Apple’s iMac announcement – India pricing and availability
Apple has priced the just-announced iMacs very aggressively in India. You still pay a slight premium over the US price, but unlike the iPods, it is a mere 8.2% in the worst case. Here is how the prices announced in India compare to what you’d spend in the US on the same machines:
| iMac | 21.5″ (MB950LL/A) | 21.5″ (MC413LL/A) | 27″ (MB952LL/A) | 27″ (MB953LL/A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ | 1,199 | 1,499 | 1,699 | 1,999 |
| Rs. | 64,900 | 79,900 | 89,900 | 106,900 |
| $➙Rs. | 59,950 | 74,950 | 84,950 | 99,950 |
| Delta | 4,950 | 4,950 | 4,950 | 6,950 |
| % | 8.26 | 6.60 | 5.83 | 6.95 |
Both 21.5″ iMacs sport a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and come with 4 GB RAM. The higher priced option (MC413LL) gets you a dedicated ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 256MB DD3 instead of the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. You also get a bigger hard-disk (1 TB instead of 500 GB).
The lower priced 27″ iMac (MB952LL/A) is basically the same machine as the higher priced 21.5″ iMac with a bigger screen. The higher priced 27″ option (MB953LL/A) gets you an Intel Core i5 quad-core processor and a better graphics adapter (ATI Radeon HD 4850 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory). The thing I really like about the 27″ machines is the fact that they now have a video input allowing you to use them as a external display.
The machines are expected to be available in 2 weeks’ time; except for the Core i5 iMac which might take till mid-end of Nov to arrive.
There is still no word on the pricing or availability of Core i7 variant – but then it is not something that Apple is selling as a ’standard’ option even in the US (you need to customize your machine to get it).