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Apple Debuts New Power Mac G4
Line
Revolutionary SuperDrive Now Available
for $$$$ Less
MACWORLD EXPO, NEW YORK - July 18,
2001 - Offering the ultimate in performance, expansion
and digital media solutions,
Apple® today introduced a powerful new line of Power
Mac™ G4s with 733 MHz, 867 MHz and dual 800
MHz PowerPC G4 processors. Apple's
revolutionary SuperDrive™, a combination CD-RW/DVD-R
drive that can burn DVDs which can
be played in consumer DVD players, is now standard in
Power Mac models costing less than before.
"These are the fastest Macs ever, with
867 MHz and dual 800 MHz PowerPC G4 processors," said
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With the
867 MHz processor and our revolutionary SuperDrive
together in a system costing just $2,499, more users can
now afford to create professional
quality DVDs."
The new Power Mac G4 line offers
incredible performance with systems featuring 867 MHz and
dual 800 MHz PowerPC G4 processors
with Velocity Engine™. For the ultimate in processor
utilization, both the 867 MHz and dual 800 MHz
processors include 256K of on-chip
level 2 cache running at processor speed and a large 2MB
of level 3 backside cache per processor. For
advanced graphics, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
graphics cards are now standard on all models, with the
new NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with
TwinView card for dual monitor support standard in the
dual 800 MHz model. The dual 800 MHz Power Mac G4
runs professional applications like
Adobe's Photoshop up to 83 percent faster than a 1.7 GHz
Pentium IV-based PC*.
The revolutionary SuperDrive, a
combination CD-RW/DVD-R drive, together with Apple's
pre-installed iDVD or optional DVD
Studio Pro™ software, can create
professional-looking DVDs that can be played in consumer
DVD players. The SuperDrive is now
standard in Power Mac G4 models starting at just $2,499.
The SuperDrive writes DVD-R at 2x, reads DVD
at 4x, writes CD-R at 8x, writes CD-RW at
4x and reads CD at 24x.
Housed in a updated "quicksilver" enclosure, the
Power Mac G4 line includes:
- • an award-winning design with a
side door that swings open to provide the industry's
easiest access to expansion slots
and memory;
- • five slots, including four
high-performance 64 bit 33 MHz PCI slots and an 4x AGP
slot with NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
graphics card with TwinView and 64MB of SDRAM for dual
display support in the dual 800
MHz model, or NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics
card with 32MB of SDRAM in both the 733 MHz, and
867 MHz models;
- • two 400Mbps FireWire ports and
two 12Mbps USB ports to connect the latest DV camcorders,
printers and storage
devices;
- • Mac OS X pre-installed
providing protected memory, preemptive multitasking,
advanced memory management,
symmetric multiprocessing and a highly-optimized BSD
networking architecture;
- • Apple's innovative iTunes
"jukebox" software that lets users easily manage their
own digital music collections and
burn their own standard audio CDs, Disc Burner software
to easily create data CDs, and
- iMovie 2, the world's most popular,
easy-to-use digital video editing software;
- • 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet
built-in on the motherboard for transferring large files,
such as image and digital video
files; and
- • three 3.5-inch hard disk drive
expansion bays with one pre-installed Ultra ATA hard
drive up to 80GB.
  
Apple Updates iMac
Family
Trendsetting Digital Lifestyle
Computer Now Faster, Less Expensive
MACWORLD EXPO, NEW YORK - JULY 18,
2001 - The world's best computer for today's digital
lifestyle just got better as
Apple® today introduced new
iMac™ models running at speeds up to 700 MHz and
offering slot-loading CD-RW drives at
lower prices with more memory and larger
hard drives. Available in popular iMac
colors&endash;Indigo, Snow and Graphite&endash;the
new line also comes with Apple's
next generation operating system, Mac® OS X,
pre-installed.
"The world's best computer for today's
digital lifestyle just got better," said Philip Schiller,
Apple's vice president of
Worldwide Product Marketing. "With more
power, more memory and more storage space, just think of
the digital masterpieces you can
create and share."
Offering more speed, the line includes
iMac models featuring fast new PowerPC G3 processors
running at up to 700 MHz. With
slot-loading CD-RW drives now available across the line
and iTunes pre-installed on every iMac, users can import
songs from their favorite CDs and
compress them into the popular MP3 format, and organize
their music and create custom music
CDs, starting at just $999. With larger
hard drives up to 60GB, memory up to 256MB and
iMovie™ 2, Apple's pre-installed
easy-to-use consumer digital video
editing software, users can store more digital movies.
Movies can be saved back to the
camcorder, copied to videotape or posted
to a user's own website using iTools, Apple's suite of
free Internet services.
iMac continues to lead the way as the world's best
computer for today's digital lifestyle with features
including:
- • award-winning, all-in-one
design with built-in 15-inch high-quality display with
1024x768 resolution (13.8-inch
viewable image size);
- • the fastest and easiest way to
start surfing, emailing and messaging on the
web;
- • fan-less operation that
reduces noise to half that of competitive
products;
- • slot-loading CD-RW drives for
burning music and data CDs;
- • ATI RAGE 128 Ultra with 16MB
of video RAM for outstanding graphics and realistic
gaming;
- • dual FireWire® and USB
ports for easy connections to peripherals such as DV
camcorders;
- • built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
for easy DSL and cable modem access, and a 56K V.90
modem;
- • an all-digital sound system
designed in collaboration with Harman Kardon;
- • Apple's optical Pro mouse and
full-size Apple Pro Keyboard;
- • support for optional
AirPort™, Apple's revolutionary wireless networking
solution; and
- • an incredible software bundle
offering iTunes, iMovie 2, AppleWorks®,
QuickTime®, QuickTime VR,
QuickTime Player, Quicken Deluxe 2001,
Palm Desktop, FAXstf, Cro-Mag Rally, Nanosaur,
Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Microsoft Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator and
EarthLink TotalAccess.
Apple Previews Next Version of Mac
OS X
New Version 10.1 Features Blazing
Speed and Aqua Enhancements
MACWORLD EXPO, NEW YORK&endash;July
18, 2001 - At the Macworld Expo Keynote, Apple® today
previewed Mac® OS X version
10.1, the first major upgrade to Apple's new UNIX-based
operating system. Mac OS X v10.1 will deliver
significant performance
improvements, new features and additional refinements to
the Aqua™ interface. Mac OS X v10.1 will be
available this September and will
be supported by more than 1,000 third-party native
applications.
"This new version of Mac OS X is
really fast, and incorporates many suggestions from our
users, such as the moveable Dock
that can be placed on the left, bottom or
right edge of the screen," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.
"We've fixed a lot of bugs, and
added a lot of great new features, like burning CDs right
from the Finder and the ability to seamlessly network
with Windows clients and servers."
Mac OS X v10.1 delivers improved
performance, with dramatically faster application launch
times, blindingly fast menus and
window resizing, faster logins and a more
responsive feel overall. In addition, Mac OS X v10.1
features an enhanced Aqua
interface, with a moveable Dock, which
can be placed on the right, bottom or left edge of the
screen; Dock menus that enable
running applications to present a menu
from their Dock icon providing fast access to commonly
performed functions; and new menu
items for frequently used system controls like battery,
AirPort™, monitors and sound.
Mac OS X v10.1 is the ultimate digital
hub, with the ability to create a music library and burn
music CDs with iTunes, burn data
CDs from the Finder, make movies with
iMovie™ 2, watch DVDs with the DVD Player and create
DVDs with iDVD. Macworld attendees also had the
opportunity to see their favorite applications and
third-party peripherals work natively with
Mac OS X v10.1. Top developers including
Microsoft, Adobe, Quark, FileMaker, IBM, Alias|Wavefront,
Aspyr, Blizzard, Connectix and
WorldBook showed their support by demonstrating new
applications running on Mac OS X.
Throughout the operating system, Apple has ensured
that Mac OS X v10.1 fully leverages its UNIX-based
design, significantly increases performance and provides
new features including:
- • dramatically enhanced system
performance, especially application launch time and
window resizing;
- • fine tuning of the Aqua
interface for a more customizable experience that
includes the ability to position the
Dock on the left, the right or at the
bottom of the screen;
- • data CD burning capabilities
within the Finder and DVD video playback and authoring
capabilities to support iDVD,
making Mac OS X the ultimate engine for the digital
hub;
- • broadened support for hundreds
of third-party peripherals such as printers, cameras,
camcorders, MP3 players,
rewriteable drives and storage devices;
- • unprecedented network
integration with Mac®, Windows, Linux and UNIX
environments through
AFP/AppleTalk®, SMB/CIFS, WebDAV and
NFS file services running on Mac OS X Server,
AppleShare®,
- UNIX, Linux, Windows NT and Windows
2000 servers;
- • greatly enhanced 3D graphics
performance with updated OpenGL software and full support
for NVIDIA GeForce3;
- • a more powerful and efficient
iDisk leveraging the Internet standard WebDAV protocol to
allow users to stay connected to
their iDisk, even behind corporate firewalls;
- • substantial improvements to
AppleScript® throughout the system and full support
for Internet scripting using SOAP
and XML; and
- • the final version of Internet
Explorer 5.1 with full support for Mac OS X's Java 2
runtime.
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