One of the things I like to see — especially as an Apple shareholder — is Steve Jobs sauntering around a stage talking up their new products. Today Mr. Jobs is showing off some more powerful iMacs starting at $1,199 for the 20″ model all the way up to $1799 for the 24″ at Apple’s summer Mac product press conference.

Gerald shares some live links to the Apple media event, in case you get this in time, although I found the unlisted one from AOL/Engadget to be the fastest loading.

See a complaint about no HDMI connection on the new iMacs in the comments area and no DVI connectivity either (?), but they are including a new wireless keyboard, and both Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 slots.

The new iMovie ‘08 software will support HD camera footage from the newer AVCHD camcorders. We’ve been watching the prices on the HD camcorders. Still a bit out of reach, but it’s on the list of things we’d like to buy. We won’t buy another camcorder that doesn’t have a hard drive. Our last camcorder with tape was pretty much a bust. Good to see Apple offering software supporting HD cameras. The new iMovie wil also encode and send to YouTube at a click. Nice option.

Speaking of wish list items, the iMac is on my list too. I’d like to get one with Leopard which still isn’t released yet. I wonder how many others will wait to buy a new iMac with Leopard?

No word as of this writing on the state of the Mac Mini, although it was shown in one of their ads.

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