New iMac Boasts 24-inch Screen

6 Sep, 2006 at 12:15pm ET Article published in Tech

On the upside, that is indeed a great deal of screen real estate. On the downside, wasn’t a small footprint one of the main selling points for the iMacs?

Apple has announced that its iMac range now exclusively uses the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and it’s celebrating the happy occasion by adding a 24in widescreen iMac to the existing 17 and 20in models.

The 17in starts at £679 with a basic 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 512MB RAM, 160GB SATA HDD, a CD/DVD combo drive, Intel GMA950 graphics and a screen resolution of 1,440×900. You can spec this up to a 2GHz CPU with 1GB RAM, a DVD writer and Radeon X1600 graphics for £799.

If you fancy a 20in display with 1,680×1,050 resolution then you’ll pay at least £999 for a 2.16GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 250GB SATA HDD, DVD writer, X1600 graphics and Bluetooth, but what you want to hear about is the 24-incher.

£1,349 gets you a similar spec to the 20in model, but the new 24in widescreen model has an enormous resolution of 1,920×1,200 pixels that should satisfy the most ardent movie buff. Apple has wisely chosen to upgrade the graphics to GeForce 7300GT.

Source: The Register

Comments

6 Sep 2006 ~ 12:17pm Enverex The pictures look odd, you'd think the big white-space at the bottom of the monitors would shrink a little, looks like one of those things that would drive me mad due to it seeming like the monitor screen isn't in the middle of the monitor or close to it...
6 Sep 2006 ~ 12:42pm Garg $1999 for the 24-incher, and other USD prices at Engadget.
6 Sep 2006 ~ 12:53pm profdlp

Gargoyle wrote:

$1999 for the 24-incher, and other USD prices at Engadget.

I have a 14-incher and I can't even give it away.
6 Sep 2006 ~ 1:59pm Enverex Gah, I wish I'd have known, I had to pay like $160 for this crappy 15" to use this infernal laptop.
6 Sep 2006 ~ 2:24pm Garg

profdlp wrote:

I have a 14-incher and I can't even give it away.

Suuuuure you do.
6 Sep 2006 ~ 2:36pm Winga If you had a 14-incher I'm quite sure Mrs Prof wouldn't let you give it away
6 Sep 2006 ~ 3:14pm primesuspect The hard drive is behind that big white bottom bezel. The white part on the bottom is just a bit bigger than 3.5" - enough to accomodate the HD and the cooling channel for it.
6 Sep 2006 ~ 4:07pm Garg Why don't they just put it behind the LCD?
6 Sep 2006 ~ 4:15pm primesuspect I think thickness is a worry. It would be very fat if they put it behind the LCD.
6 Sep 2006 ~ 4:24pm Garg Nay. Phat.
6 Sep 2006 ~ 4:45pm shwaip

primesuspect wrote:

I think thickness is a worry. It would be very fat if they put it behind the LCD.

When you've got 24 inches, is thickness really that much of a worry?
6 Sep 2006 ~ 9:24pm PirateNinja I hate these things. The mobos suck and so do the cdroms. Unless something has changed, applecare to the limit. Also I thought the hd was behind the screen, maybe not on the new revs then.