Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9844LL/A (2.0 GHz PowerPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive)

by Apple

Product Details

• Item Weight: 18.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 36 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006PK8IS
• Item model number: M9844LL/A
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 3, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Welcome to the future.
What if you could fit your whole life -- all your music, all your photos, all your movies, all your email -- in a computer as fun and useful as an iPod? You can, with the 17- or 20-inch widescreen iMac G5. The entire computer, including G5-based logic board, slot-loading optical drive, hard disk, speakers and power supply, dwells inside the enchanting display.

The new iMac G5 includes power supply, stereo speakers, and a slot-loading SuperDrive enclosed within the widescreen flat-panel display.

The Display is the Computer Apple designers removed the extraneous, miniaturized the necessary, souped up the performance and concealed the result in immaculate perfection. The iMac G5 hangs suspended from a graceful anodized aluminum stand and its widescreen display lets you retouch photos and surf the web while you chat with friends or scan email -- wirelessly, thanks to built-in AirPort technology -- and see everything at the same time. In fact, the 1680 x 1050 pixel resolution 20-inch display can show more than two full pages side by side. That's 36% more screen area than the 17-inch, at 1440 x 900 pixels. Technology Democratized The iMac G5 brings the same innovative system architecture in Apple professional desktops to the home. The G5 processor makes everything zippier -- connecting to email or the web, creating movies, songs and DVDs, arranging photos or playing music. Choose the 2.0 GHz G5 processor, in this 17-inch or 20-inch model, that's ready to run modern 64-bit applications under Mac OS X Tiger: the world's most advanced, stable and secure operating system. What's more, the G5 speeds up Mac OS X and all the other included software, such as iLife '05, Quicken 2005 and World Book.

All-in-One Ease
iMac G5 tucks away modern amenities, such as a 8x SuperDrive on this 17-inch and 20-inch models, inside its two-inch thin body. Burn DVD slideshows of vacation photos or send friends a DVD with a special movie for the holidays. Back up your iTunes collection or make a mix CD for that special someone. Naturally, you can pop in your DVD movies and watch them in 16:10 widescreen letterbox format on the gorgeous LCD display. Delight in pristine audio from fully integrated stereo speakers. Cleverly pointed down, they bounce sound waves off your desk, counter or table into your ears.

A Place for Everything Remove the back cover on the iMac G5, and you'll discover that perfect order is not just a requirement, but also candy to the eye. Thoughtful touches abound its dense layout, since Apple engineers considered the placement of every bit of technology -- several times. Inside, you'll find enough modern technology to make even nerds drool. That's a 1.8 GHz G5 processor, 600 MHz frontside bus, 256 MB DDR SDRAM running at 400 MHz and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64 MB graphics memory. So you'll be able to play Worlds of Warcraft, Doom III and other fantastic entertainment. Power to Spare What's more, the thin enclosure even holds the power supply, so you won't need to accommodate a huge power brick. Obsessed by the drive to offer you the best personal computer, Apple engineers strove to add fit and finish in every detail, down to the power switch located on the back panel. When you remove the panel, the button goes with it. But with the case closed, the button makes contact with the power supply.

Quieter than a whisper, the iMac G5 measures less than 25dB when idle and a slit in the back of the case allows heat to rise out the top

 

Ports include: Two FireWire 400 ports, three USB 2.0 ports, two USB 1.1 ports, VGA output, S-video and composite video output.

Stay Connected Of course the iMac G5 offers all the right ports to connect to your universe with ease. Starting with the new headphone jack that's also a mini-optical plug. So you can watch DVDs and listen to them in 5.1 surround sound. You'll also find a passel of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 connectors for your camera, camcorder or gamepad. Or if you want to connect your iMac to your TV or a digital projector, the mini-VGA port gives you the option. The line in jack lets you record an electric guitar into GarageBand. iMac offers built-in Gigabit Ethernet for wired networking as well as a modem for dial-up Internet and faxing. Extreme Graphics A sizzling new graphics card and next-generation high-bandwidth architecture kick 3D games and graphics into high gear, with improved frame rates over the previous iMac G5 in Halo. Every new iMac G5 comes standard with AGP 8x graphics support and the ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card with 128 MB of dedicated video memory for higher performance graphics and effects -- ideal for next-generation games. All models deliver over a billion textured pixels per second and high-precision cinematic shaders to generate the most lifelike characters. With Quartz Extreme, the graphics processors take over transform and lighting calculation functions from the CPU, freeing the G5 processor to perform essential system tasks faster than ever before.

Go Wireless
Better yet, eliminate the desktop clutter of unnecessary cables with wireless connections to the Internet, your keyboard, mouse or cell phone. The AirPort Extreme Card already installed on your iMac gives you the freedom of wireless networking from anywhere in your home or dorm -- up to 150 feet from an AirPort Extreme Base Station. Or try AirPort Express with AirTunes to stream your music to your stereo and send documents to your printer.

Your iMac G5 also comes standard with an internal Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) module to wirelessly access many devices that previously required cables. That means you can get an Apple Wireless Keyboard or Mouse to control your iMac from across the room, or sync your cell phone address book while your phone is in your purse, 30 feet away. Impress your friends, confound your enemies -- wireless only looks like magic.

Meet a Beauty with Brains
Every single stunning, flat-panel widescreen iMac G5 comes standard with Mac OS X Tiger, the world's most advanced operating system. Instantly find what you're looking for. Get information with a single click. Mac OS X Tiger delivers more than 200 new features which make it easier than ever to find, access and enjoy everything on your iMac G5.

Enjoy iLife '05
Make a movie of baby's first steps, graduation or wedding, instantly. Just plug in your camcorder and iMovie HD does the rest. Share it with the family via email, the web or DVD with iDVD.(1) Or play it on your HDTV. Download songs from the iTunes Music Store. Make a mix playlist for your next house party or let iTunes deejay by using the Party Shuffle feature. Design your own iPhoto coffee-table book using the photos from your parents' 25th wedding anniversary. Email photos of your graduation to the entire family. Record a song for that special someone in your life -- then burn it to an audio CD as a gift. Play your latest guitar riffs at a party, backed by GarageBand and your Mac. Create a soundtrack for your iPhoto slideshow or iMovie project. Post your iMix of love songs on the iTunes Music Store for the world to enjoy. Back up an entire season of soccer photos on CD or DVD.

Product Description

Includes: Apple Keyboard, Apple Mouse, modem cable, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, iLife '05, iSync, iCal, Sherlock, Quicken 2005 for Macintosh, 2005 World Book Multimedia Reference Suite, & more. Apple M9844LL/A iMac G5 Desktop Computer - Apple has updated one of the most uniquely designed computers available. Taking the all-in-one iMac design to the next level, this G5 desktop computer is a high-tech computer system inside a 17" widescreen LCD monitor! Without the bulky computer tower, you now have a sleeker and more modern looking desktop. The iMac G5 packs every piece of computing technology inside, but most notably it features a new 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 processor, and OS X Tiger operating system. Allowing you to be creative, get organized, and have fun with the latest applications for the Mac 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (expandable to 2GB) ATI Radeon 9600 AGP 8x graphics with 128MB of DDR SDRAM 160GB Serial ATA (SATA) HDD Slot-loading 8x SuperDrive - supports Double Layer DVD+R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, & CD-RW 17 (viewable) LCD 1440x900 Native Resolution Built-in 802.11g Wi-Fi Adapter Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) Module 56k Fax Modem Integrated Stereo Speakers Ports - 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Headphone/Optical Digital Audio Out, Audio Line-In, 2 FireWire 400, 3 USB 2.0, 2 USB 1.1, 2 VGA Out, S-Video, & 2 Composite Video Unit Weight - 18.5 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No longer a happy customer!!, September 2, 2005

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Nathan Andersen "film lover, philosophy profe... (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9844LL/A (2.0 GHz PowerPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive) (Personal Computers)

I had written a raving review about my iMac G5 several months ago. Then tonight it started burning and the power failed. After looking online for a while on my wife's PC, it turns out that the power system failing due to overheating is a fairly common problem with the new iMacs. I had been using the computer for several hours, editing video with Final Cut Express, but I noticed a strange smell that I didn't realize was coming from my computer, and a few minutes later it shut down completely and won't start up again. Several people online suggest that this is a design failure that Apple has been aware of, but won't fix unless you are still under warranty. Unfortunately Amazon will let me change my review, but not my rating, otherwise it would drop to one. My warm fuzzy apple feelings are dissipating.

UPDATE: Apple is aware of the problem, which affects the first version of the iMac G5, and was fixed for the more recent models. They will extend the repair plan for people like me who are no longer under warranty, but where the problem was due to a design flaw in the power system, that has since then been fixed. I'm feeling better now. The problem did not destroy my harddrive, and is now being fixed.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Machine, September 28, 2005

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Karina - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9844LL/A (2.0 GHz PowerPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive) (Personal Computers)

I absolutely love this computer. I bought it from the Apple Store in early July and could not be happier. In the three years before buying this computer I owned two laptops which spent more time being sent to HP's tech support (in all that time I never once encountered someone who spoke English fluently) than they did being used. I may never find out what Apple's tech support is like because this computer has no problems whatsoever.

I have the base model, which does not include the superdrive. The iLife suite covers all your basic needs with programs that work well, a big improvement over the junk which tends to come on windows.

Another hugely useful feature is dashboard. Go on the widgets page on [...] to see the many useful widgets you can download and access by hitting F12. The function keys are generally well used by Apple. F9 shows you all your open windows, F10 shows you all the windows open in a particular application and F11 minimizes all the windows.

Another thing that I love is that basically anything can be simply plugged in and used. You don't usually need to install anything. This made the switch much faster, since I didn't have to reinstall programs for my digital camera, printer, etc. It also connected to my school's network instantly, whereas most PC users had many more troubles.

But the final reason I love my Mac is how pretty it is. It just looks great on my desk. When people see it, they compliment me on my nice moniter, and are always surprised when I tell them it's the entire computer.

Overall, I definitly recommend this computer.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Screamer!!, August 12, 2005

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S. S. RAY "Electron buyer" (Richfield, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9844LL/A (2.0 GHz PowerPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive) (Personal Computers)

This is a speed beast. I had upgraded RAM to 1 GB during time of purchase and man, it rocks!!

A small regret though, wished I had gone for the 20" model.