What is new compared to the iMac G5?
Outwardly, one would be hard pressed to identify the new iMac from the previous iMac G5 iSight. Even a casual test drive of the new machine betrays little of its differences. It has the same clean design, runs the same excellent OS X 10.4 “Tiger,” and runs pretty much the same software applications. So what’s different? Everything… and then again, not much. First the big differences… Intel Core Duo processor The tech speak goes like this. The new processor is Intel’s first “65 nanometer” chip, which means amazingly small transistors packed densely into the processor. Two of these processors are packed onto a single module, sharing a 2MB L2 cache. As stated above, Apple claims that this new 2.0GHz processor (actually, new processors) outstrips the previous G5’s by a factor of 2 to 3. Software compatibility New software specifically designed for use on both Intel iMacs and older systems will now be designated with the “Universal” symbol. That said, pretty much all your older Mac soft
