We already wrote that yesterday Apple released a budget version of the 21.5-inch iMac. One of the first new device received Other World Computing specialists, which found an unpleasant feature of the device. This is reported by our colleagues from AppleInsider.
According to the publication, Other World Computing experts dismantled the new budget iMac. They found out that the RAM (8 GB) is soldered directly to the motherboard, making it virtually impossible to replace. Thus, users will have to settle for that amount of RAM, which was installed by the manufacturer, without the possibility of an upgrade (increase).
By the way, if the RAM budget version of iMac you can not change, the capacity of the hard drive for an additional can be increased. For example, for hard drive 1 TB will have to pay ($ 50) per drive Fusion Drive 1 TB - ($ 250), the same requests and Apple SSD 256 GB SSD.
By the way, the budget iMac not only dismantled, but also tested in benchmark Geekbench. Result of the new PC as tested is 2820 balls in a test core and 5435 balls with multicore test. For comparison, the same figure 21.5-inch iMac, the default configuration is 2882 and 9204 points respectively.
Recall the budget version of iMac equipped with 21.5-inch screen, 8 GB of RAM, dual-core Intel Core i5 processor clocked at 1.4 GHz (up to 2.7 GHz mode Turbo Boost) and a video card Intel HD Graphics 5000. Related Products :
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