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Apple announces new iMacs with aluminum enclosure, glass displays
Well the rumors that date all the way back to May were true - today Apple announced a redesigned, cheaper iMac and the loss of the 17-inch model. Let us all take a moment of silence for our fallen comrade.
Now that that's over, let's get to the good stuff. The new iMac tosses aside the old 'n busted plastic and LCD design for two of Apple's increasingly favorite materials: aluminum and glass (Exhibit A: the iPhone). Steve says customers absolutely love the glass and glossy displays, so the new iMac now continues the trend. With the loss of the 17-inch, however, the lineup has been slimmed down to two primary model sizes: a 20-inch now starting at $1199, and a 24-inch at $1799. For their respective sizes, this is a price drop of $200 across the board, but this now means that the barrier to entry for the iMac lineup has actually risen by $200.
The new models, their features and prices are as follows:
- 20-inch introductory iMac: 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 250 GB SATA Hard Drive, 8x SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT video card - $1199
- 20-inch mid-level iMac: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 320 GB SATA Hard Drive, 8x SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro video card - $1499
- 24-inch top line iMac: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 320 GB SATA Hard Drive, 8x SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro video card - $1799
All new iMacs feature that fancy, 0.33-inch keyboard that was leaked not long ago, and all models are available and shipping immediately. Ladies and gentlemen, you may now let the credit cards fly!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Moose said 2:49PM on 8-07-2007
Them's some ugly computers. Glad I told my friend to buy one last month.
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Justin said 2:43PM on 8-07-2007
The education store is still down.
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Luigi193 said 2:44PM on 8-07-2007
NOT TRUE!!! The apple store keeps failing, but I did get in and saw a top top of teh line imac, 2.8gz, 2 gigs ram, 500gb HDD.
2200
check your facts TUAW!!!!
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James C. said 2:46PM on 8-07-2007
OK...im extremely confused! The keyboard that was showed in the presentation had no numeric keypad on the side of the keyboard. However, the one in the commercial has the keypad. WHICH IS IT? I feel like that is something important.
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Eric said 2:48PM on 8-07-2007
Yeah, he's right.
24inch: 2.8 GHz
2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme
2GB memory
500GB hard drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory
I am no liar, I saw this myself. If it doesn't show up later, it must be a mistake on Apple's part.
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joemc72 said 2:49PM on 8-07-2007
James C. The new wired keyboard has a num pad, the wireless one does not.
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David Chartier said 2:49PM on 8-07-2007
Guys I'll update the post right now, but I wrote these stats based on Engadget's screenshot *from the press show floor.* Calm down, I'll update and everything will be fine.
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David Chartier said 2:50PM on 8-07-2007
Link to Engadget's picture FWIW:
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/08/dsc_1322.jpg
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Brad Proctor said 2:52PM on 8-07-2007
Why oh why did they change the expose keys! If you notice the icons on the keyboard reference to a change in the function keys that correlate with expose and dashboard!
Don't change something is not broken!
F3 - expose all windows
F4 - Dashboard
and notice no fn key meaning the other f keys are useless besides the pre-mapped functions.
And of course there is not an Apple logo on the command key - but that will help the strange confusion of the command key vs. apple key
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Michael B. said 2:51PM on 8-07-2007
WAIT?!?! How can the f12 serve as a volume function?!?!?!?!? What about dashboard??????????
What was wrong with the order of the function keys anyway?
And what is the price higher???
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Luigi193 said 2:51PM on 8-07-2007
Sorry david, just thought it was cool, excited not angry!!
I still love you.
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JJ said 2:55PM on 8-07-2007
the 2.8GHz model is a build-to-order option ONLY.
also, i'm REALLY disappointed about the glossy-only screens. aren't these horrible to use for anyone who has color-critical work? (like print, animation, design, etc.) or can you compensate for it using the correct ColorSync(?) profile?.......
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Luigi193 said 2:57PM on 8-07-2007
they listed it as a seperate item...
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jamminman said 2:57PM on 8-07-2007
lol does anyone know what the song in the new imac commercial is?
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Scott said 2:59PM on 8-07-2007
I've been waiting since February to buy a new iMac. These look great! If they threw in a coupon for a free upgrade to Leopard in October, I'd be buying one today. As it is, I'll wait it out a couple of months.
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David Chartier said 3:00PM on 8-07-2007
@Luigi: No worries. The numbers and news are flying faster than you can say... well just about anything. :)
Also: I think we killed the Apple Store. It was up for a second, but now it's dead.
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Luigi193 said 3:03PM on 8-07-2007
I shot the Applestore BUT I DIDN'T KILL THE STEVEY JOBS!!!!
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Surreal said 3:17PM on 8-07-2007
I really want one of these but I'm so disappointed they still don't offer "video in": I would love to be able to use them as a standalone monitor and plug my xbox 360 (or even my laptop) to them.
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Eric said 8:32PM on 8-07-2007
The Apple Store was online for a second, just the main screen, but it's gone again. Oh well.
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jonas said 3:41PM on 8-07-2007
eeewwww.. those GPUs are horrible!
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