Yesterday Apple updated their product offerings for the iMac, Mac Pro, and Cinema Display line. Here is a brief overview if you missed the fun.

iMac Update
The entire iMac lineup now features dedicated graphics drivers as opposed to slower built-in graphics cards. The details on pricing are listed below:

• $1199 / 21.5″ / 3.06GHz Core i3 / 4GB / 500GB / ATI Radeon HD 4670
• $1499 / 21.5″ / 3.20GHz Core i3 / 4GB / 1TB / ATI Radeon HD 5670
• $1699 27″ / 3.20GHz Core i3 / 4GB / 1TB / ATI Radeon HD 5670
• $1999 27″ / 2.8GHz Quad-Core Core i5 / 4GB / 1TB / ATI Radeon HD 5750
• $2199 27″ / 2.93 GHz Quad-Core Core i7 BTO option

Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing had this to say:

We took the world’s best all-in-one and made it even better, with the latest processors, high-performance graphics and signature aluminum and glass design, customers are going to love the latest iMac.

Another interesting note about the new 27″ model iMac is that it now has the ability to support up to two hard drives as seen below:

Mac Pro Update
Apple also announced the new Mac Pro now offering up to 12 cores of processing, and a 50% performance increase over the previous models. Continue reading »