| Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently announced a total refresh for the iMac all-in-one desktop computer line, plus “completely new versions” of Apple’s iLife and iWork application suites, the latter gaining Numbers, a new spreadsheet application.
Jobs also showed new features for Apple’s $99.95-per-year .Mac online service.
Reflecting their place in what Jobs called “a very clean product line”, the new iMacs feature a new, aluminum-and-glass enclosure that echo the professional look of Apple’s Mac Pro and MacBook Pro products. The new line includes 20- and 24-inch models, dropping the previous generation’s 17-inch model.
However, Jobs said, a low-end 20-inch model is priced at $1,119, the same as the 17-inch obsolete model. This includes a glossy LCD screen, a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, a slot-load 8x SuperDrive, an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT video card, and a 250GB Serial ATA hard drive.
The next step up is a $1,499 20-inch model, but with 2.4GHz processor, a 320GB Serial ATA hard drive and an ATI Radeon 2600 PRO video card with 256MB of RAM. Identical specs are found in the top-of-the-line model, which at $1,799 adds a 24-inch glossy screen.
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