HD For Indies

Apple today announced the new iMac G5. It's basically a 17" LCD (same size as 17" PowerBook), with some guts underneath that bring the overall case aspect ratio to more like 4:3, and all the guts either underneath or behind the screen. It's less than 2 inches thick. Nice. There's also a 20" model. I bet you can find links for it without me taking the trouble. This isn't an HD workstation really. You could do DVC PRO HD stuff with it, but it's expansion capabilities are so limited this is about all the coverage I'm going to give it. 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz models in 17 or 20 inch sizes, respectively. Minimal RAM & HD: 256MB, 80GB drives. Clearly they were trying to keep starter costs low with these itty bitty RAM & HD specs.

According to MacinTouch, some folks who ordered the 30" Apple Cinema display have had their ship dates pushed back from 8/31/04 to 10/25/04. So if it ships the 25th, you'll get it around Halloween I'd imagine....

-mike