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2009 Mac Desktop Refresh: iMac

2009-03-05
hey everybody and welcome to another HD tutorial and in this video this is the second part of this video series this HD video series go ahead and watch this in HD we're going to be going over the new iMac so this is a 2009 second video about the new Mac refresh of desktops here so go ahead and open up an internet browser and we're going to look I'm going to maximize this for you go to WWF will calm slash Mac okay if you just go to apple.com and hit the max tab you'll get right to it and what I'm going over today is the iMac so first of all you click on the iMac button like I just showed you the iMac basically what Apple is putting this at ass is the ultimate all-in-one desktop this is for the consumer the average user the Mac Mini is a little gear down a little bit but I love I think the iMac is my favorite Mac you don't have a Mac Pro I like that I'm add quite a bit so they're showing in here of course the 24 inch model with a tiny little keyboard on it to the keyboard in a second now they have a lot of new features first of all it comes in the 20 inch and the 24 inch the 24 inch is gorgeous by the way second they're telling us they have ultra fast Nvidia graphics and I told you about that in the Mac Mini they're using the new Nvidia graphics chip and I'm actually going to click on the new Nvidia graphics chip just to show you guys a performance shred if I can find it here we go we're going to show you guys this first game here the NVIDIA GeForce this is the lowest in graphics card that they offer and you can see there's quite a bit of performance increases using this low-end graphics card in the 20 inch iMac but if I go all the way up to the 24 inch iMac the highest-end ATI Radeon HD look at the six times the performance increase so that's that's a pretty good a pretty good graphics increase plus you get that gorgeous 24 inch screen and I think you guys are going to like that also you get up to 8 gigabytes of ddr3 RAM which is what I have on my laptop which was hard to find but so it's really slim as you can see on the right hand side you get that beautiful screen you get a terabyte of memory if you so choose and actually I'm going to go up to the top here and hit by now because then we get the exact prices and what you get for the price so this is the cheapest iMac that you can get the 20-inch 2.66 gigahertz intel core2duo and for the twelve hundred dollars you get a you get two gigs of ddr3 ram which is alright for a desktop again it's an all-in-one so you're not taking it anywhere but it's pretty cool you get a 320 GB hard drive which is nice and you get an nvidia geforce 9400m which is the lowest end that you can get in the Mac in the iMac and if I just selected there's pretty much no options to go any lower than that for that price range so then stop and then we have the 24 inch there's three versions of the 24 inch you can get ranging from 1500 to 2200 which is decent again for desktop is pretty good price for an all-in-one like the iMac we're running leopard here so what we're gonna get is anywhere from four gigs to eight gigs of ram in fact I'll customize one here for you with all the highest end specs so this is the kind of PC a lot of people will be looking into the the middle and iMac but here we go I'm gonna add to get four gigs of ddr3 RAM which is a thousand 66 gigahertz Ram you get it's a thousand dollars extra so right up here at the top you can see it it's gonna be three thousand two hundred dollars now if we do want that ATI Radeon HD that's 50 bucks the wireless Mighty Mouse is a twenty dollar add-on to the wired Mighty Mouse okay you get the keyboard and again the back will keyboard the desktop model still doesn't have a number of head so you're gonna get like the kind that you get on a laptop you're gonna be a little bit cramped but a lot of people again like that they love that Apple keyboard so I'm not going to go too into that of course I work on nine you can get our life oh nine etc and the processor that you're getting in this one for three thousand two hundred seventy dollars is the 3.06 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo so that's pretty darn fast so I'm going to go back to the Mac tab and go back under the iMac overview again and obviously the 24 inch screen is going to be really beautiful there's a lot of new features they say more display for less so it's just fifteen hundred bucks for the lowest and 24 inch iMac so a lot of people are going to go for that that low-end 24 inch iMac and now I'll they're gonna tell you on every new iMac you get iLife oh nine and you can get I work oh nine and OS ten leopard so those are the three things you'll get it all integrated so you get all that kind of editing software integrated when you buy it in an iMac so if we scroll down a little bit here also obviously boot camp if you do you feel like running Windows Vista or Windows 7 which I can't wait for Windows 7 here's the office all the new features and iLife oh nine I'll go over that too you know I can't I'm not screencasting from the Mac Pro yet I'm screencasting I'm broadcasting really from the PC for now but I'll get I'll get ScreenFlow and I'll start uploading that goes 10 videos so stay tuned for that so you can see all these things get yet get even more from your Mac so obviously you can use bootcamp on your iMac you can get pretty decent speeds with that 3.06 you hear its processor and if you really want to go into the tech specs there's actually built in wireless and as you can see at the bottom here's the resolution 1920 by 1200 so pretty good specs if you have any other questions about the iMac or a computer in general I do tons of reviews on them so just give me a shout out give me a yeah subscribe to my channel and send me a message and I'll do a request video again this is number 2 in the video series and I hope you enjoyed this one and watch the rest of the post if you feel like it if I put it up yet and that's basically it so thanks for watching this one and stay tuned for more and hope you liked it enjoy peace
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