Introducing Apple iMac 2012

Creating the stunningly thin design of the
new iMac took some equally stunning feats
of technological innovation. We refined,
re‐imagined, or re‐engineered everything
about it from the inside out. The result is
an elegant all‐in‐one computer that’s as
much a work of art as it is state of the art.

How did we make an already gorgeous widescreen display even better? By making it 75 percent less
reflective. And by re‐architecting the LCD and moving it right up against the cover glass. So you see
your photos, games, movies, and everything else in vivid, lifelike detail.

With third‐generation Intel Core processors,
the latest NVIDIA graphics, Thunderbolt, and
groundbreaking new storage options, the
slimmest iMac yet is also the most powerful.

OS X Mountain Lion makss every Mac intuitive and easy to use. It also makes it simple to find,
organize, share, and do just about everything. And thanks to iCloud, it makes your Mac, iPhone, iPad
and iPod touch work wonderfully together.

Features Design Performance OS X Built‐in Apps Tech Specs

A big, bold display. Third‐generation Intel quad‐core processors and the
latest NVIDIA graphics. Cutting‐edge storage options. And much more.
No desktop has ever brought so much to the table.


Innovations you can see.
You won’t want anything to distract you from what you’re viewing on these
big, beautiful 21.5‐ and 27‐inch displays. And nothing will, thanks to a new
display design that reduces reflection by 75 percent. In addition, because the
LCD now sits right up against the glass, your content seems to leap off the
screen.

IPS technology and LED backlighting.
The gorgeous iMac display looks great from any seat in the house. A technology called in‐
plane switching (IPS) gives you a bright picture with excellent color from nearly any angle.
And LED backlighting offers instant‐on, uniform brightness with no waiting. So you’re
always ready to share that vacation slideshow with the family.

Vivid, true‐to‐life color. Every time.
Everything you see on the big, glossy display — from skin tones and dark shadows to bright
blue skies and green fields — is rich and vibrant. And the colors are more true to life, too.
That’s because every iMac display is individually color‐calibrated using state‐of‐the‐art
spectroradiometers to match color standards recognized around the world.


Powered by third‐generation Intel Core processors, the new iMac is the fastest yet. Every model in the
lineup comes standard with a quad‐core Intel Core i5 processor, starting at 2.7GHz and topping out at
3.2GHz. And at the Apple Online Store, you can configure your iMac with an even more powerful Intel
Core i7 processor, up to 3.4GHz.


Across the line, the new iMac features advanced NVIDIA GeForce graphics processors built on the Kepler
architecture, delivering up to 60 percent greater performance for graphics‐intensive tasks. You’ll see
more frames per second in 3D games, and you can edit HD home videos with more speed and
responsiveness than ever before.


Up to a 3TB hard drive.
Go ahead and take all the photos, buy all the music, and shoot all the video
you want. A 1TB hard drive comes standard on the new iMac, with the option
to upgrade to a massive 3TB drive2 — which is 50 percent more storage than
ever before offered on iMac.

Up to 768GB of flash storage.
For maximum performance, you can configure a 27‐inch iMac with 768GB of
flash storage instead of a traditional hard drive. Flash storage delivers up to
three times the performance of a traditional drive3 — speed you’ll notice
when you start up your iMac, launch an app, or browse your photo library.

Introducing Fusion Drive.
The new iMac introduces a breakthrough storage option called Fusion Drive,
which combines a high‐capacity hard drive with high‐performance flash
storage. Fusion Drive automatically and intelligently manages your data so
that frequently used apps, documents, photos, and other files stay on the
faster flash storage, while infrequently used items move to the hard drive.
You’ll enjoy shorter boot times, and as the system learns how you work, you’ll
experience faster application launches and quicker file access.


Thunderbolt
Ultrafast and ultraflexible, the tiny Thunderbolt port offers unprecedented
transfer speeds and incredibly versatile expansion capabilities. Connect high‐
performance peripherals such as external drives, cameras, audio and video
capture devices — even Mini DisplayPort displays for more screen real estate.
All iMac models include two Thunderbolt ports, so you can create the
ultimate do‐anything desktop.

USB 3
Bring on your printer, digital camera, mobile phone, and external hard drive.
Every iMac comes with four USB 3 ports — with speeds up to 10 times faster
than USB 2 — so you’ll have plenty of peripheral possibilities, including your
iPhone or iPod, printer, or Apple USB SuperDrive.

Wi‐Fi and Bluetooth
The latest 802.11n wireless technology in iMac makes it effortless to connect
to a Wi‐Fi network.4 Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology is also built in, so you
can use your favorite wireless accessories — such as the Apple Wireless
Keyboard and Magic Mouse — right out of the box.


Higher‐fidelity sound and a larger Dual mics. Be heard loud and clear. FaceTime HD camera for high‐
soundstage. iMac has two built‐in microphones that resolution video calls.
Even though the iMac enclosure is thinner work together to home in on your voice Get everyone in the picture with crisp,
than ever, the new built‐in speakers deliver and filter out the sounds around you. That widescreen HD video. The built‐in 720p
higher‐fidelity sound than before. So when means more accuracy when you’re using FaceTime HD camera lets you make video
you’re listening to that new album, Dictation and better clarity during calls that are so clear, it seems like
watching the latest flick, or playing your FaceTime video calls. everyone’s in the same room. Make
favorite action game, you’ll get immersive FaceTime calls from your iMac to any
sound and a surprisingly wide soundstage. FaceTime‐enabled Mac, iPhone, iPad, or
iPod touch.


Choose your perfect cord‐free setup. Magic Mouse — which comes
standard with iMac — lets you perform simple gestures across its
smooth, seamless top shell. Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe
through web pages and photos with two, and click and double‐click
anywhere. To take advantage of all the Multi‐Touch gestures that make
OS X Mountain Lion so easy and intuitive to use, choose the Magic
Trackpad option when you buy from the Apple Online Store. Designed
with a touch‐friendly all‐glass surface, it’s the largest Multi‐Touch
trackpad made by Apple. So there’s plenty of room for scrolling, swiping, Magic Mouse
pinching, rotating, and then some.

Magic Mouse Gestures Magic Trackpad Gestures


Choose your perfect cord‐free setup. Magic Mouse — which comes
standard with iMac — lets you perform simple gestures across its
smooth, seamless top shell. Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe
through web pages and photos with two, and click and double‐click
anywhere. To take advantage of all the Multi‐Touch gestures that make
OS X Mountain Lion so easy and intuitive to use, choose the Magic
Trackpad option when you buy from the Apple Online Store. Designed
with a touch‐friendly all‐glass surface, it’s the largest Multi‐Touch
trackpad made by Apple. So there’s plenty of room for scrolling, swiping, Magic Trackpad
pinching, rotating, and then some.

Magic Mouse Gestures Magic Trackpad Gestures


OS X Mountain Lion takes full advantage of the incredible technologies in every Mac. It makes a powerful
computer intuitive and easy to use. It makes Multi‐Touch gestures on the trackpad feel fluid and natural.
It makes it easy to find, organize, share, and do just about everything. And thanks to iCloud, it makes your
Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch work wonderfully together.


iMac comes loaded with the iLife suite of apps: iPhoto for organizing,
editing, and sharing your photos; iMovie for creating Hollywood‐
style movies at home; and GarageBand for making great music. You
also get apps for sending email, managing your schedule, and
automatically backing up your Mac. There’s even an app for
shopping for new apps at the Mac App Store.


iCloud stores your content and lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and
more from whatever device you’re on. So if you take a picture with your iPhone or make changes to your
meeting schedule on your iPad, iCloud makes sure everything appears on your Mac, too.


Sit down in front of the new iMac and something incredible happens: The
world around you seems to disappear, and you lose yourself in the big,
beautiful display. To create an experience this immersive, we pushed
every limit, rethought every detail, and advanced iMac in the most
astonishing ways.
The ultimate all‐in‐one. Honed to the cutting edge.
The first iMac was a revolution: An all‐in‐one computer that put everything —
display, processor, graphics, storage, memory, and more — inside one simple,
stylish enclosure. Countless innovations later, we’ve raised the bar yet again.
The new iMac includes the most advanced, most brilliant desktop display we’ve
ever built, and it’s filled with the latest high‐performance technologies. Yet it’s
40
Up to 40% less volume

just 5 mm thin at its edge with up to 40 percent less volume than the previous
generation. To do all that required unprecedented feats of engineering — and
imagination. We invented new technologies, pioneered new manufacturing
techniques, and devised all‐new ways to do more in less space.
5 5‐mm edge
Innovations at the molecular level.
One of the biggest challenges our engineers faced was how to join the front and
back of the new iMac. The enclosure is so thin, it’s not possible to weld the pieces
using traditional methods. So we searched far and wide for other ideas, and we
found one in a process called friction‐stir welding. It’s commonly used on airplane
wings, rocket booster tanks, and other parts that simply can’t fail. This process
uses a combination of intense friction‐generated heat and pressure
to intermix the molecules of the two aluminum surfaces —
creating a seamless, precise, and superstrong join. You may not see it,
but the new iMac wouldn’t be possible without it.


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Now you’re closer to the action.
The new iMac display is not set behind the cover glass — it’s right up against it. The LCD itself
is 5 mm thinner than before, and we used an advanced process called full lamination to
eliminate a 2‐mm gap between the LCD and the glass,
something that has never been done on a display
this large. Although it may not seem like much,
those few millimeters are enough to make
images look as if they’re leaping off the glass.

75 percent less reflection.
Full lamination has a second major benefit: It eliminates the reflection of light off the LCD
panel and off the back of the display’s cover glass. But we also figured out how to reduce
reflection off the front of the glass without compromising color quality. Instead of applying
an antireflective coating to the glass in a
conventional way, we adapted a process
used on smaller surfaces like camera
lenses and fighter pilots’ helmets. It’s
called plasma deposition, and it involves
coating the glass with layers of silicon
dioxide and niobium pentoxide so precise
and so thin they’re measured in atoms.
The result: an astounding 75 percent
reduction in reflectivity — and vibrant, accurate colors.


Individually calibrated for true‐to‐life color.
None of these innovations would matter much if the iMac display didn’t
deliver vivid, true‐to‐life color. Which is why we put every single display
through an exacting color‐calibration process using three state‐of‐the‐art
spectroradiometers: one to measure gamma, one to measure white point,
and one to check the work of the other two. This equipment is tuned to
meet color standards recognized around the world for precision
and accuracy.


More energy efficient.
Not only does the new iMac offer higher performance than any previous iMac, it’s also
more energy efficient, using up to 50 percent less energy in the idle state with the display
on. And its hardware components work hand in hand with the operating system to
conserve even more power.
50
Uses up to 50% less energy

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Friendly to the environment.
The environmentally friendly iMac design is free of many harmful toxins, including
mercury, arsenic, BFRs, and PVC. It’s also made from materials such as aluminum and
glass, which are more likely to be recycled and reused. Aluminum

Highly rated designs.
As a result of all our efforts, iMac meets the stringent low power requirements set by
the EPA, giving it ENERGY STAR 5.2 qualification. And it has earned the highest rating of
Gold from EPEAT, which evaluates the environmental impact of a product based on how
recyclable it is, how much energy it uses, and how it’s designed and manufactured.
SiO2
Glass


The new iMac is amazingly thin, yet it
offers faster quad‐core performance,
up to 60 percent faster graphics,
ultrafast Thunderbolt, and the
all‐new Fusion Drive option. So it’s
powerful enough for a design studio,
production house, or science lab. And
beautiful enough for any room in
your home.


Core i5 and Core i7 processors. Turbo Boost 2.0.
The third‐generation quad‐core Intel Core i5 processor — built on Say you’re using a processor‐intensive application like Aperture or
the latest Ivy Bridge architecture — is standard on the new iMac. Final Cut Pro that benefits from extra power. Turbo Boost 2.0
It’s available at a clock speed of up to 3.2GHz. Or configure iMac automatically increases the speed of the active cores, so the Core
with a quad‐core Intel Core i7 at up to 3.4GHz. Since OS X is i7, for example, can offer up to 3.9GHz. And by shifting core
designed to take advantage of each core, iMac captures every bit frequency in small increments, Turbo Boost allows the processor
of performance from the processor. OS X also supports Hyper‐ to manage performance without sacrificing efficiency. All this
Threading in the Core i7, allowing two threads to run takes place behind the scenes, so your work — and play — goes
simultaneously on each core — giving you eight virtual cores of smoother and faster.
processing power.


iMac uses NVIDIA’s new Kepler graphics architecture to
deliver up to 60 percent faster graphics performance than the
previous generation.1 That translates into more frames per
second, smoother animation, and better responsiveness
when you’re using graphics‐intensive apps like 3D games,
high‐resolution photo and video editors, and more. If you
choose the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX on the 27‐inch iMac,
you get the best graphics performance available in an all‐in‐
one computer.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M


With Thunderbolt, you get superfast data transfer speeds and
huge expansion capabilities. It features two 10‐Gbps data
channels per port, each up to twice as fast as USB 3 and up to
12 times faster than FireWire 800. And don’t worry about a
single drive or peripheral tying up a Thunderbolt port: You
can daisy‐chain as many as six devices and a display. All iMac
models include two Thunderbolt ports for even more
expansion possibilities.


Available as a configurable option at the Apple Online Store, Fusion Drive
is a breakthrough concept that combines the high storage capacity of a
traditional hard drive with the high performance of flash storage. With
Fusion Drive in your iMac, disk‐intensive tasks — from booting up to
launching apps to importing photos — are faster and more efficient.
That’s because frequently used items are kept at the ready on speedy
flash storage, while infrequently accessed items go to the hard drive. The
file transfers take place in the background, so you won’t even notice. As
the system learns how you work, Fusion Drive makes your Mac
experience even better. And you don’t have to do a thing.


Built on a rock‐solid UNIX foundation, OS X is engineered to take full advantage of the technologies
in every new Mac. And to deliver the most intuitive and integrated computer experience.


Hardware and software made for each other.
Since the software built into every Mac is created by the same company that makes the Mac, you get a
fully integrated system in which everything works together perfectly. OS X works with the processor in
your Mac to deliver the best possible performance. It works with the Multi‐Touch trackpad in Mac
notebooks so they feel natural to use. Power Nap takes advantage of the Mac hardware to keep the
entire system up to date while it sleeps.1 And OS X gives you long battery life by working with the
computer’s built‐in sensors to dim the screen in low‐light conditions and even regulating processor
activity between keystrokes.


Multi‐Touch, Mac style.
Use your fingers to tap, scroll, pinch, and swipe your way around the Mac. Because Apple makes both the
hardware and software, Multi‐Touch gestures are remarkably precise. This precision makes Multi‐Touch the
most natural and intuitive way to use a computer. When you scroll down on your trackpad or Magic Mouse, your
document scrolls down. When you scroll up, your web page scrolls up. When you swipe left, your photos move
left. These and many more gestures make all you do on your Mac easier, intuitive, and fun.


It’s remarkably simple.
From the desktop you see when you start up your Mac to the applications you use every day, everything is
designed to be easy and intuitive. And it all makes perfect sense, especially if you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod
touch. The desktop is clean and simple. It takes one click to open an app and a few more to buy, download, and
install new apps from the Mac App Store. On a Mac, it’s easy to find, share, and do just about everything. And a
Mac does so many things automatically, sometimes you don’t have to do anything at all.


It’s incredibly powerful.
Making powerful things simple requires some seriously advanced technologies. OS X is loaded with them. It’s
built on a rock‐solid, time‐tested UNIX foundation that provides unparalleled stability and industry‐leading
support for Internet standards. And the incredible graphics performance in OS X allows applications like Aperture
and Final Cut Pro to give you unprecedented photo and video editing capabilities. OS X is engineered to take
advantage of the latest technologies in every Mac.


It’s easy to get around.
On the Mac, everything is right at your fingertips, right where you need it. The Dock is a handy place for all your
favorite apps. From the Dock, you can launch apps quickly and switch between them easily. If an app isn’t on the
Dock, you’ll find it in Launchpad. Go there to see all the apps on your Mac full screen and organize them however
you like. And Mission Control gives you a bird’s‐eye view of all your open windows, so you can keep track of
everything you’re working on. OS X offers systemwide support for gorgeous, full‐screen apps that use every inch
of your Mac display. You can have multiple full‐screen apps open at once — along with multiple apps in windows.
And it’s easy to switch between full‐screen and desktop views.

Handy
Quick Widgets
Thumbnails
Dashboard
Full‐screen
gives you quick
apps and your
access to your
desktops
widgets.
appear at the
top of Mission
Control.

Organized Files
Exposé groups
application
windows
together.

Mission Control Launchpad Full‐Screen Apps



Reorder apps any way you like, or organize them in folders.




Click to switch between full‐screen and desktop views.



Find, organize, and share files fast.
The Finder helps you find, organize, and access practically everything on your Mac. And features like
Spotlight and Quick Look make locating the file you’re looking for effortless — even if you don’t know what it’s
called. Say you’re searching for a document, and the only thing you recall about it is the phrase “surrealist
painters.” Open Spotlight, start typing “surrealist painters,” and your Mac generates a list of files that contain
those words. And with Quick Look, you don’t need to open an application to know you’ve found the right file —
just hit the space bar and you’ll see a full‐size preview. Want to share a file with someone nearby? Just drag and
drop to send it wirelessly with AirDrop.

Four Finder
Views
With just a click,
choose how Large Icons
you’d like the App icons are
Finder to clear so you can
appear. find files easier.

Simple Sidebar
Get quick
access to drives,
servers, and
shared
computers. .

Finder Spotlight AirDrop



Enter a word or phrase, and Spotlight generates a list of where it appears.




Drag and drop a file to send it wirelessly to someone on the same network.



iCloud. It’s how Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch work even better together.
Sign in once with your Apple ID on your new Mac, and iCloud is automatically set up in all the apps that use it. So
if you have iCloud set up on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, whatever you do on your Mac happens on those
devices, too. And it works the other way around. Update something on another device, and the same update will
be made on your Mac. So your mail, contacts, calendars, messages, documents, data, and more go wherever you
go. From your Mac to your iPhone to your iPad and back to your Mac.


Safety. Built right in. Windows compatibility.
Every Mac is designed with powerful, advanced technologies The versatility and power of OS X help a Mac fit in just about
that work together to constantly scrutinize, encrypt, update — anywhere — including Windows networks. Want to transfer
and ultimately keep your Mac safer. For starters, OS X is built your files, photos, and other data from a Windows PC? OS X lets
on a proven, secure UNIX foundation. It also includes a host of you do that easily. If you want to run Windows on your Mac,
features designed to protect your Mac and the information on you can do that, too.3 OS X has built‐in support for the latest
it. Gatekeeper makes it safer to download and install version of Microsoft Exchange Server, so you can use your Mac
apps. FileVault safeguards data using powerful encryption. Find at home and at work and keep all your messages, meetings, and
My Mac helps you locate your missing Mac on a map, set a contacts in one place. OS X works with virtually all of today’s
passcode remotely, and more. Customizable privacy settings digital cameras, printers, and other peripherals without the
keep your personal information under your control. And the need to manually download separate drivers. And it opens
best way to keep your Mac up to date with the latest security popular file types such as JPG, MP3, and PDF, as well as
features? Just install software updates with a click. Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.

Built‐in apps
Safety. Built right in.
you’ll use every day.
OS X comes standard with a wide range of assistive OS X comes in a single version that includes a collection of
technologies that help people with disabilities experience what Apple‐designed applications. Not only do they let you surf the
the Mac has to offer, including many features you won’t find in web, make FaceTime video calls, send messages, manage your
other operating systems — at any price. For example, built‐in contacts, and accomplish other day‐to‐day tasks, they also work
VoiceOver screen‐reading technology, available in over 20 together to make you more productive — and let you have
languages, makes it possible for those who are blind or have more fun.
low vision to control their computers using key commands or
gestures on a Multi‐Touch trackpad. OS X also offers out‐of‐the‐
box support for more than 40 braille displays (including
Bluetooth displays) and many other accessibility features, such
as dynamic full‐screen magnification, playback of closed
captions, and a scalable screen.


It comes with apps for sending email, managing your schedule, making video calls, and backing
up your Mac automatically. It even comes with an app for shopping for new apps. With OS X
Mountain Lion, your Mac is more than full‐featured, it’s fully loaded.

iPhoto iPhoto GarageBand Mac App Store Safari

Mail Messages Calendar Contacts Reminders


iPhoto is an easy‐to‐use photo application that makes it fast and fun to organize and find your pictures, as well as make them
look their absolute best. With features like Faces, Places, and Events, iPhoto helps you keep track of your photos by who’s in
them and when and where you took them — all in an immersive full‐screen view. Quick and simple editing tools let you make
so‐so shots picture perfect with just a few clicks. Photo Stream in iCloud automatically pushes new photos to all your devices,
so you’re never without your latest shots.1 And if you feel like showing off what you’ve captured, iPhoto lets you share with
beautiful photo books and letterpress cards or online via Facebook and Flickr.

See more of
every shot as
you view and
edit your photos
in full‐screen
mode.

Share your photos
with Facebook
friends or update
your profile
picture — right
from iPhoto.


Don’t settle for boring home movies. With iMovie, you can transform the videos you shoot into your very own indie flicks.
Create a Hollywood‐style trailer that’ll make your audience laugh, cry, and cheer for more. If you know how to drag and drop,
you can make a movie in iMovie. It comes with Apple‐designed themes that look fun and professional. Just choose one and
iMovie does the rest, adding animated titles and sophisticated transitions automatically. Customize your screen gem further
with your own words and audio.

Make your very
own Hollywood‐
style trailers with
iMovie.


Whether you’re musically gifted or mostly curious, GarageBand is the application for you. Plug in your electric guitar or USB
music keyboard and get ready to rock with virtual replicas of the most revered amps and stompboxes in the world, as well as
over 100 software instruments. Just because you didn’t grow up learning your A, B, and C sharp doesn’t mean you can’t. Basic
Lessons teach you just that: the basics. Choose from 40 lessons that cover blues guitar, rock guitar, classical piano, pop piano,
and more. Or get a private lesson from one of your musical heroes, like Sting or Death Cab for Cutie, with Artist Lessons.
GarageBand even tells you how well you’re playing in real time with a feature called “How Did I Play?”

Groove Matching
brings all your
tracks together
beautifully —
even the ones
that are out of
rhythm.

Flex Time lets
you quickly
change the
timing of your
recording to fix
mistakes or
extend a riff.


Just like shopping the App Store on iPad and iPhone, the Mac App Store offers endless possibilities to
browse and purchase apps on your Mac. New apps install in one step right to Launchpad. And the Mac App
Store lets you know when app updates are available, so you always have the latest versions.

Download thousands of apps from the Mac App Store straight to Launchpad on your Mac.


It’s faster, smarter, and more than just a browser. View web pages full screen on every inch of your Mac
display. Save articles to your Reading List and read them later — even without an Internet connection. And
peruse pages from the clean, uncluttered, ad‐free Safari Reader. Safari works great with iCloud. It keeps
your Reading List up to date across all your devices. iCloud Tabs makes the last web pages you looked at
available on all your devices, too. So you can always pick up browsing, reading, shopping, and doing just
about everything wherever you left off.

There’s one field for search and web addresses. And Safari knows what you’re looking for.

Overview Reading List iCloud Tabs



Save articles to your Reading List and read them later — even without an Internet connection.




When you open tabs on your iOS devices, iCloud Tabs makes them accessible on your Mac, too.



Mail makes it easy to manage all your email from a single, ad‐free inbox. It features powerful search
capabilities, with search suggestions and tokens built in. It works with the free me.com email account you
get when you sign up for iCloud, as well as most email standards — including POP3 and IMAP — and
popular email services such as Gmail, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cox, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail. Mail
supports Microsoft Exchange 2010, too. If you have more than one email account, no problem. Add your
accounts to Mail and you’ll be able to access all your email from one place. And Mail looks as great as it
works. It makes full use of your display with a gorgeous widescreen view featuring a full‐height message and
a message list that includes snippets. With Conversations, messages from the same thread appear in an
elegant timeline showing each communication as it was sent while hiding redundant text.

Get a widescreen view of your inbox. See one open message and a list of messages with previews.

Overview Conversations


Mail makes it easy to manage all your email from a single, ad‐free inbox. It features powerful search
capabilities, with search suggestions and tokens built in. It works with the free me.com email account you
get when you sign up for iCloud, as well as most email standards — including POP3 and IMAP — and
popular email services such as Gmail, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cox, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail. Mail
supports Microsoft Exchange 2010, too. If you have more than one email account, no problem. Add your
accounts to Mail and you’ll be able to access all your email from one place. And Mail looks as great as it
works. It makes full use of your display with a gorgeous widescreen view featuring a full‐height message and
a message list that includes snippets. With Conversations, messages from the same thread appear in an
elegant timeline showing each communication as it was sent while hiding redundant text.

Conversations keeps messages from the same thread together in the order they were sent.

Overview Conversations


Messages on the Mac replaces iChat. It does everything iChat does, and so much more. For starters, it
comes with iMessage. So you can send unlimited messages to anyone on a Mac — and on an iPhone, iPad,
or iPod touch running iOS 5 or later, too. You can even start a conversation on your Mac and pick it up on
your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Send photos, videos, documents, and contacts. And send messages to a
group. You can see when your message has been delivered and when someone’s typing a reply. Turn on
read receipts, and friends can see when you’ve read their messages. With end‐to‐end encryption, your
messages stay safe and private.

Send unlimited iMessages to anyone on a Mac or an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 5 or later.

Overview Messages Everywhere


Messages on the Mac replaces iChat. It does everything iChat does, and so much more. For starters, it
comes with iMessage. So you can send unlimited messages to anyone on a Mac — and on an iPhone, iPad,
or iPod touch running iOS 5 or later, too. You can even start a conversation on your Mac and pick it up on
your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Send photos, videos, documents, and contacts. And send messages to a
group. You can see when your message has been delivered and when someone’s typing a reply. Turn on
read receipts, and friends can see when you’ve read their messages. With end‐to‐end encryption, your
messages stay safe and private.

Start a conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Overview Messages Everywhere


Keep track of your busy schedule and share it with others using Calendar. Create separate calendars —
one for home, another for school, a third for work, and so on. See all your calendars in a single window or
choose to see only the calendars you want. Calendar lets you create invitations using information from
Contacts, update your guest list, keep track of responses, and receive the latest status information. When
you or another Mac user receives a Calendar invitation via Mail, it’s automatically added. Calendar also
works with iCloud, Yahoo!, and Google. And when you use iCloud, every Calendar edit you make on your
Mac automatically appears on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. So no dinner dates are missed, no
meeting goes unattended, and no anniversary is forgotten.

See all your calendars in a single window. Or choose to see only the calendars you want.


Contacts is a flexible and convenient place to store information for everyone you know. It’s easy to import
names, numbers, addresses, and photos from other applications. And it’s designed for Facebook, too.
Contacts automatically includes your friends’ profile photos and information. And when friends update their
information, Contacts updates your Mac. You can create smart groups for clubs, activities, and business
purposes; print address labels and envelopes; and more. iCloud updates your contacts on your iPad, iPhone,
iPod touch, and Mac — so when you enter someone’s contact info once, you have it everywhere. And since
Contacts is built on vCard, an industry standard for storing contact information, your friends can send you
cards that you can add simply by dropping them into your contacts list — no typing required.

When you add, delete, or edit a contact, iCloud updates your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac.


Reminders helps you get all your to‐dos done — on the Mac and on your iOS devices. Make as many to‐do lists
as you need and easily add to them. Set due dates and you’ll get alerts as deadlines approach. Check items off
your lists as you go and keep track of what you’ve completed. And to be sure you don’t forget anything, iCloud
keeps your reminders up to date on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

Make lists. Check off your to‐dos. And see everything you’ve completed.

Overview Reminders Everywhere


Reminders helps you get all your to‐dos done — on the Mac and on your iOS devices. Make as many to‐do lists
as you need and easily add to them. Set due dates and you’ll get alerts as deadlines approach. Check items off
your lists as you go and keep track of what you’ve completed. And to be sure you don’t forget anything, iCloud
keeps your reminders up to date on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

iCloud keeps your reminders up to date on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

Overview Reminders Everywhere


Time Machine works with your Mac and an external hard drive or Time Capsule (sold separately). Connect the
drive, assign it to Time Machine, and start enjoying some peace of mind. Time Machine automatically backs
up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and
documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a
spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on any given day — so you can revisit your
Mac as it appeared in the past.

Browse by date to see how your system looked at any previous time. And restore your Mac with a click.


Time Machine works with your Mac and an external hard drive or Time Capsule (sold separately). Connect the
drive, assign it to Time Machine, and start enjoying some peace of mind. Time Machine automatically backs
up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and
documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a
spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on any given day — so you can revisit your
Mac as it appeared in the past.

Make video calls to anyone on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or another Mac — from your Mac.


Take fun snapshots and make short videos in Photo Booth. Right from there, you can share what you shoot on
Facebook and Twitter. Use photos as your Messages icons. Assign them to friends and family in Contacts. And
add photos to your iPhoto library. But the real fun starts when you use the effects and backdrops. Snap a
photo of yourself at the Eiffel Tower or in outer space. Choose from nine effects that use facial tracking
technology so effects look great whether you’re front and center — or left of center. Snap single photos or
shoot multiples in a four‐photo burst. You can even shoot and trim video clips, complete with effects. And see
your Photo Booth photos full screen.

Take quick snapshots and film short videos. Even add fun effects.


21.5‐inch iMac 27‐inch iMac
Display

21.5‐inch (diagonal) LED‐backlit display with IPS 27‐inch (diagonal) LED‐backlit display with IPS
technology; 1920‐by‐1080 resolution with support for technology; 2560‐by‐1440 resolution with support for
millions of colors millions of colors

2.7GHz 2.9GHz 2.9GHz 3.2GHz
Processor 2.7GHz quad‐core Intel 2.9GHz quad‐core Intel 2.9GHz quad‐core Intel 3.2GHz quad‐core Intel
Core i5 processor (Turbo Core i5 processor (Turbo Core i5 processor (Turbo Core i5 processor (Turbo
Boost up to 3.2GHz) with Boost up to 3.6GHz) with Boost up to 3.6GHz) with Boost up to 3.6GHz) with
6MB L3 cache 6MB L3 cache 6MB L3 cache 6MB L3 cache
Configurable to 3.1GHz Configurable to 3.4GHz
quad‐core Intel Core i7 quad‐core Intel Core i7
(Turbo Boost up to (Turbo Boost up to
3.9GHz). 3.9GHz).

8GB (two 4GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 memory 8GB (two 4GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 memory; four user
Memory Configurable to 16GB. accessible SO‐DIMM slots
Configurable to 16GB or 32GB.


Storage 1TB 1TB 1TB

1TB (5400‐rpm) hard drive 1TB (5400‐rpm) hard drive 1TB (5400‐rpm) hard drive

Configurable to 1TB Configurable to 3TB hard drive, 1TB or 3TB Fusion Drive,
Fusion Drive. or 768GB of flash storage.

NVIDIA GeForce NVIDIA GeForce NVIDIA GeForce GTX NVIDIA GeForce GTX
Graphics GT 640M graphics GT 650M graphics 660M graphics processor 675MX graphics processor
processor with 512MB of processor with 512MB of with 512MB of GDDR5 with 1GB of GDDR5
GDDR5 memory GDDR5 memory memory memory
Configurable to NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 680MX with
2GB of GDDR5 memory.

FaceTime HD camera
Video Support Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built‐in
and Camera display and up to a 30‐inch display (2560 by 1600
pixels) on an external display
Support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes


Stereo speakers
Audio Dual microphones
Headphone port
 Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack)
 Support for Apple iPhone headset with microphone

SDXC card slot
Connections Four USB 3 ports
and Expansion Two Thunderbolt ports
Mini DisplayPort output with support for DVI, VGA, and
dual‐link DVI (adapters sold separately)
10/100/1000BASE‐T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ‐45 connector)


Apple Wireless Keyboard
Input Full‐size keyboard with 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys,
including 12 function keys, 4 arrow keys (inverted “T”
arrangement)

Magic Mouse
Smooth, seamless Multi‐Touch surface with support for
simple gestures (scrolling and swiping). Click and double
click anywhere. Ambidextrous construction accommodates
left‐ and right‐handed users.

Magic Trackpad
Glass Multi‐Touch trackpad for precise cursor control;
supports inertial scrolling, pinch and expand, swipe,
three finger swipe, four‐finger swipe, tap, double‐tap,
rotate, screen zoom, scroll, click and drag, click drag and lock,
secondary click A and B.

Wi‐Fi
Wireless 802.11n Wi‐Fi wireless networking;2 IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

Bluetooth
Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology


Size and
Weight

Height: 17.7 inches (45.0 cm) Height: 20.3 inches (51.6 cm)
Width: 20.8 inches (52.8 cm) Width: 25.6 inches (65.0 cm)
Stand depth: 6.9 inches (17.5 cm) Stand depth: 8 inches (20.3 cm)
Weight: 12.5 pounds (5.68 kg) Weight: 21 pounds (9.54 kg)

Line voltage: 100‐240V AC
Electrical and Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
Operating Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
Requirements Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet


 National Semiconductor VM22AC

 DDR3 DOSIMM *2
 Texas Instruments Stellaris LM4FS1AH microcontroller

 SMSC USB2412 USB2.0 hub

 PERICOM PI3VeDP212ZLE

 NXP CBTL05023BS

 Delta 8904C‐F

 Texas Instruments TPS2561

 Broadcom BCM57765A1KMLG

 Intel E213B384 platform controller hub

 SK Hynix H5GQ2H24AFR GDDR5 SGRAM

 Nvidia Geforce GT 6 series GPU

 Texas Instruments 58873D


 Intel 3rd generation Core I processor


 Intersil ISL6364

 Analog Devices SSM3302 audio amplifier

 Intersil ISL62383C

 Cirrus Logic 4206BCNZ audio codec


 Texas Instruments CD3210

 Intel DSL3510L Thunderbolt controller

 Intersil ISL62882C

 Analog Devices SSM3302 audio amplifier

 Intersil ISL6614A

 Texas Instruments TPS51916

 Vimicro VC0359 webcam processor

Manufacturer Device Function
▼Processor

Intel Intel 3rd generation Core i5 processor Processor
▼Memory
SK Hynix DDR3‐1600 SODIMM, 4GB*2/8GB*2
System memory, up to 8GB/16GB
(SK Synix HMT351S6CFR8C‐PB)
H5GQ2H24AFR‐T2C 512MB/1GB/2GB GDDR5 totally for nVidia GPU
▼Chipset
Mobile Intel® Z77 Express Chipset
(Intel® BD82Z77 PCH)
Intel Intel PCH
PCN/MDDS: SLJC7
(a.k.a Panther Point)
▼Graphics
GeForce GT 6 series PCIe GPU
nVidia PCIe GPU
(GT640M/GT650M/GT660M/GT675MX/GT680MX)
▼Communication
Broadcomm BCM94331CD WiFi/BT combo module ‧WiFi:
Broadcom BCM4331, Single‐Chip 802.11n Dual‐Band 3x3 Wireless Solution
‧Bluetooth
Broadcom BCM20702, Single‐Chip Bluetooth® 4.0 HCI Solution with
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Support

BCM57765A1KMLG Gigabit Ethernet + SDXC Memory Card reader controller controller
▼Audio
Cirrus Logic Cirrus 4206BCNZ HD Audio codec
Analog Devices SSM3302 Audio amplifier
▼Storage
HGST 3.5" desktop hard drive Main storage, 1 TB capacity
SATA SSD Option for Fusion Drive

Manufacturer Device Function
▼Display
LGD LM215WF3‐SDD1 LCM for 21.5" model
Texas Instruments TPS65161 bias power supply
Parade DP627HDE DisplayPort LCD timing controller
▼Others
National Semiconductor VM22AC
Intersil ISL6364 Multi‐phase pulse width modulation (PWM) controller
ISL62882C Multiphase PWM Regulator for IMVP‐6.5™ Mobile CPUs and GPUs
ISL6614A Dual Advanced Synchronous Rectified Buck MOSFET Drivers with Pre‐POR OVP
High‐Efficiency, Quad or Triple‐Output System Power Supply Controller for
ISL62383C
Notebook Computers
SMSC USB2412 USB 2.0 Hub Controller
Texas Instruments TPS2561 Dual channel power switch
Complete DDR2, DDR3 and DDR3L Memory Power Solution Synchronous Buck
TPS51916
Controller
Stellaris LM4FS1AH Microcontroller
CD3210
58872D Unknown
58873D Unknown
R33V Unknown
Intel DSL3510L Intel Thunderbolt controller
Pericom PI3VeDP212ZLE 2‐lane DisplayPort™ Switch/Mux for DP Driven Panels with Triple Control Pins
Multiplexer/demultiplexer switch chip for DisplayPort v1.2 signals and the
NXP Semiconductor CBTL05023BS
control signals of a 10 Gbit/s channel(Thunderbolt Switch)
VMICRO VC0359 USB2.0 camera interface IC

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