I suspect the iMac is built off the same motherboard as the laptop so
they might not have things engineered to handle the heat or power from a
faster drive. Or Apple is just being cheap :) The iMac takes a 2.5" SATA
drive and a 1TB 7200 RPM drive is about $120 from Other World Computing.
Downside is that to upgrade your internal drive after the factory is a
non-trivial bit of work:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167510/ins_and_outs_of_upgrading_your_imac.html
so you might be better off just adding an external fast Thunderbolt
drive down the road, migrating everything over there and ignore the
internal drive (or use it for achive/backup). Interesting that Apple
does offer the 7200 RPM drives on the bigger (more expensive) 27" model.
CB
On 6/16/13 11:00 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
Imacs do come with hard drives, or you can get the fusion drive or all flash
storage, for a price, of course. What surprised me was that the iMac hard drive
option is a 5400 rpm drive. †hat blew me away. I'd think they'd offer 7200 rpm.
But the Apple store site clearly has it as a 5400 rpm, like laptops and the Mac
mini.
Mary
Mary Otten
motte...@gmail.com
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