The $899 Educational iMac

Valthan writes "Macsimum news has just released news about a new version of the iMac that is being touted as an educational machine. It seems to be a nice setup, and has the cheapness that us university students strive on, I think they just may have a winner here to get people on the Mac. Now if only JCreator worked on it ..." From the article "Featuring a 17-inch widescreen LCD display, the iMac for education includes a Combo drive for burning CDs and reading DVDs, 512MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory expandable up to 2GB and hard drive storage capacity up to 160GB. Every iMac also includes a built-in iSight video camera, built-in 10/100/1000 BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet for high-speed networking, built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11g WiFi for up to 54Mbps wireless networking, a total of five USB ports (three USB 2.0) and two FireWire 400 ports."

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Re:Cheap, but not cheap enough.

[MoxFulder]

Yeah, I bought my PC about 3 months ago. It's a 2.2 ghz AMD 64-bit with 1 gig RAM, 19" LCD, and it came with a pretty nice printer. Including wifi card add-on, I spent $700 on the whole thing. Its specs kill the iMac... and it cost less, even including the Micro$oft tax. The funny thing is I never even booted Windows. The first time I turned it on was to install Ubuntu.