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Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products
An anonymous reader writes "After being down for a couple of hours, the Apple store reopened this morning. All of the speculation has turned out to be a reality with Apple dishing out many new products and among them are; iMac 20", three iMac 24" models, two Mac Mini models, and two Mac Pro models — with one including an ATI Radeon HD 4570 graphics card. Also as rumored, there was the new Airport Extreme, and Time Capsule in 1TB. The Mac Pro is the granddaddy of them all. The lower-end Quad Core system includes a 2.66Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor, 3GB of memory, 640GB hard drive, 18x double-layer Superdrive, and a NVIDIA Geforce GT 120 with 512MB of memory priced at $2,499. Finally, we have the 8-core system which includes two 2.26Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, 6GB of memory, 640GB hard drive, the 18x double-layer Superdrive, and of course the NVIDIA Geforce GT 120 with 512MB of memory priced at $3,299."
Grandparent has it totally wrong about the prices, at least on the mini. There was no increase in price, but this is slashdot and everybody loves to hate Apple. The new ones are $599 and $799, which are exactly the same as the old one, if you don't believe the newegg, look at the wikipedia page on them it has all the prices and specs for the old models. Also, as you can see here, Newegg has one of the old models for sale still. They price it at $594, according to wikipedia it's the lower priced model with a smaller hard drive.
The big differences I see is a larger hard drive (120 GB vs. 80GB on the basic), Firewire 800 on the new one vs. 400 on the old one (!!! Looks like firewire ain't dead yet!), display port video out + mini-DVI vs. just mini-DVI, a bump in the processor up to 2 GHz from 1.83 GHz, DDR3 memory vs. DDR2 in the old one (which is nice), and finally the new one has NVIDIA 9400M vs. Intel GMA 950. Oh, and the front side bus is 1066 MHz now vs. 667 MHz previously.
Overall it looks like a nice upgrade on the system.
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Except that you don't see any desktop makers supporting 8GB of ram yet... (32GB on the mac pro.) How long has 64Bit vista been out now? Go find a consumer focused piece of hardware that can do that from HP or Dell or Lenovo.. I've been wanting to throw 8GB of ram into a system to play with more advanced stuff in Linux. (video editing, etc) I am now going to seriously look at the iMac.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
You are wrong, from the page you quote, for all models of the imac: "Support for external display in video mirroring mode"
A half-joking prediction -- what do you bet Apple buys someone like Drobo or just builds their own prior to Snow Leopard's release, just to try to gather in the "I hate that there's no slots in this thing" crowd? Or perhaps a dual or quad drive Time Capsule? They often pay attention when the dumb-beat of whining gets high enough, but they rarely do it the way you think they're going to...
+++OK ATH