The 24-inch iMac with a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo represents the point where Apple’s aluminum iMac design matured into a genuinely high-end all-in-one desktop, pairing the sleek post-2007 enclosure with a large 1920×1200 display and faster 45 nm “Penryn” Intel processors in Apple’s April 2008 refresh. It helped cement the Intel iMac as a serious home and creative-work machine rather than just a stylish consumer Mac, sitting near the peak of the 24-inch iMac era just before Apple moved the line toward the larger 27-inch models.
