The big news out of Macworld this year was the introduction of Intel based Mac’s into the Apple lineup.
As many of you may have heard by now, the iMac will be the first model to include the new Core Duo processors, and Nerd Approved felt it was necessary to hook you guys up with all of the necessary specs and pricing information.
Note: This time around, Apple is allowing Windows to be run on Intel based Mac’s- unfortunately this is only applicable to Vista, not XP.
Continue on to view the iMac features and specifications.
Product Information:
Processor and memory
- 1.83GHz or 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor
- 2MB shared L2 cache at full processor speed
- 667MHz system bus
- 512MB of PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SDRAM expandable to 2GB
Storage
- 160 or 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive
- 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) installed; writes DVD+R DL discs at up to 2.4x speed, writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed, writes DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs at up to 4x speed, reads DVDs at up to 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed, writes CD-RW discs at up to 8x speed, reads CDs at up to 24x speed
Graphics and Video
- ATI Radeon X1600 graphics processor using PCI Express
- 128 MB of GDDR3 video memory
- Mini-DVI output port with support for DVI, VGA, S-video, and composite video connections via adapter2
- Built-in iSight camera
- Support for external display in extended desktop and video mirroring modes
- Digital resolutions up to 1920 x 1200
- Analog resolutions up to 2045 x 1536
Software
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger (includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Xcode Developer Tools)
- iLife ’06 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand), Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, iWork (30-day trial), Quicken 2006 for Macintosh, Big Bang Board Games, Comic Life, Omni Outliner, and Apple Hardware Test
- Front Row
- Photo Booth
Pricing starts at $1299.
