Personally, when Apple first introduced the iMac G5, I had a hard time accepting that rather huge ‘bar’ underneath the screen but after a few months, it grew on me, and by the time they released the new iMac I was accustomed to it. The design is a matter of taste, I guess. This is a definite step up from my rather, sorry to say, flimsy iBook G4, which is of a much lower build quality than this iMac (battery and keyboard of the iBook don’t fit properly, the armrests squeak when pressed, the ‘open lid’ button doesn’t work as it should, etc.). There’s only one other machine I have that comes close to the iMac’s build quality, and that is my Sun Ultra 5 UltraSPARC machine (which also feels as solid as a brick). The solid, hard plastics, the magnesium stand, the total lack of joints it all added to the quality feeling of the iMac. The first thing that immediately came to my attention while setting the machine up on my desk, was the build quality of the machine. As I have come to expect from Apple, the machine was very well packaged, and it was literally plug-and-play. The machine came loaded with Mac OS 10.4.2 (which I quickly updated to 10.4.3), which is also available on a rescue CD. These add up to a total price of EUR 1437.32, which includes taxes. Apple Keyboard, Mighty Mouse ( OSNews review), built-in speakers, remote control.Ati Radeon X600 Pro 128MB DDR SDRAM, PCIe 16x.1.9Ghz PowerPC G5 with 512K L2 cache, and a FSB of 633Mhz.The iMac MacSupport loaned to us had the following set of specifications: Please bear in mind that this will not be a review of Mac OS X Tiger, but of the new iMac G5, and its new features in particular. In this article, we will try to answer the question if the current iMac G5 is worth its price tag. We will then take a look at how various PPC versions of Linux distributions perform. In a second article we will focus on a whole different animal: Linux. First off, we’ll be focusing on the iMac in combination with Mac OS X.

OSNews will be making good use of the iMac G5. MacSupport was so kind as to provide OSNews with this new iMac G5 here are our findings. Apple also introduced Front Row, a remote control, and a built-in iSight camera. They had managed to make the iMac G5 even thinner, while at the same time upgrading its specifications. When Apple introduced the latest incarnation of its iMac G5 product line, the reactions were almost exclusively those of praise.

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