If you are wondering if you can add a second drive after you received the 2010 iMac, the answer "yes and no." For details, see the Other World Computing "reveal" of the insides.
NEWS FLASH: OWC will add an eSATA port to your iMac. One FireWire 800 port maxing at 80MB/s is lame by today's standards. We're still puzzled by the lack of an external eSATA port on the iMac - an option that would allow the user to take advantage of external SATA enclosures capable of 140MB/s with a single HDD or Port-Multiplier multi-bay SATA enclosures capable of 230MB/s. But in August 2010, the Mac Pro will increase the gap with the Mac Pro 'Westmere' and optional Radeon HD 5870 GPU. As we wrote last November, the iMac Core i7 more than ever brefore, bridges the gap between the iMacs and Mac Pros. These are welcome upgrades to the iMac which was already very good. (See Intel's processor specifications for more details.) We prepared this table to highlight the key differences in CPU and GPU:
It can run as fast as 3.60GHz when Turbo Boost kicks in and create up to 8 virtual cores when Hyper-Threading kicks in. The Core i7 is now available at 2.93GHz - same top core frequency as the fastest Mac Pro. Hopefully the drive bay is "user serviceable" so you can add the SSD at a later time. What's not cool is the cost for having both: $750 to $900. You can custom order it with a 256G SSD and a 1TB or 2TB HDD. We're looking forward to running our 3D graphics tests comparing it not only to the 'late 2009' iMac Core i7 with the Radeon HD 4850, but also to the Mac Pro with Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 285. The top model now sports a Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory.
We list this first because it is the most significant update. Here are the key changes to the iMac which appeared on the Apple online store today: Updated at 7PM PST with comments on the Mac Pro update. Posted Tuesday, July 27th, 2010, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
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