IMac G5

The iMac G5 is a Ordinateur of the type IMac launched by Apple in September 2004. It will be replaced by its evolution, the IMac (Core Duo) in January 2006 and then by the IMac (Core 2 Duet).

History

Two months after the stop of the iMac G4 sunflower, Apple leaves the IMac G5.
This product left during one time when Apple show sign of excellent financial health, in particular thanks to the sales record of the IPod. Apple bet on its product to directly compete with PC, and in particular range VAIO of Sony.

Description

This product is intended primarily for an office automation and family use.

Under the aspect of a flat screen TFT, it reveals inside the power of the processor PowerPC of IBM, the G5 (processor nativement 64 bits).
The iMac raises a sober Design like the majority of the products of Apple. The idea is to make forget the computer: this one is integrated in the flat panel display.

Various versions

The first version (August 2004)

This first version gives place to an important publicity campaign and meets a success with the height of the hopes of Apple. It is declined in 3 models:

The second version (May 2005)

This second version makes only improvements to the level of the performances and internal functions, as well as a significant decrease of the prices, and is always declined in 3 models:

The third version (October 2005)

Similar seemingly to the first iMac G5, this new model of it is not less completely different inside. Its main new thing is the camera iSight integrated placed at the top of the screen, like its infra-red remote control making it possible to make a truth " of it; media center". It has an exclusive software: PhotoBooth which makes it possible to easily take photographs quickly and using the camera iSight. The interior fitting was optimized to make it even finer and light quieter and, even if the obstruction total with the foot remains the same one. At the technical level, the two models 17" and 20" raise a screen of much better quality and profit from last technologies by integrating memory DDR2 and a graphics card NCV-Express train.

N the other hand of this greater compactness, the iMac G5 has only one site of extension RAM (the RAM of origin being welded) and the interior is much less accessible by the user.

It should be noted that Apple removed the model of line entry to keep only two models in the range: a 17" and a 20". This suppression increases the price of access to this range (1 379 € against 1.199 € before):

the iMac Core Duo

The January 10th 2006, the iMac with an Intel Core Duo microprocessor is launched, announced as being 2 times more powerful than the iMac G5. The iMac G5 will disappear from the catalog Apple two months later.

Common characteristics

The first two versions

processor: PowerPC 970 FX given rhythm between 1,6 and 2 GHz (with addressing native report 64 bits)
drunk system 128 bits given rhythm with the third the speed of the processor
ROMANIAN: 1 Mo for starting, the other instructions being charged in RAM
RAM: 256 or 512 Mo, extensible to 2 Go (or maintaining 4 Go with the new bars 2 Go)
Mémoire hiding place level 1: instructions: 64 KB, data: 32 KB
Mémoire hiding place level 2: 512 KB, given rhythm at the speed of the processor
Hard drive Serial ATA with 7200 turns/min
optical Reader to standard ATAPI
Graphics card AGP 8x
Chart wifi Extreme AirPort on certain models
Bluetooth integrated into certain models
Modem intern 56K to the standard V92
Connector industry:

2 ports Firewire 400
3 ports USB of which USB 2
Port Ethernet 10/100 Basset hound or 10/100/1000 Basset hound (Gigabit)
Video out VGA
stereo audio Input/output 16 bits

integrated Loudspeaker stereo
Characteristic of the model 17" :

Angles of vision: horizontal: 120°, vertical: 90°
Contrast: 400:1
Luminosity: 200 cd/m ²
supported Resolutions: 1440 X 900 (native resolution), 1152 X 720,1024 X 640,800 X.500, 1024 X 768,800 X 600 and 640 X 480.
Dimensions: 43,0 X 42,6 X 17,3 cm (including the base)
Weight: 8,4 kg

Characteristic of the model 20" :

Angles of vision: horizontal: 170°, vertical: 170°
Contrast: 400:1
Luminosity: 230 cd/m ²
supported Resolutions: 1680 X 1050 (native resolution), 1344 X 840,1280 X 800,1152 X 720,1024 X 640,840 X 524,800 X.500, 1024 X 768,800 X 600,640 X 480.
Dimensions: 47,2 X 49,3 X 18,9 cm (including the base)
Weight: 11,4 kg

supported Operating systems: starting from Mac OS X 10.3 .5

Third version (with iSight)

Microprocessor: PowerPC 970 FX 64 bits given rhythm between 1,9 and 2,1 GHz (L1 Memory: 64 KB, L2: 512 KB)
drunk system 128 bits given rhythm with the third the speed of the processor
ROMANIAN: 1 Mo for starting, the other instructions being charged in RAM
RAM: 512 Mo, extensible to 2,5 Go (With a slot of extension SDRAM DDR2 PC2-4200 533 MHz).
Hard drive Serial ATA with 7200 trs/min
Engraver DVD double-layer to standard ATAPI
Disappearance of the Modem 56 Kbps to the V92 standard.
video Chart NCV-Express train
Connector industry:

2 ports Firewire 400
3 ports USB of which USB 2
Port Ethernet 10/100/1000 Basset hound (Gigabit)
Video out VGA
stereo audio Input/output 16 bits

Loudspeaker stereo integrated
Extreme AirPort (Wi-Fi 802.11b and G)
Bluetooth 2
Camera ISight integrated
infra-red Remote control 5 buttons
Mouse Mighty Mouse
Keyboard Apple white
Characteristic of the model 17" :

Angles of vision: horizontal: 140°, vertical: 120°
Contrast: 500:1
Luminosity: 250 cd/m ²
supported Resolutions: 1440 X 900 (native resolution), 1152 X 720,1024 X 640,1024 X 768,800 X 600,640 X 480.
Dimensions: 43,0 X 42,6 X 17,3 cm (including the base)
Weight: 7 kg

Characteristic of the model 20" :

Angles of vision: horizontal: 170°, vertical: 170°
Contrast: 800:1
Luminosity: 280 cd/m ²
supported Resolutions: 1680 X 1050 (native resolution), 1344 X 840,1280 X 800,1024 X 768,1024 X 640,840 X 524,800 X 600,640 X 480.
Dimensions: 47,2 X 49,3 X 18,9 cm (including the base)
Weight: 10 kg

supported systems: Mac OS X 10.4; Mac OS X 10.5

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