It’s about time Apple came out with another machine for schools. They used to dominate this category once.
Apple has begun offering, through educational channels, a new low-priced Intel iMac. At US$899 the new iMac is priced US$400 cheaper than anything available to the general public and just US$100 more then the high-end Intel Mac mini.
One might expect a horribly crippled machine at this price but the US$899 model actually compares fairly well to the US$1299 model. Both machines use the Intel 1.83 GHz Core Duo and sport a 17-inch widescreen LCD.
The only major differences are that the EDU iMac comes standard with a 80GB drive (vs. 160GB), a 24x Combo Drive (vs. 8x Super Drive), and Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics with 64MB of shared memory (vs. ATI Radeon X1600 with 128 MB).
Dvorak, c’mon, get with the program. This was a big announcement last week; the article you linked is from July 5. This used to be a good tech site where a user could find the cool new stories, but now it’s just digg’s recycled crap.
ah, give the old crank some credit, he still gets up early in the morning, just takes awhile to get on the slippers and find his way out of the room.
Ho-hum. Another troll who doesn’t know who’s posting what at whichever site. Why is this site suddenly attracting myspace rejects?
Thanks for the Post, Alix. It’s useful for those of us who aren’t mouse potatoes.
Moss, an apt use of the term mouse potato. Besides, it is news to me too.
Nate is also oblivious to the comment guidelines:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/misc/commentguidelines.html
And yes.. he can’t even tell who posted what. sigh…
Maybe the blog primer will help him…
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/primer/blogprimer1.htm
…but I doubt it.
Wow, that sounds like a kick ass machine 🙂
I think selling a cheaper iMac is a goood thing (never could understand Apple’s most famous computer being so unaffordable), but … integrated graphics for a 32bit non-notebook machine, and it’s almost $1000 (with taxes)?!
You gotta be kidding me. The same money could buy a 64bit AMD box with much more power, and no chance of being ‘grown out of’ in a year or two.
And yeah – I get the whole TCoO thing. Macs don’t have as much problems out of the box. But only the newest of the new aren’t going to have a shitload of legacy software (a lot of it stabilizing Windows just fine), and replacing that to go with Apple costs money too.
Shame – they probably could have really lit a fire under their sales with more rational pricing/specs. IMO they should drop the price another $200 OR put dedictated graphics back in (there are cheaper cards you know). Until that happens, let the Macolytes have it.