The rumors about the new iMac were once again true, those from Apple presenting this evening a product with a rather modified design. The new iMac is 80% thinner than the previous model, it is only 5 mm thick and the people from Apple praise it from all points of view. To reduce the thickness, those from Apple laminated the screen to the front panel, reduced its thickness and now the entire screen is 45% thinner. In order to get everything they wanted, the people from Apple also gave up the optical drive, so you won't have anything like that in the iMac.
The screen of the new iMac displays clearer images, reflections are reduced by 75% and all thanks to a technology called plasma deposition. The interesting part is that each screen is manually calibrated, which provides a very good quality for viewing any kind of content. The iMac comes with a Facetime HD camera, two microphones and an apparently better audio system than in the previous version, with a 40% lower volume. Regarding the internal structure, Apple says that we will have Intel Ivy Bridge i5/i7 processors, Nvidia Kepler graphics cards, up to 768 GB of flash storage/3 TB HDDs and up to 32 GB of RAM. In terms of storage capacity, Apple says it uses Fusion Drive, a new technology that offers 128 GB of flash storage plus a 1/3 TB HDD, giving users better read/write speeds, all specially designed for OS X. If you wonder what performance this storage system has, well Apple says that you should have speeds up to 3 times better than when using the old storage media.
In terms of prices, the standard version with a 21.5-inch monitor costs $1300, and the standard version with a 27-inch screen has a starting price of $1799, the first version to be available from November and the second from December .
