by David Nagel
Executive Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com
| Macworld keynote also reveals new iMacs, new iTunes, new Cube and new pricing on the Cinema Display |
| iMac,
available in Indigo, featuring a 400 MHz PowerPC G3 processor and
64MB of PC100 SDRAM, 512 KB backside cache, a 10 GB Ultra ATA hard
disk, a slot-loading CD-ROM drive, ATI RAGE 128 Pro with 8 MB of SDRAM,
a built-in 56K V.90 modem, two FireWire ports and two USB ports and
VGA video mirroring. Price: $899.
iMac, available in Indigo, Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power, featuring a 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor and 64 MB of PC100 SDRAM, 256 KB on-chip backside cache, a 20GB Ultra ATA hard disk, a slot-loading CD-RW drive, ATI RAGE 128 Ultra with 16 MB of SDRAM, a built-in 56K V.90 modem, two FireWire ports and two USB ports and VGA video mirroring. Price: $1,199. iMac Special Edition, available in Graphite, Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power, featuring a 600 MHz PowerPC G3 processor and 128 MB of PC100 SDRAM, 256 KB on chip backside cache, a 40 GB Ultra ATA hard disk, a slot-loading CD-RW drive, ATI RAGE 128 Ultra with 16 MB of SDRAM, a built-in 56K V.90 modem, two FireWire ports and two USB ports and VGA video mirroring. Price: $1,499. |
TOKYO (Feb. 22,
2001) -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered his keynote address at Macworld
Tokyo this evening. Jobs offered a few glimpses into the future of the
Mac, including a new NVidia card and new iMac models.
On the professional front, he revealed that NVidia GeForce 3 cards will
be available as build to order options on G4 desktops beginning in March.
The cards, which will appear in Macs before Windows machines, will be
available for $350 extra on higher-end models, $450 extra on lower-end
models. Jobs referred to the chip as "the most advanced" ever. With
more than 57 million transistors, it's able to perform 800 million operations
per second, including 76 billion floating point operations per second
(GigaFLOPS). The model is powered by the new NVidia nfiniteFX engine
and the LightSpeed Memory Architecture. It features 64 MB DDR SDRAM
frame buffer. It supports resolutions up to 2,048 x 1,536 at 32 bits
per pixel. At the Apple Store, the new graphics card appears to be available
on all desktop Macs. It is not available as an option for the Cube.
The new "Flower Power" iMac.
He also announced a new line of iMacs -- this time sporting more than
just new colors. Among the new features to be included in the line are
new G3 processors running 400 MHz to 600 MHz, some featuring on chip
cache. The new lineup also features ATI RAGE 128 Pro or Ultra graphics
cards with 8 MB or 16 MB SDRAM, up to 40 GB hard drives and CD-RW drives
(in two of the models). The new line ranges in price from $899 to $1,499.
The low-end model comes with a CD-ROM drive. All come with FireWire,
iMovie and iTunes and are AirPort-ready. The iMac line is now available
in two colors, indigo and graphite, as well as two new patters, "Flower
Power" and "Blue Dalmatian." All the new iMacs are available now, according
to Jobs.
The other new iMac: "Blue Dalmation."
G4 Cube prices have also been lowered, and a new model has been introduced
that comes with a CD-RW for $1,599. The older Cube now goes for $1,299.
Also receiving a price reduction (of $1000) is the Apple 22" Cinema
Display, now priced at $2,999.
On the ultra-consumer front, Jobs also announced a 1.1 update to iTunes
that makes the audio jukebox software compatible with 25 third-party
CD burners, rather than just the Apple-branded models.
For more information, visit apple.com.
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