In summer 2000, the iMac DV was refreshed with faster graphics and the Apple Pro Keyboard and Mouse. It was offered in Indigo and Ruby colors. The new sub-$1000 iMac did have to cut some corners so it was equipped with only a CD-ROM drive. A buyer would need to purchase an iMac DV+ or SE to find an iMac equipped with a DVD-ROM.

The iMac DV featured a 400 MHz PowerPC processor, 64 MB PC100 RAM, an 8 MB Rage 128 Pro video card, a 10 GB hard disk drive, a 24x CD-ROM drive and 56k modem. Standard ports included two USB ports, two Firewire 400 ports, 10/100 baseT ethernet, and optional Airport 802.11b card slot.

This machine was rescued from a destiny in the recycle bin. It features a stock configuration. It boots to the original Mac OS 9.0.4 install. Incidentally, a different free, cast-off, 400 MHz Indigo iMac DV found in a recycle bin was the machine that brought me back into the Apple fold in 2002. At the time, I had grown weary of a seven-year Microsoft Windows purgatory and had fallen in love with Mac OS X 10.2.