I'm definitely the first one: I can easily imagine all sorts of apples and when I do, I tend to imagine all sorts of details as well, like specular highlights, depth-of-field, lens effects, dust/rain/snow/something else entirely, I can rotate it all in my mind and e.g. the specular highlight I mentioned react accordingly, as if there was a light source and so on. I've always been good at visualizing geometric objects as well, including multiple ones simultaneously and I can rotate everything in my mind easily -- together or separately.
Alas, it's all stuff I've experienced in some way before. I am as creative as a lead brick: I cannot for the life of me come up with something new, something I haven't seen or heard of before in one form or another. I am hugely envious of all the truly creative people who can just imagine all sorts of wondours things out of thin air and then follow that up by bringing those to life on paper or a computer screen or whatever -- that is truly an impossible task for me.