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Apple adds to Power Mac line

The company is offering a model previously available only outside the United States.

Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor
Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an editor at large at CNET News and a contributing reporter to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. His interest in things small began when living in Tokyo in a very small apartment for a very long time.
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Apple Computer (AAPL) is now offering a Macintosh model, the Power Macintosh 8600/250, that had been available only outside the United States.

It is the first Macintosh announcement from Apple since yesterday's Mac merger news that the company is buying the core operations of clone maker Power Computing.

The Power Macintosh 8600/250, with an estimated retail price of U.S. $3200, is part of Apple's new lineup of desktop computers for professional publishers, media/Internet authors, academics, and science and engineering professionals, the company said in a prepared statement.

The 8600/250 orginally debuted at Macworld Boston in early August.

Like the other new Power Macintosh 9600 and 8600 models, the Power Macintosh 8600/250 includes several performance improvements, such as a new PowerPC 604e processor with "Inline Cache" technology to boost the performance of the 604e, Apple's new Mac OS 8 operating system, a 24X CD-ROM drive, and a 4GB hard drive.

The Power Macintosh 8600/250 also has 32MB of memory standard.

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