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Article: 20-inch iMac G4: larger display makes for more fun--and more work.(Reviews)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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The new iMac G4, with its 20-inch LCD monitor, is a wonder to behold. Despite its consumer-level status, it's a mighty Mac. For $2,199, you get the same computer as the 17-inch iMac G4 (VERY GOOD 1/2; Reviews in Brief, January 2004) but with a very large, 20-inch screen, for which you pay the additional $400.
Like the 17-inch iMac G4, this Mac has a 1.25 GHz G4 processor, 256MB of RAM (expandable to 1GB), an 80GB hard drive, and a 4X SuperDrive (which writes both DVDs and CDs). Even the ports--three USB 2.0, two FireWire 400, a VGA output, and an S-Video output, to name a few--are identical. Its speed scores are also identical, within a margin of error, to those ...