PRESS RELEASE 29 April 2002

Apple Unveils New eMac for Education

17-Inch Flat CRT eMac Most Affordable G4 System Ever

CUPERTINO, California - April 29th, 2002
Apple today unveiled the eMac, a new desktop line designed specifically for education, featuring a stunning 17-inch flat CRT and a powerful 700MHz PowerPC G4 processor in a remarkably compact design that is 8mm less deep than the original 15-inch iMac. The most affordable PowerPC G4 system ever, the new eMac line starts at just £729 (ex VAT).
“Our education customers asked us to design a desktop computer specifically for them”, said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. “The new eMac features a 17-inch flat CRT and a powerful G4 processor, while preserving the all-in-one compact enclosure that educators love”.
Designed for today's digital classroom, the new eMac incorporates a 17-inch flat CRT, yet is actually 8mm less deep than the original iMac with its15-inch CRT, an ideal size for both classrooms and computer labs. The17-inch flat CRT display has screen resolutions up to 1280-by-960 pixels in24-bit colour. All eMacs include Apple's award-winning suite of digitallifestyle software, including iPhoto for managing and sharing digitalphotographs, iMovie 2 for creating digital movies and iTunes 2 for creatinga digital music library.
With five USB ports and two FireWire ports, eMac provides easy plug-and-playconnections to popular peripherals such as digital video camcorders, digitalstill cameras, printers and scanners. The eMac line includes a choice of atray-loading CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo drive for watching DVDs andburning CDs.
Additional eMac features include:
  • 40GB ATA Hard Drive;
  • built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet;
  • a 56K V.90 modem (some models);
  • support for optional AirPort (IEEE 802.11) wireless networking;
  • a total viewable image size of 16 inches on the 17-inch flat CRT;
  • an audio-in port, headphone jack, and integrated 16-watt digitalamplifier and stereo speakers for great stereo sound;
  • NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 3D AGP 2X graphics with 32MB of Double Date Rate (DDR)video memory for outstanding performance;
  • an incredible software bundle offering AppleWorks, QuickTime, Mac OS XMail, Microsoft Internet Explorer, WorldBook Mac OS X Edition, TopCalculette and Acrobat Reader;
  • Mac OS X version 10.1.4, Mac OS 9.2.2; and
  • Apple's optical Pro Mouse and full-size Apple Pro Keyboard.

Pricing & Availability:
The new eMac will be available to education customers in the UK in Junethrough the Apple Store for Education and Apple Education Agents.
The eMac with suggested selling price of £729 (ex VAT) includes:
  • 700MHz PowerPC G4 processor;
  • 128MB SDRAM;
  • CD-ROM optical drive; and
  • 40GB ATA Hard Drive.

The eMac with suggested selling price of £879 (ex VAT) includes:
  • 700MHz PowerPC G4 processor;
  • 128MB SDRAM;
  • CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo optical drive;
  • 40GB ATA Hard Drive; and
  • 56K V.90 modem.

For further details, please visit www.apple.com/uk/education/emac/.
Press Contacts:
Apple UK and Ireland Public Relations
Email: media.uk@apple.com
Phone: (020) 8218 1440
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