With an incredible reception from the MacWorld audience, Steve Jobs unleashes an iMac based on Intel's Core Duo processor
MacWorld -- Apple has shown the next generation of iMacs which are based on Intel's Core Duo processor. Apple says that the new iMac is more powerful than any PC in its class with benchmarks showing that the new Duo Core iMac is 2 to 3 times faster than current G5 iMacs.
Apple also says that the new iMac will come with OS X 10.4.4 and all applications and utilities included have been recompiled to run natively on the new platform. Professioanl applications such as Aperture and Final Cut will be available sometime in March. For now, any application not yet recompiled for the x86 architecture will still be supported by the new system using Rosetta -- OS X's real-time x86 binary code translation layer. Microsoft's Office for Mac is also currently undergoing transisition to universal binaries but currently will also run on Rosetta.
Apple says that the new iMacs are immediately today with configurations supporting 20" and 17" displays.
We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk." -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs
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