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Well, that's pretty cool: A new iMac from Apple

by DavidAkin on Tue 31 Aug 2004 01:39 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Apple took the wraps off its latest, greatest innovation this morning, a new iMac that compresses the all-in-one form factor of the first-generation iMacs into a machine that is basically a thick flat-screen display. More cool product design. The design team, incidentally, behind the new iMac are the same folks who came up with the iPod.
Apple Canada is selling these things right away (we're still waiting in Canada to be able to use the iTunes music store). Apple Canada says a 17-inch display with a 1.6 gigahertz G5 processor will start at $1,799 while the 20-inch 1.8 GHz machine will be $2,499. More from Reuters here:

PARIS -- Apple Computer unveiled, after a
two-month delay, its new iMac desktop computer on Tuesday which
integrates disk drives and processors into a flat display less
than two inches thick. [Read the rest of the story]

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