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Apple Breaking News (again...)

Posted by dmoynihan Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Promowebcast20051013aToday, Apple announced a slew of new and upgraded products:




New/Uprgaded PowerBooks



15" & 17" - Bumped up screen resolutions 1440x960 / 1660 x 1050

22% greater battery life



SuperDrives for everyone





New PowerMacs



Dual-core PowerPC processors in addition to a new system architecture that supports 16GB of 533MHz DDR2 RAM

1 terabyte (TB) of internal Serial ATA (SATA) storage



PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots



Four new graphics options for the refreshed Power Mac G5 line



PowerMac G5 Quad, essentially four G5's stuffed in a box



Eight floating point units

Four velocity engines



Four 1MB Level 2 caches and is capable of processing 76.6 gigaflops



Power Mac G5 Pricing:

Single-processor, dual-core configuration clocked at 2.0GHz for $1,999.00

2.3GHz dual-core system costs $2,499.00

“Quad” dual-processor, dual-core system starts at $3,299.00



Cinema HD Displays

Apple reduced the pricing on its 23-inch ($1499.00) and 30-inch ($2999.00) CInema HD Displays by $200.00 and $400.00 respectivley.



More info at Apple.



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