The iMac 24-Inch (Aluminum) features a 2.4 GHz Intel “Core 2 Duo” processor, with two independent processor “cores” on a single silicon chip, a 4 MB shared level 2 cache, an 800 MHz system bus, 4GB of RAM, a 320 GB Serial ATA hard drive, a vertically-mounted slot-loading DVD+R DL “SuperDrive”, ATI Radeon HD graphics acceleration with 256 MB of memory, a built-in iSight video camera, and built-in stereo speakers underneath the 24″ glossy TFT Active Matrix LCD display designed to “bounce sound off the desk below”.
Connectivity includes three USB 2.0 ports, a Firewire port, built-in AirPort Extreme, and Gigabit Ethernet, as well as mini-DVI, which supports an external display in “extended desktop” mode.
Externally, the “Aluminum” iMac “Core 2 Duo” models feature “elegant” aluminum cases and have a glass cover that “joins precisely to the aluminum enclosure creating a virtually seamless front surface”.
Internally, some “Aluminum Core 2 Duo” models have faster processors than their predecessors.