New Powermacs
Check it, people. New Powermacs. They come in a single 1Ghz, a dual 1.25Ghz, and a dual 1.42Ghz. They feature bigger 2Mb L3 caches on the dual 1.42Ghz, and 1Mb L3 caches on the others. The new macs all feature Firewire 800, and Airport Extreme (802.11g, the newer, higher bandwidth brother to 802.11b (which is fully backward compatible, don’t worry)). They also support internal Bluetooth, and come with ATI Radeon 9000s, with GeForce4 Titanium and Radeon 9700s available as custom options.
The other sweet thing available now is a new 20inch widescreen Cinema Display, and amazing new pricing on the 23inch Cinema Display. The 23” is only $2000 now, where it was $3500 before. The 20 inch is only $1300, and the 17” has been lowered to a very affordable $800.
I’m really jazzed about the displays. I’ve been hoping for them to release an expanded display line for a while, and the prices really needed to come down a bit (and they came down more than I expected, too!). The new powermacs are nice too. With the price drops, a totally pimped out, dual display, everything maxxed to the gills dual 1.42ghz powermac is now just over $10,000, where as the previous generation would hit close to $15,000 if you pimped it out fully. Also, the single 1Ghz powermac is a very affordable $1500! Then its only $500 more than that to go up to a dual 1.25Ghz. The dual 1.25Ghz seems like the best deal at the moment, as far as I can tell, based on speed and features per dollar.
Oh well, not like it matters for me, I can’t afford any of them! Someday though, someday.. Just bide your time.. Bide your time.. Muahaha!
Tuesday 28 Jan 2003 | Sam | Apple
This was all too good to be true. I bought a 1Ghz Powermac tonight with a 25% discount.
WOO!! That is so cool! and a big discount too! Now you gotta save up for one of those 20” widescreen displays, big boy! OOO, I’m so excited for you! You have to show us pictures and all that crap when it arrives!