Instead of requiring your neck, shoulders and back to
do the adjusting, the new iMac’s display literally glides through
the air — allowing you to effortlessly adjust its height or angle
with a touch of your finger. And our revolutionary SuperDrive that lets
you burn your own DVDs in addition to custom CDs. It’s clear that
the new iMac is several leaps ahead of any other computer out there. Just
like its predecessor.
From Wired Magazine :
Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off three new models of iMacs starting at
$1,300, the same price as the original iMacs that have proven fruitful
for the company.
The new iMacs consist of a 15.1-inch, flat-screen display that is affixed
through a flexible arm to a 10.6-inch sphere that hosts the computing
components. The never-understated Jobs said "We wanted to make it
perfect for you, and we think we got pretty close."The LCD panel
can display millions of colors at 1024-by-768-pixel resolution, and has
a typical viewing angle of 120 degrees horizontal and 90 degrees vertical.
Jobs said the company is phasing out the boxy iMacs, but did not say
exactly when the company would stop selling them. "We've seen the
official death of the CRT (referring to the cathode ray tube monitors
that have always accompanied PCs)."
The top of the line iMac is powered by an 800 MHz G4 processor, while
two other models will use 700 MHz CPUs. Jobs repeated himself from previous
iMac introductions, proclaimed the latest redesign as the "best thing
we've ever done."
The $1,800 top-of-the-line iMac is available later in January, and features
Apple's all-purpose SuperDrive which can record and playback DVDs and
CDs. A $1,500 model that will debut in February features a combination
DVD-CD drive, and a $1,300 model with a CD-rewriteable drive will be out
in March.
The small dome somewhat resembles the Airport networking station that
Apple released in July 1999. According to Jobs, shrinking the size of
the computer "eliminates the problems of boxes spewing all over the
house."
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