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Apple iMac Line Now Features Intel Core 2 Duo Processors In Every Model

Apple is just kicking butt and slashing prices in the desktop supercomputer for infotainment/work/study in the home this summer.

They started the year by unleashing their first Intel based Mac six months sooner than expected. They finished their conversion to the Mac line at approximately the month they had promised to begin it with this year.

Now, Apple has upgraded its entire iMac fleet from a mix of single and dual core processors to all dual core processors.

And what did Apple do to celebrate?

They cut the prices and made the screen bigger! They even made them go faster!

There are rumors that Apple will be selling full length movies starting next week.

It would be pretty cool to get the urge to see a movie one had always wanted to see, click a few buttons on an iMac, and be seeing that same movie a half an hour later on a 24-inch screen!

I think Apple might become the new television.

They sit in your house and are basically a big flat screen - with practically zero footprint. That means they to anywhere.

They, and the matching white video iPod ,have MPEG video built into them - that means they both play shows really well.

Apple iMac Line Now Features Intel Core 2 Duo Processors In Every Model:

September 6, 2006%u2014Apple� today announced that its entire iMac� line now features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor in every model, delivering up to 50 percent faster performance than the previous iMac.* A new 24-inch iMac with a brilliant 24-inch widescreen display joins the 17- and 20-inch models, and iMac prices now start at just $999. Every new iMac includes a built-in iSight%u2122 video camera for video conferencing out-of-the-box; Apple%u2019s breakthrough Front Row media experience; and iLife's, the next generation of Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications.

Every iMac from the $999 model up through the new dazzling 24-inch widescreen model now features blazing Core 2 Duo performance, said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. And the new 24-inch widescreen iMac is the fastest, biggest and brightest iMac we've ever made.

The new iMac lineup includes four models: a 1.83 GHz and a 2.0 GHz 17-inch, a 2.16 GHz 20-inch and the all-new 2.16 GHz 24-inch iMac, and features the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor which delivers up to 50 percent faster performance than the previous 20-inch iMac running industry standard benchmarks.

Apple was being begged and advised by many PC makers, with dubious motives, to switch to an Intel processor, open up their operating system, and lower their prices.

Those companies probably really wish they had never brought those suggestions up today.

Today, Apple's computers are priced down in the range of the least expensive desktop computers in the world.

They have really large screens, high capacity, and fast performance.

They are not just open – their operating system is open source. Know what? Only the Linux OS has more of its OS open source than Apple's.

The other OS? They are about as proprietary and closed as an OS can be. They have always been pretty closed but now they are more closed than ever, in fact, closing has been one of the other OS's stated goals for the past 4-5 years.

The great thing about Apple's computers that they share with televisions everywhere: it does not take 3 fingers to turn them off.

posted by John Collins @ 8:46 PM