Apple is bringing the big screen to its all-in-one iMac desktop. The company on Tuesday revealed a new iMac with a 20-inch display and also updated its Power Mac G5 desktop line with a dual 1.8GHz processor model. The new desktops should increase the appeal of the iMac for multimedia tasks and give Power Mac customers more options, Apple said in statements. The iMac's display, which offers a resolution of up to 1,680 by 1,050 pixels, will allow customers to view two documents side by side and also grant more real estate for tasks such as video editing, Apple said.
The 20-inch iMac comes with a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 256MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, Nvidia GeForce FX Ultra 5200 graphics chip and Apple's SuperDrive DVD recorder/CD burner. It is available now for $2,199, Apple said. The 20-inch iMac follows updated 15-inch and 17-inch iMacs, which came out in September. The 17-inch iMac, which has the same hardware as the 20-inch model, costs $1,799, Apple said.
Meanwhile, the dual 1.8GHz Power Mac G5, also available now, sells for $2,499, or $500 less than Apple's dual 2GHz machine, the company said. The new machine comes with a pair of IBM PowerPC 970 chips running at 1.8GHz, along with 512MB of RAM; a 160GB hard drive; an Nvidia GeForce FX Ultra 5200 chip; and the SuperDrive. Each of its processors sports a 900MHz front-side bus, Apple said. The speed of the front-side bus basically measures how quickly data can be delivered to a processor. With the introduction of the dual 1.8GHz machine, Apple also shuffled its PowerMac G5 lineup. The new, dual-processor machine replaces a single-processor 1.8GHz Power Mac G5, but costs only $100 more.
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The 20-inch iMac comes with a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 256MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, Nvidia GeForce FX Ultra 5200 graphics chip and Apple's SuperDrive DVD recorder/CD burner. It is available now for $2,199, Apple said. The 20-inch iMac follows updated 15-inch and 17-inch iMacs, which came out in September. The 17-inch iMac, which has the same hardware as the 20-inch model, costs $1,799, Apple said.
Meanwhile, the dual 1.8GHz Power Mac G5, also available now, sells for $2,499, or $500 less than Apple's dual 2GHz machine, the company said. The new machine comes with a pair of IBM PowerPC 970 chips running at 1.8GHz, along with 512MB of RAM; a 160GB hard drive; an Nvidia GeForce FX Ultra 5200 chip; and the SuperDrive. Each of its processors sports a 900MHz front-side bus, Apple said. The speed of the front-side bus basically measures how quickly data can be delivered to a processor. With the introduction of the dual 1.8GHz machine, Apple also shuffled its PowerMac G5 lineup. The new, dual-processor machine replaces a single-processor 1.8GHz Power Mac G5, but costs only $100 more.
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That's cool a dual for only $100 more. Wish they'd bump up the video card a bit at that price. Hopefully, come spring time the prices will have dropped a bit more ... a few hundred bucks will fit my budget nicely ... with a student discount of course
Makes me wonder though how much they're really paying IBM for the processors ... if they're only charging $100 more.
BC
I suspect both.
Didn't know this forum turned into a price posting site all of a sudden. I saw a car the other day that was 23,000. Wow.
Yeah, too bad this article isn't about cars, idiot.
I know I saw a can of Coke for $1 once.
You sure?
"The company on Tuesday revealed a new iMac with a 20-inch display"
"The iMac's display, which offers a resolution of up to 1,680 by 1,050 pixels, will allow customers to view two documents side by side and also grant more real estate for tasks such as video editing, Apple said."
Doesn't mention a car. Anywhere. If you're going to be lame, you could at least pick something that's mentioned in the article.
-Cara
Last edited by 14112 on 20 Nov 2003 - 01:05
$2,000 is pretty cheap for a computer bundled with a monitor bigger than the average 15" and 17" ones.
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