Apple to launch updated low-spec iMac for students soon?

The latest word on Apple Street is that a new cut-down iMac is in the offing as part of the company's education scheme.

The rumoured iMac is said to rock a 3.1GHz dual-core processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, a 250GB hard drive and an AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor.

That's not much processing power or storage space compared to the current lowest-end consumer iMac, but debt-laden students and struggling university lecturers may be willing to sacrifice on spec for a cheap deal.

Bargain basement

Apple's last education iMac deals started at £880, so we'd be anticipating a similar kind of deal for these updated version - but with the quad-core iMac coming in at around £990, you'll only be saving around £100 for a severely reduced machine.

9to5Mac's anonymous source tips the new desktops as arriving later this month, citing 16 August as the scheduled 'soft launch' date.

Given that the new academic year will start in September in the UK, that timing makes sense to us.