Cast your gaze on the ultimate eye-opening experience: the new newer, shinier, and not-much-new iMacs. Starting at just $12347812734921382913, the most overrated of simple computers comes out packing a meak poke. That’s thanks to the new 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor ,that we stole the idea from M,, you’ll find in each and every new iRepeat.

"The outcast" of the family

The shiniest iMac ever, the 24-inch iMac provides "meh" performance along with the inconvenience of. Like its 17-inch and 20-inch siblings, it features the new 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor with speeds ranging from 1.83GHz to 2.33GHz. The new processor delivers up to 50% more performance than the previous 20-inch iMac. It also doubles the amount of L2 cache, the twin cores sharing 4MB between them.⁽²⁾ The result? Wasted power from an operating system that still requires you to pay thirty dollars to properly view video files fullscreen. 

Dazzling Displays

Whether you’re surfing the web, editing bad iMovie videos, moving photos from one shiny box to another, or enjoying face-time with your high friends, you’ll thoroughly enjoy the lush visual experience of working on an iMac. With excellent color saturation, all three models feature a cinematic 16:10 wide aspect ratio that’s perfect for watching movies. And iMac delivers a beautifully bright display with the new 24-inch model lighting the way. In fact, it’s a full 40% brighter than the 20-inch model. Also, packed in by default, you get to waste that beautiful screen and VRAM on the simple GUI that primarily uses two colors that looks dull and generic.

It’s a wonderful iLife

iMac comes with iLife ’06, a suite of easy-to-use applications that make the spectacular a regular part of your everyday life that take up about three gigabytes in itself. Drag, view, organize, do some awful editing, and slowly email your photos..Make an epic starring your kid in iMovie... out of... still... photos... Turn your photo and movie creations into basic, template-based DVD's that look like it took no effort with iDVD. Create boring loops of pre-made music in GarageBand, or even record your own offbeat, offpitch music. Make podcasts, which are really just MP3's and the occasional Video, and blogs. Then publish them online via your .Mac account and the all-new iWeb ⁽³⁾. The best part is that you get to remember that now, while your old OS 7, or Windows 95 machine with 128MB of ram could do this, you now get to do the exact same thing, but get to waste 10+ gigabytes doing it! What fun! That's not all! We're also brainwashing you into believing that it's new stuff. See, we recycle things. We care about the enviroment!

The ultimate see and say

There’s an iSight camera built into every new iMac, so you can start a video chat (or join one) at a moment’s notice with the few silly people who use iChat. There’s nothing extra to buy⁽⁴⁾ (NOTICE THE FOUR), nothing to attach, no cords to fumble with, no software to install or configure⁽⁵⁾.Simply start up  iChat AV, click your buddy’s video icon and you’re ready to chat with sight and sound — with up to three friends at once⁽⁶⁾. Proper attire looked down upon, as our camera monitoring service employees want some fun too.⁽⁸⁾

Now showing

With iMac, you’ve got the slowest, most space-consuming media program-program selector ever. The full-screen Front Row media experience — with its intuitive menus, large text and shiny graphics OHMEHGORSH IT'S SHINY — lets you browse the music, photos, and videos on your iMac as easily as you browse music on your iPod- inaccurately. And the new Apple Remote lets you do your browsing from 4 or less feet away! So gather your not-quite-friends-but-almost-friends and bore them with a slideshow of your vacation pics, a home movie or a DVD. iMac was born to slow.

 

Amazing interface

With the newest version of Mac OS X Tiger, you get to take up more space doing the exact same thing as you did with your old computer, only shinier. While we claim it to be the fastest, it's really nothing new. In fact, it's not even the system that makes it fast. Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever. Which one doesn't affect the speed of the computer like ram does. Our Mac OS X uses up 25 GB of hard-drive space. Joy! We managed to rip off as many features as possible from Windows, like the dock, right-click, media-based main menu thingy, and different ways to view the file structure.

1. Testing conducted by Apple in August 2006 using preproduction 24-inch iMac units with 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors; all other systems were shipping units. All systems were configured with 1 gigabyte of RAM. SPEC® is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information.
2. The 17-inch iMac model with a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor has 2MB of L2 cache.
3. Some features require .Mac. The .Mac service is available to persons age 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms and conditions apply. All your base are belong to us.
4. Provided you already have an Internet connection, of course.
5. Okay, so you might have to set up your iChat AV buddy list. And sign up for a free .Mac(2) trial account.
6. Requires broadband Internet connection; fees may apply.
7. The 17-inch iMac model with 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo processor features a 24x Combo Drive that can burn CDs but not DVDs (HAW HEEHAW HEEHAW). See the specs for full details.
8. Did you know that we programmed iChat on a non-Mac machine?