Yesterday Apple a released officially the new iMac line equipped with Sandy Bridge processors also available in the MacBook Pro series launched just 2 months ago. Of course, the new iMacs have already been through everything synthetic tests available for Mac OS X and we have the results in the images above. The most powerful iMac configuration from 2011 is weaker than the 6-core Mac Pros released in 2010, but slightly faster than the MacBook Pro series released in February.
The benchmarks reveal that the new processors offer a somewhat significant performance sport, those from MacWorld concluding that the most powerful iMac configuration from 2011 (standard in the Apple Store) is 16% faster than the one for the iMac from 2010. iMac - will greatly help the sales of the Apple company, which on the side of desktops and laptops are starting to decrease. Many people will want to buy a new iMac especially because it is faster and has Thunderbolt technology implemented.
Our overall system performance test suite, Speedmark 6.5, shows the new system to be 16 percent faster than the previous high-end standard configuration iMac, a 27-inch 2.8GHz Core i5 quad-core model with a 1TB 7,200-rpm hard drive, and ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics with 1GB of dedicated RAM. (Apple considered the older 27-inch 2.8GHz Core i5 iMac a BTO option, but the online Apple Store didn't treat it like one, so we decided to treat it like a standard configuration model.)
