I am making this site to play with iWeb and other fun apps that came w/the imac.


First impressions


  1. Bullet Pretty box

  2. Bullet Crazy easy to setup and transfer data from my powerbook

  3. Bullet Fast as freakin’ lightning!

  4. Bullet 20” monitor is big, bright, and beautiful.

  5. Bullet Safari is as fast as it was in Steve Job’s keynote.

  6. Bullet Rosetta apps are as fast or faster than on my 1.33GHz/768MB G4 powerbook

  7. Bullet I usually hate webcams, but for some reason, I am looking for an excuse to try this one.

  8. Bullet It is very shiny :)


  9. Tech specs


  10. 2GB memory upgraded from 512MB

  11. (2nd Gig memory added 5/9/2006)

  12. 256MB Radeon upgraded from 128MB

  13. Everything else standard config.


  14. Bullet intel core duo 2GHz processor

  15. Bullet 2MB shared L2 cache

  16. Bullet 667MHz system bus

  17. Bullet 1GB (single SODIMM) PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 memory; two SODIMM slots support up to 2GB


  18. Drives


  19. Bullet 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard disk

  20. Bullet 8x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CDRW)


  21. Communications


  22. Bullet Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR module

  23. Bullet Built-in 10/100/1000 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)

  24. BulletBuilt-in 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme Card (802.11g standard)


  25. Display


  26. Bullet 20-inch (viewable) widescreen TFT active-matrix liquid crystal display

  27. Bullet 1680 x 1050 pixels, millions of colors

  28. Bullet ATI Radeon X1600 graphics processor using PCI Express

  29. Bullet 256MB GDDR3 video memory

  30. Bullet Mini-DVI output port with support for DVI, VGA, S-video, and composite video connections via adapter

  31. Bullet Built-in iSight camera

  32. Bullet Support for external display in extended desktop and video mirroring modes


  33. Size


  34. Bullet Height: 18.6 inches (47.2 cm)

  35. Bullet Width: 19.4 inches (49.3 cm)

  36. Bullet Depth: 7.4 inches (18.9 cm)

  37. Bullet Weight: 22 pounds (10 kg)


  38. Ports


  39. Bullet Two FireWire 400 ports; 8 watts shared

  40. Bullet Total of five USB ports: three USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) on computer, two USB 1.1 ports on keyboard


  41. Sound


  42. Bullet Built-in stereo speakers

  43. Bullet Internal 12-watt digital amplifier

  44. Bullet Headphone/optical digital audio output

  45. Bullet Audio line input

  46. Bullet Built-in microphone


  47. Included Software

  48. (all Universal Binary)


  49. Bullet Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger (includes Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, and Xcode)

  50. Bullet iLife ’06 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)

  51. Bullet Quicken 2006 for Macintosh

  52. Bullet Big Bang Board Games

  53. Bullet Comic Life

  54. Bullet Omni Outliner

  55. Bullet Apple Hardware Test

  56. Bullet Front Row

  57. Bullet Photo Booth