The iMac G5 is the 3rd generation of iMacs, released in August 31, 2004 and is the last iMac to be powered by the PowerPC processor series. The all new design of the iMac G5 uses the same 17-inch and 20-inch widescreen LCD displays from the previous generation iMac, but the hardware is now mounted behind the LCD display panel. The back plate of the iMac can be removed to upgrade the RAM and Hard Drive. The iMac is housed in a white polycarbonate plastic. This makes the iMac G5 appear like a thickened LCD monitor.There were 3 major updates with the G5 series iMac. The initial release came standard with: 533Mhz PowerPC Processor, 256MB DDR SDRAM, 80GB Hard Drive, nVidia GeForce 4 MX Graphics and MAC OS X 10.3 “Panther” operating system. The second update of the iMac G5 included an Ambient Light Sensor and standard Bluetooth 2.0, the third and final update of the iMac included an iSight webcam.
The iMac G5 was available until January 10, 2006 for the 17-inch model and March 20, 2006 for the 20-inch model. The iMac G5 got replaced with a new series of Intel Processor powered iMacs.
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