Apple's Steve Jobs unveiled new, CD-RW equipped iMacs at MacWorld Expo Tokyo last night, as expected:
He also announced a new Cube, though with the addition of only a CD-RW drive, it's not the consumer-oriented upgrade many Apple watchers had predicted. |
In addition to CD-RW, the new iMacs get speeds bumps to their CPUs. There are no PowerPC 74xx series chips (aka G4), but the top-end Special Edition gets a 600MHz G3-class CPU, less than the 700MHz we were expecting. The bottom-end iMac ships with a 400MHz G3, the mid-range model runs at 500MHz. The top and mid-range models only contain 256KB of L2 cache, while the 400MHz machines comes with 512KB, but that's because the 500MHz and 600MHz chips are IBM parts with the L2 cache on the processor die itself, so it runs at the same speed as the CPU core.
It also ships with a regular CD-ROM drive, but that's not entirely surprising given it's mainly a classroom-oriented machine. It comes with 10GB of hard disk space and 64MB RAM. The 500MHz model is the first with a CD-RW drive, and provides 20GB of storage and 64MB of memory. The Special Edition takes those numbers to 40GB and 128MB, respectively.
Source: TheRegister
