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The ever-busy Japanese have produced another series of photos of the iMac Core Duo’s innards. This one has good views of both sides of the motherboards, of the FireWire chip, and of the Airport and BlueTooth modules, as well as of the CPU turned over besides its socket.

A BusinessWeek article tries to estimate Apple’s margins on the new Mac. As expected, they conclude that the Intel CPU is over double the price of what Apple was probably paying for the G5 chip – but that this may be compensated, in part, by using stock Intel controller chips. In general, they agree with my estimate that current margins are slightly lower.

The Ars Technica review has some interesting commentary and benchmarks.

Felix Schwarz has measured power consumption on his 17″ iMac Core Duo; it ranges from 1.2W on standby to 61W while playing a DVD on full brightness. This contrasts with values of 2W and 115W for a 20″ iMac G5 (from MacInTouch); admittedly a larger and older model, still it looks like power consumption has gone down. Apple’s specs still show the same 180W “maximum” power draw of the previous model, though.