Apple has decided to show the EDU market even more love and has unveiled a slimmed-down 17-inch iMac for all y'all eating reheated Ramen noodles for breakfast in your dorm room right now. This model sells for a mere $899 (down from $1199 for the next model up) and includes a 1.83 Intel Core Duo CPU, as well as the typica 1440 x 900 resolution. However, the main specs that took a step down from the base retail version are a Combo drive, an 80GB Serial ATA hard drive and an Intel GMA 950 graphics with 64MB of shared memory, instead of the Radeon X1600 in the other retail versions.Students and EDU sys admins who have been pinching pennies can rejoice, for this model is shipping within 1-3 business days.
So,
yesterday, I decided to be conservative, save some money, and purchase the 17-inch Dual Core iMac, which was in stock
at the Palisades Apple Store, rather than wait for the more expensive 20-inch to arrive. After all, I've already
ordered a fully-loaded, top of the line MacBook Pro, so I may as well be conservative with the iMac. Also, someone at
the Apple Store screwed up, because when I got the iMac home and unpacked it, I had a free upgrade to a wireless
keyboard and mouse. Nice! I need to order more RAM and the monitor adapter (wish they'd included it...), so I can plug
in another monitor and try the monitor spanning trick.
