My new iMac is a monster
I felt like Santa Claus was coming by, when a beautiful lady delivered me my latest computer acquisition — an iMac as of the late summer 2007 standards.
It had an Intel Core Duo 2.4 GHz processor, 300 GB hard disk, 1 GB DDR RAM, and 252 MB Graphic RAM on its ATI graphics card, all behind a 20" screen. Compared to its antecedent, a Power Mac Quicksilver, the clock-ratio is more than 3 times higher, the hard disk 3.8 times bigger, graphic card 8 times stronger, and the BUS speed about 6 times higher. By the standards of August 2007, this is a very good computer. By the standards of spring 2007, when I realised that heritage from my late father would enable me to acquire the Mac of my dreams, this is a monster, even undreamable.
On August 07, a few days after the money came, I ordered the computer, in fact a 17 inch iMac. On ordering from the Apple Store Denmark, I upgraded the hard drive to 120 GB from originally 80 GB, and the processor to 2.2 GHz from originally 2.0 GHz. To my great dispair, Apple Computer Inc. dumped the prices on iMacs a few hours later when introducing a whole new line of iMacs. I was shocked about the results and spend the next 24 hours in a very bad mood about having lost about 2000 DKK up in the blue, because I could not wait. The next evening I noticed an e-mail from Apple Store notifying me about the event and told me that I would get an upgraded iMac of the newest models. This was happy news. Thank you, Apple, thank you!
I got the marvel on August 16, and two days later, I had already upgraded the RAM with a Kingston 2GB / PC2-5300 RAM stick.
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iMac late 2007 — technical specifications
Erik Thau-Knudsen