Apple has always had a customary model for school design, such as the previous Power Mac 5000 Series. Recently Apple has launched several new school-specific models. After the introduction of IMAC G5, Apple designed a dedicated IMAC G5 for the educational institution. Such special IMAC G5 and normal models use the 17-inch display, using the same processor and motherboard configuration - 1.6GHz G5, 512KB level cache and 533MHz front-end bus, also have 256MB of RAM. However, it uses a lower-end graphics card to change the original 64MB of memory NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 Ultra to 32MB shared NVIDIA GeForce4 MX. The hard disk capacity is also reduced from 80GB to 40GB. In addition, this machine has no optical drive. This model is sold to the school at a price lower than the $ 100 US $ 100. Apple also designed two special models that were evolved from EMAC, and both models did not have built-in modem. One of them is equipped with an optical drive, and the other is not. The price of these two models is less than $ 100 and $ 150 than ordinary EMAC. Some people may worry that these school special models will affect normal use because of certain configurations, it is actually not necessarily. Because most classrooms or laboratory will not use Modem. Both the general school's local area network can provide services for storage and transfer files, so the optical drive can be omitted, and the 40GB hard disk capacity is also available. In addition, most of the classrooms or laboratory used software do not have special requirements for graphics cards, and reduce the graphics card configuration does not affect the display. So, although the above school special models may not be very suitable for home users, it is very suitable for schools that are more tensions to budget and need to upgrade the equipment.
