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Steve Jobs enlightened the Mac world with a keynote address at MacWorld Tokyo 2001 yesterday. He covered new iMacs, the NVidia GeForce3, and some price cuts.
The new iMacs feature models ranging in base price from US$899-$1,499. On the low end, you get a 400MHz G3 chip, CD-ROM drive, and standard-looking case. If you’re willing to pay a bit more, the new iMacs at $1,199 and $1,499 now offer some interesting case designs, called “Flower Power” and “Blue Dalmation,” in addition to the Indigo and Graphite color schemes. Also in the more expensive models you get more memory, more hard drive space, a CD-RW drive, and G3 processors running at 500 or 600MHz. FireWire is now standard on all iMacs.
The big news for the Power Macs was the planned inclusion of GeForce3 (aka NV-20) video cards sometime in March. Jobs stated that the GeForce3 would be available first on the Mac as a US$600 option. The GeForce3 comes with a 200MHz core using 57 million transistors, 64 MB of DDR SDRAM running at 230MHz*2 (460MHz effective), and supports AGP 8x. Joining Jobs for the GeForce3 demo were NVidia’s Chief Scientist David Kirk and Id Software founder John Carmack. Carmack demonstrated Doom3 running on the GeForce3. The demonstration was a public first both for the Doom3 game engine and the GeForce3. Read more at The Register, and ShackNews has Doom3 screenshots.
As for the price cuts, the 22″ Apple Cinema Display LCD panel was reduced by US$1,000 to $2,999. The Mac Cube was cut $200 for the entry level version, from $1,499 to $1,299. Other demonstrations included version 1.1 of the iTunes digital music utility and the forthcoming Mac OS X.
Get video highlights at MacWorld, and read more at ZDNet.