iMac goes becomes more fast, iPod larger
Apple made today a part of its offer nicely a little more cheaply. And that is not everything: the iMac gets a faster processor and configuration, while the iPod is now available with a disk of 40 GB. Moreover is price of the portable player lowered.
By the iPod, the exclusively round new hard disks and new prices goes. As for design, everything remains by the old. The largest change finds place by the topmodels in the assortment: the 30-GB large music player disappears and becomes replace through a specimen of 40 GB. This goes with an European price drop of 599 to 549 Euros. Also the two other iPods, with 10 or 20 GB, become more cheaply. The instapmodel costs now 349 Euros, while the player gets with 20 GB a price ticket of 449 Euros. In all three cases, it goes around a drop of about 50 Euros.
Also the iMac gets a sturdy upgrade. A new topmodel with 17-inch fence (2,416 Euro) gets a G4-processor of 1.25 GHz with, completed with 512 MB DDR333-memory. The middenklasser contain the same cpu, but it must want to put with 256 MB and does without the AirPort Extreme- and Bluetooth-possibilities of the the topmodel. New by both models is the presence of a nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64 MB DDR.
The instapmodel with 15-inch LCD-screen also a light upgrade of 800 MHz gets to 1 GHz. The graphic violence is furnished here by a GEFORCE4 MX with 32 MB memory. For this apparatus, the customer must 1,427 Euros eddy count.