17-inch iMac still avaiable for educational institutions
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 22, 2007 at 2:25pm
Apple will keep the 17-inch iMac remain available for order and purchase by educational institutions, according to an AppleInsider report.
The story says that in a note to channel partners this week, Apple said that its 17-inch iMac will remain available for educational institutions indefinitely. Only authorized schools and universities may purchase the US$899, which means students and teachers can only use educational discounts on the 20- and 24-inch versions.
The 17-inch educational iMac remains unchanged from last year and will continue pack a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2MB shared L2 cache, 512MB memory, 160GB Serial ATA hard drive, 24x Combo drive, and an Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 memory. It will continue to have the white case, not the aluminum-and-glass chassis of the latest revamp.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
