Apple crippled the bus on this baby.

An iMac G5 in aluminum clothing.

Well, it does give one a bit of expandability though.

Guess $1499 is not too bad though its not the headless thingy some around here keep dreaming about.

The dream that will NEVER come true.

For just $50 extra you get the more Exposé-friendly 128Mb Radeon 9600 XT. Combine that with some spacious third-party RAM-sticks and this is a really nice machine.

Also it appears to use standard PCI rather than PCI-X. No loss to the market(s) they're aiming for, I think. And they didn't skimp on RAM-speed either. Had they gone with 333 MHz rather than 400 MHz that would have been a disappointment.

Good.

This is what a lot of people have been crying out for.

I wonder if this is the model with the cut down/smaller motherboard that was spotted in a service manual a while back.

This is your new Cube guys...

This seems to effectively fill the gap between the iMac, which comes with its own display, and the $2000.00 + display tower dillemma. People who simply want some expandability and a not-built-in monitor now have a nice option.

I think these'll sell, although it is a tad larger than a Cube.

Apple makes Power Mac G5 more affordable as it reincarnates the single 1.8GHz configuration.

Apple Computer on Tuesday addedÂ*a 1.8 GHz single processor Power Mac G5 desktop to its 64-bit Power Mac G5 line priced at $1,499.

The new 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5 features 6.4GB per second of fast memory bandwidth, up to 4GB of total main memory, three PCI expansion slots, up to 500GB of internal Serial ATA mass storage and AGP 8X Pro graphics capabilities.

The 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5 comes with the NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra graphics card with dual display support,high-performance I/O with Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports, three USB 2.0 ports, optical digital audio input and output, analog audio input and output and a headphone jack. The system also supports 54 Mbps AirPort Extreme wireless networking and is Bluetooth ready for wireless connections to a host of Bluetooth-enabled peripherals.

Pricing & Availability
The new 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5 is available immediately through the company's online store and at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers in one standard configuration.

The new 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5, with a suggested retail price of $1,499 (US), includes:
1.8 GHz 64-bit PowerPC G5;
600 MHz front-side bus;
256MB 400 MHz DDR SDRAM (4GB maximum);
80GB Serial ATA 7200 rpm hard drive;
AGP 8X Pro graphics slot;
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB DDR SDRAM;
3 PCI slots (64-bit, 33 MHz); and
8x SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW).

Whoah! I had to check this on Apple's site to make certain it was correct, but did anyone else notice the 600MHz bus?

Does this machine really belong with the rest of the PowerMac line with it's iMac-esque multiplier?

I wonder what the reasons were for going with a 3:1 vs. a 2:1 in this new model? It only makes the $500 bump for the DP1.8 all that more appealing, IMHO.

-John

Edit: Reading through previous posts, it seems I wasn't the only one who noticed! :-)