Product Spotlight: Apple iMac (27-inch)

Apple's new $1,999 iMac comes with a faster CPU and a new graphics card, helping this 27-inch all-in-one desktop stay as competitive in performance as it already was in screen size. Despite the still-frustrating absence of an HDMI port, we have no qualms recommending this system for work or play.

Product Spotlight: Apple iMac (27-inch) Hi I’m Rich Brown, Senior Editor for CNET.com. Here with Apple iMac this is the 27-inch high stand model. The question is, is this system still the best in it’s all one class? So Apple’s had its iMac brand for an overview as down as probably the longest running all in one system. Now pretty much every other Windows desktop vendor has on one system so there’s definitely some competition out there for the iMac. This is not the only on one on the market. There are probably two major reasons why we like this particular iMac better than all the other all in one’s out there. Most importantly is probably its screen, 27-inch display is the largest in its category. No other vendor offers a display that’s that big. The closest any other all in one vendor comes this 23 inches. So it’s smaller and has a lower resolution in this display. That makes us the best in its class and ideal for work, for gaming, for home entertainment, pretty much any computing task where you want a big display this iMac can handle it. And this big display doesn’t come cheap, system’s charge at 16.99. We actually recommend the 19.99 version to get the most performance to go along with the display. That model is faster than any other all in one you could find at the market. The best I like this iMac for some of the little things that includes. It comes as a wireless massive keyboard, it also has many display port on the back that lets you plug in external video devices. Now with that video input you can use the iMac as a secondary display if you want to connect say a laptop also with the red adaptor you can use the iMac with the cable box, a game console or other devices that makes this a pretty much self contained home entertainment hub. Now of course this system isn’t perfect. Some people don’t like the feel of the wireless massive keyboard. The mouse in particular has multi touch cribs takes some getting used to if you want to browse around. Also it’s a little bit angular, not as comfortable as some Windows based mouse out there. Apple also tends to be stubborn about certain features. People have longed hope for that Apple would add HDMI to make inputting external devices a little bit easier and also not Blu-ray mess system and a lot of all in one’s in its price rendered even that cost significantly less do have blue ray. So little definitely minor issues but overall this system has pretty much everything we look for in a high end desktop and the display and the performance will really make this system worth the price. So, I’m Rich Brown, this Apple’s 27-inch iMac.