A PC Without the Tower, How Does it Stand Up?
I'm excited I finally have my hands on an Apple iMac Desktop MA878LL/A. This Apple boasts a 24" screen and if you didn't know it has all of its components integrated right into the flat panel monitor. It is a little thicker than your typical 24" LCDOn the inside:
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Running: Leopard
Optical Drive: CD R/RW / DVD R/RW
Storage: 320 GB SATA hard drive
RAM: 1 GB DDR SDRAM
Remote Control
Screen: 24-inch pumping away at 1920x1200
Well out of the box this machine is just awesome. Everything is sexy about this desktop, right down to the low profile brushed aluminum keyboard.
The screen is incredible and boy is it bright. In fact it is probably too bright. Working in low light really strains the eyes, but that is my only complaint about the screen. The Apple iMac Desktop MA878LL/A is amazing visually. Design wise it looks good all the way around, that is right down to the way all the inputs are aligned in the rear of the LCD. Leopard has treated me well and it is easy to pick up on if you've never had any experience with Mac OS's before. The huge screen lets you have plenty of room for whatever projects you may be working on. It is perfect for image editing, video editing etc. It's easy to spread out the floating toolbars in programs like Photoshop.
The hard drive has plenty of space at 320GB. The measly 1 GB of RAM is a joke. I can't imagine why they would do this. The results of such an oversight are considerable and noticeable even with the most rudimentary tasks. The Apple iMac Desktop MA878LL/A is marketed as possessing incredible imaging abilities yet by including just the 1 GB of RAM Photoshop is ridiculously laggy. Good luck expanding the RAM on this on your own too. Apple is expecting you to come to them for it. The good news is, is that the Apple iMac can be expanded upto 4 GB, Apple will however be collecting a premium from you for the job.
Connectivity:
2 Firewire ports
5 USB 2.0 Ports (two of them on the keyboard)
mini-DVI output port supporting DVI, VGA, and S-video
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