Among its numerous announcements on Tuesday , Apple introduced its new Fusion Drive technology . The Fusion Drive , which is usable as an option for the newiMacand bothMac minimodels , is a hybrid private road that blend a 128 GB flash effort with a strong movement — all into a single bulk .
Apple senior frailty president of general selling Phil Schiller discover the ride as quicker both when say and writing data point than traditional hard drives : You get the speed of a firm - commonwealth driving force and tenacious - term storage squirrel away on the cheaper , more low-priced hard drive part .
Schiller explained that Mountain Lion and the apps that ship with your Mac — like iTunes and iPhoto — lodge in on the flash thrust ; other information you add fills up the traditional intemperate drive . But the Fusion Drive is smart and handles data storage automatically : If you utilise Numbers more then iMovie , for example , it will mechanically move number to the flash side , with iMovie moving to the traditional drive side . Mac OS Adam figures out what computer program you expend the most and what would gain from being on Flash .
Exact pricing for the new iMac with the Apple Fusion Drive installed is not yet available ; Apple says that Fusion Drive upgrades will be available in 1 TB for the 21.5 - inch iMac , and 1 TB or 3 TB capacities for the 27 - column inch iMac . The 21.5 - inch iMac starts at $ 1299 and will begin shipping in November . The 27 - inch iMac get at $ 1799 and begins ship in December .
Apple bid a $ 250 1 TB Fusion Drive acclivity for the $ 799 2.3GHz Core i7 Mac mini . Pricing for the Mac mini startle at $ 599 for the 2.5GHz dual - core i5 version with 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB HDD .
update at 12:15 p.m. PT with pricing info of the Fusion Drive in the Mac mini .
