Posted on 01/10/2006 12:11:17 PM PST by Panerai
Apple claims its newest iMac, which features Intel’s new Core Duo processor, is twice as fast as its predecessor. Despite the major change under the hood, the iMac remains with the same design and at the same price as before, with systems starting at $1,299.
The new iMac, which starts shipping today, will be Apple’s first computer to feature a CPU built by Intel. Up until now, Apple has used the PowerPC architecture developed in conjunction with Motorola and IBM to drive all of its iMac computers.
On the outside, the iMac G5 looks the same as before — it’s a square, all-in-one design that features either a 17-inch or 20-inch LCD display. But under the hood it’s considerably faster, according to benchmarks that Apple CEO Steve Jobs put up on the screen during his keynote presentation to Macworld Expo attendees in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday.
The system features a built in iSight webcam, 8x “SuperDrive” optical drive capable of burning recordable DVD media, 512MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable to 2GB, hard drive storage capacity up to 500GB, and ATI Radeon X1600 PCI Express-based graphics with 128MB GDDR3 memory. Also standard is a wireless remote control that is held magnetically to the iMac when not in use — that remote provides you with the ability to control music, pictures and movies using Front Row, an Apple application that’s included on the iMac.
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"Apple claims its newest iMac, which features Intel’s new Core Duo processor, is twice as fast as its predecessor."
Us PC users have known that for years...LOL
you can get blades that size, or run microATX motherboards in really small chassis. much smaller than the G5 and cooler running to boot...
besides, i'd say the mercedes was the Opteron, not the Yonah...
If you can give me something with as nice a design running OSX for under that price i'll buy it.
I'll put it this way: i put together a dual core Opteron based system w/ 2G of OCZ memory and 800Gb of SATA-II RAID for about $1299, in a really slick case.
It sings along happily w/ Fedora Core 4, and you *don't* pay a 20% performance penalty for running the Apple MACH microkernel underneath OSX.
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