After days of rumors and talk, Apple Tuesday introduced a line of updated iMacs sporting NVIDIA graphics. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company unveiled four versions of its popular desktop, aimed at entry-level. mid-range and high-end users.
At $1,199, a 20-inch iMac includes a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2, 2GB RAM and 320GB hard disk drive. As with other iMacs introduced, the entry-level desktop offers the faster NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics.
Apple also introduced three versions of a 24-inch iMac for prices ranging from $1,499 to $2,199.
* 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram, 640GB hard disk drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics.
* 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram, 640GB hard disk drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT100 with 256MB.
* 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram, 1TB hard disk drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT120 with 512MB.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
