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Apple has pared the range down from four to three machines and made all the machines capable of booting into both Mac OS 9 and X. It has also changed certain aspects of the spec, dropping both FireWire 800 and the SuperDrive options.

The entry-level 'Fast' model has a single 1.25GHz processor with 1MB of L3 cache,

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256MB of DDR333 RAM, an 80GB hard drive, a DVD/CD-RW drive and ATI Radeon 9000 Pro graphics with 64MB of DDR video memory for £999, making it £150 cheaper than Apple's previous 'Fast' G4, and with a higher spec.

The 'Faster' machine has a single 1.25GHz processor with 1MB of L3 cache but the similarity ends there; instead you get 512MB of DDR333 RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a DVD-R/CD-RW drive and nVidia GeForce 4 graphics with 128 MB of DDR video memory, all for £1,489.

The top-of-the-range the 'Ultimate' model has dual 1.25GHz processors each with 2MB of L3 cache, 2GB of DDR333 RAM, two 160GB hard drives, a DVD-R/CD-RW drive and nVidia GeForce 4 graphics with 128MB of DDR video memory for £2,549.

Further details are available from the Apple Store.