800” port. The design of this iMac oozed elegance and class and in some circles is a very useful machine.
Storage
The device is built with 250.0 GB Serial ATA (3Gb/s) hard drive storage with a disk speed of 7200 RPM.
Screen Size and Resolution
The iMac Intel Aluminum “Core 2 Duo”features a 20 inch screen with “glossy” TFT active matrix LCD display and a native resolution of 1680×1050.
Inclusive Feature
The iMac includes the following features and ports:
A Power Adapter (100V-240V AC, 200 W maximum)
Standard AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n).
Gigabit Ethernet
One FireWire 400 port
One FireWire 800 port
8X DL “Super Drive”
1 Mini-DVI that supports both mirroring and extension.
Built-in Stereo Speakers
Processor & Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
The iMac Intel Aluminum “Core 2 Duo” has the Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R4031) operating system pre-installed on it. It is powered by a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (T7300) processor. Its graphics processor is the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics processor – using PCI Express – with 128 MB of GDDR3 video memory.
Memory & Architecture
The a1224 device is built with 4 MB on-chip level 2 cache with a frontside bus of 800 MHz and with 1 GB of 667 MHz PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM for its RAM. Its design was centered on a 64-Bit architecture.
Upgradability
Although the iMac Intel Aluminum “Core 2 Duo” came with 1 GB of RAM, it can be upgraded up to 6 GB of RAM.
The Operating System of the iMac can also be upgraded from its pre-installed Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R4031) up to MacOS X 10.11. This iMac was also able to act as a host Windows OS, mainly being Windows XP SP2 (32-Bit) and more recently Windows 7 (32-Bit).
This iMac Intel Aluminum “Core 2 Duo” has the following dimensions of 46.9 cm, 48.5 cm, 18.9 cm and a weight of 20 lbs (9.1 kg).
