Macworld: Jobs debuts new iMacs; lowers Cube price
By Brad Gibson
MacworldFEB 21, 2001 4:00 pm PST
In front of a
Tokyo Expo audience and hundreds of thousands watching worldwide via satellite,
Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs announced faster iMacs with two new colors, lowered the price of the Cube and announced a new 450Mhz Cube with CD-RW drive.
iMac, available in the Indigo, featuring a 400MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 64MB of memory, 512K backside cache, a 10GB Ultra ATA hard disk, a slot loading CD-ROM drive, ATI RAGE 128 Pro with 8MB of SDRAM, a built-in 56K V.90 modem, two FireWire ports and two USB ports, VGA video mirroring and is AirPort ready for a suggested retail price of US$899.
iMac, available in Indigo, Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power colors, featuring a 500MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 64MB of memory, 256K on-chip backside cache, a 20GB Ultra ATA hard disk, a slot-loading CD-RW drive, ATI RAGE 128 Ultra with 16MB of SDRAM, a built-in 56K V.90 modem, two FireWire ports and two USB ports, VGA video mirroring and is AirPort ready for a suggested retail price of $1,199.
iMac Special Edition, available in Graphite, Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power, features a 600MHz PowerPC G3 processor and contains 128MB of memory, 256K on-chip backside cache, a 40GB Ultra ATA hard disk, a slot-loading CD-RW drive, ATI RAGE 128 Ultra with 16MB of SDRAM, a built-in 56K V.90 modem, two FireWire ports and two USB ports, VGA video mirroring and is AirPort ready for a suggested retail price of $1,499.
All iMac models come preinstalled with Apple’s
iMovie 2, and standard with Apple’s optical mouse and full-size Apple Pro Keyboard.
Jobs also introduced a
new Power Mac G4 Cube with a slot-loading CD-RW drive for $1,599 and lowered the price of the 450MHz original Cube from $1,499 to $1,299.
Build-to-order options available on The Apple Store include 500MHz PowerPC G4 processors, memory up to 1.5GB, NVIDIA GEForce2 MX with 32MB of SDRAM or ATI RADEON with 32MB of DDR RAM, up to 60GB ATA/66 hard disk drive, a slot-loading DVD-ROM drive, AirPort Card and AirPort Base Station, and Harman Kardon SoundSticks speakers and subwoofer.
Apple also announced it is lowering the price of the
22-inch Cinema Display $1,000 from $3,999 to $2,999.
Jobs also announced Mac systems will be the first to include the GeForce 3, a next-generation graphics processor developed by
Nvidia Corp. Calling it the “most advanced graphics chip ever,” Jobs said the new card has 57 million transistors and processes internally at 76 gigaflops.
“This thing is amazing, and it’s going to be available first on the Mac,” Jobs told the crowd. The card will be a build-to-order option, beginning in March, for $600.
