The New iMac: “deliciously fast” -
January 30th, 2006 in Apple, Hardware
”For some real fun some Saturday afternoon, set up an Intel iMac and its identical-looking predecessor side by side,” writes David Pogue for the New York Times. “Sit there with a stopwatch, perform the same software timing tests on each one, and keep score in a notebook…What you’ll discover is that the new iMac is deliciously fast when it’s running Intel-ready software.”
Apple announced first quarter financial results, with revenue of $5.75 billion and a net profit of $565 million, or $.65 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $3.49 billion and a net profit of $295 million, or $.35 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 27.2%, down from 28.5% a year ago. International sales accounted for 40% of revenue