Apple Introduces $899 (£639) Education iMac
Posted by cashman on 05 July 2006 - 23:43 · 14 comments & 6597 views
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#1 Posted by Net-Margin on 05 Jul 2006 - 23:45
- Wow thats pretty good, I hope that my schools gets a good few of them instead of what we have now, much quicker and half-decent screen resolution capabilities.
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#1.1 Posted by Andy-Roo on 06 Jul 2006 - 00:49
- My school (the University of Waterloo) has been planning on upgrading its aging Mac labs (eMac-equipped) with new iMac machines for a couple of months now, but I'm sure the announcement of this new model will help things move along a bit quicker. Exciting news!
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#2 Posted by McG on 05 Jul 2006 - 23:50
- Great deal. Does iLife include a Word-like program, though? I'd love to see a good word processor included.
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#2.1 Posted by AdamJ89 on 05 Jul 2006 - 23:53
- No, iWork includes 'Pages' which will read/write Word Documents. Quite basic. Has Publisher-like templates. It costs extra.
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#2.2 Posted by McG on 06 Jul 2006 - 00:15
- That's still not too bad, then. I guess it's better for those who already have a suite like Office and don't want to spend the extra money to get it pre-installed.
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#3 Posted by Allan® on 06 Jul 2006 - 00:17
- s'about time this was brought to the main page. It was posted in BPN at just before 10am EST this morning. Man ... they are slow here today BUT . ..
this is good news ... low price Mac w/ Intel ... you knew it was gonna happen.
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#4 Posted by Chicane-UK on 06 Jul 2006 - 07:46
- Fairly reasonable price given that it has more horsepower than a Mac Mini Core Duo and comes with the 17" TFT built in.
Yay for Apple!
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#5 Posted by JS400 on 06 Jul 2006 - 09:37
- Plus it can run windows xp
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#6 Posted by Tim Wong on 06 Jul 2006 - 09:51
- hurray for that. i go get imac now... cheap enuf
Go apple!
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#7 Posted by wildduck on 06 Jul 2006 - 12:55
- is it only in us or also in europe?
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#8 Posted by C_Guy on 06 Jul 2006 - 14:27
- Why the crap is this considered "news"? I even got this story forwarded by my boss at work.
Wow, congratulations, Apple, on creating a lower end iMac model!
Is Neowin going to announce every new model of Dell that gets released if it is suitable for use in schools? What about Gateways or Compaq's or any other brand of computer?
Sheesh.
The iMac will feature a combo drive for burning CDs and reading DVDs, as well as 512 DDR2 memory. Apple’s built in camera will feature in the iMac as well as the popular iLife suite. While Brits can be expected to pay £150 more than our American neighbours the price will obviously be welcomed among the education sector.
Distinguishing itself from the current 17” iMac this version has the integrated graphics, the lack of a DVD burner, no bluetooth or Apple Remote.