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iMac Gets Thunderbolt I/O, Quad-core

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lookit-all-dem-ports dept.

fergus07 writes "Apple's desktop lineup has typically pushed users requiring plenty of fast I/O towards the Mac Pro — but the latest iMac refresh has broken the tradition. Quad-core Sandy Bridge CPUs and faster ATI Radeon HD GPUs are welcomed, but it's the addition of Thunderbolt ports (one in the 21.5-inch and two in the 27-inch) that really ups the ante for a number of professional users."

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  1. Re:Great but by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...because what everyone wants is a TI/99A or Atari 400 approach to how systems look and are upgraded.

    Apple users spend all of this time "looking trendy" and denigrating anything else that they view as ugly while promoting this 80s notion of how computers are put together.

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