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Old 12-18-2013, 03:29 PM
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Default late 2009 imac , viable still for PT

Our school is disposing of a bunch of these for $650. Decent enought to run PT 11 or should I just save my shekels for something more powerful.

Model ID: iMac10, 1

Release date: October 20, 2009

Price: $650

Enclosure:

Aluminum and glass

Display:

27 ", 2560 × 1440

Glossy glass-covered widescreen 16:9, LED backlighting and IPS technology

Processor:

3.06 GHz (E7600) Intel Core 2 Duo with 3MB on-chip L2 cache

Front Side Bus:

1066MHz

Memory:

4GB (two 2GB, two slots empty) 1066 MHz PC3-8500 DDR3 SO-DIMM SDRAM

Graphics:

ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM

Hard Drive:

1TB - Serial ATA 7200-rpm

Optical Drive:

8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

Connectivity:

Internal AirPort Extreme 802.11a/b/g/n

Gigabit Ethernet

Built-in infrared (IR) receiver for Apple Remote

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Peripherals:

4x USB 2.0

1x Firewire 800

SD Card slot

Headphone/digital audio output

Audio line-in/digital audio input

Mini DisplayPort

Mini DisplayPort to VGA, DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort adapters available

Camera:

iSight Camera (640 x 480 0.3 MP)
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Default Re: late 2009 imac , viable still for PT

Dependent on the session / and those core 2 duos aren't Mountian Lion support from what I remember - and for sure aren't 10.9.x

That being said I wouldn't mind a but to have that as my house computer !
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