Apple Ships New iMacs

Apple's all-new iMac was redesigned from the ground up with a 15-inch LCD flat screen that floats in mid-air—allowing users to adjust its height or angle with just a touch. The new iMac also features a 700 MHz or 800 MHz PowerPC G4 processor and Apple’s SuperDrive for playing and burning CDs and DVDs. The new iMac line includes three models, starting at $1,299. The new iMac’s 15-inch LCD flat screen has a resolution of 1024 by 768 and offers approximately the same viewing area as a 17-inch CRT display. It’s also twice as bright and three times as sharp as old-fashioned CRT displays, and it’s much easier on the eyes, with zero flicker.

Inside the new iMac’s ultra-compact base lives the fastest iMac ever, with a Pentium-crushing 800 MHz* G4 processor with Velocity Engine; a SuperDrive for playing and burning custom CDs and DVDs; up to one gigabyte of memory; up to a 60GB hard drive; and NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics with 32MB of DDR memory, which triples the 3D performance over previous models.

The new iMacs are designed to be the ultimate center of our emerging digital lifestyle and run Apple’s award-winning suite of software for digital photography, music and video. All new iMac models include iMovie 2; and iTunes 2, the amazing digital music software that lets users put an entire music collection on their Mac®, burn custom CDs and seamlessly sync to Apple’s new iPod portable digital music player. And, all new iMac models equipped with a SuperDrive include iDVD 2, so users can easily create and burn their own custom DVDs that play in consumer DVD players.

Every new iMac is also designed to run Apple’s new iPhoto software —the missing link in digital photography (available as a free download at www.apple.com). With iPhoto, users can easily import images directly from digital cameras; organize and manage a photo collection containing thousands of photos; view cross-dissolved slide shows of their photos on iMac’s stunning flat screen; automatically create a professional-looking web page of their photos; order professional-quality Kodak prints and enlargements; and even create and order a custom-printed, linen-bound book of their photos.

Additional features of the new iMac line include:

• 2 FireWire and 5 USB ports for fast, simple, plug-and-play connections to digital devices such as digital MP3 players, still cameras and DV camcorders;
• built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet and 56K V.90 modem;
• an internal 18-watt digital amplifier for great stereo sound and Apple Pro speakers on selected models;
• a collection of productivity and entertainment titles including Quicken Deluxe 2002; and
• Mac OS X version 10.1.2, Apple’s next-generation operating system pre-installed as the default OS, as well as Classic Mac OS 9.2.2.

The 800 MHz iMac ($1,799)includes:

• DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive optical drive;
• 256MB SDRAM;
• 60GB Ultra ATA hard drive; and
• Apple Pro Speakers.

The 700 MHz iMac ($1,499) includes:

• DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo optical drive;
• 256MB SDRAM;
• 40GB Ultra ATA hard drive; and
• Apple Pro Speakers.

The 700 MHz iMac ($1,299) includes:

• CD-RW optical drive;
• 128MB SDRAM; and
• 40GB Ultra ATA hard drive.

Build-to-order options for the new iMac include additional memory, Apple Pro Speakers, AirPort Base Station and AirPort Card and the AppleCare Protection Plan. www.apple.com