Users will be much happier with 1 GB, and, for the price, you may as well go all the way to its maximum of 2 GB. While that’s enough to run Tiger comfortably, it doesn’t provide a lot of room for browsers and other high-demand apps. The biggest drawback to Core Duo iMacs is that they ship with only 512 MB of memory. The new iMac ships with Mac OS X 10.4.4 Tiger, the first Intel version of the Mac OS, and iLife ’06, which is a universal binary and is intended to replace the aging AppleWorks 6. This is the first iMac ever to officially support monitor spanning. The only things that seem to be missing are FireWire 800, which Apple still reserves for its “pro” models and has not yet put on an iMac, and AppleWorks, a product Apple has bundled with every previous iMac.
Which raises the question: Will the new Intel iMac outperform the Power Mac G5 Dual? The Core Duo processor offers 2-3x the power of the G5, and it would be unseemly for the new Intel-based Mac mini to outperform the iMac.
There was a lot of debate about which model would be the first with Intel inside, and the iMac is a good choice. In January 2006, Apple replaced it with what looks like essentially the same computer from the front, but with an Intel Core Duo CPU instead of a single-core PowerPC G5. Three months earlier, had Apple introduced an updated iMac G5 – slimmer, lighter, a bit faster, with built-in iSight and sporting a remote control. Apple refers to these as iMac (Early 2006), but we also call them iMac Core Duo, the first iMacs based on Intel’s Core Duo processor.
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