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If you are involved in eLearning or in any educational institution, it will be informative to know that Apple is scrapping the eMac for a very affordable USD $899.00 17-inch iMac package.

The scrapping of the affordable eMac and replacing it with a bang-for-your-buck iMac package shows Apple's support for the next gen Web 2.0 applications especially with the iSight camera for distance learning and iLife '06 suite for recording music and creating webpages with Garage Band and iWeb respectively.

The educational package iMac includes the following specs:

• 17-inch widescreen LCD display
• 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor
• 512MB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable to 2GB
• 24x Combo drive
• Intel GMA 950 graphics
• built-in iSight video camera
• built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking
• 80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 7200 rpm
• mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately)
• built-in stereo speakers and microphone
• Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard.

Courtesy of Juan of The AfterMac via Yahoo! News.