It is the first Macintosh announcement from Apple since yesterday's
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.