Apple iMac 20 Inches
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Apple iMac (21.5-inch, 3.06Hz Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce 9400M, Fall 2009)
We awarded Apple an Editors' Choice for its new $1,699 iMac, largely because its 27-inch screen dwarfs its competition in that price range. So what to make of Apple's new lower-end iMac? At $1,199, its 21.5-inch screen is hardly the size leader for its price, and without a touch screen or a Blu-ray drive, it's missing some of the features common to midrange Windows all-in-ones. Fortunately, Apple hasn't cast its most affordable iMac as a home entertainment hub. This is a computer, and a fast one. If screen size or digital entertainment are priorities we'd look elsewhere, but for anyone looking for a productivity-oriented all-in-one at a reasonable price, we recommend the iMac without hesitation. Acer's Aspire Z5610 illustrates the iMac's screen size value challenge. Acer's Windows 7-based all-in-one has a 23-inch, 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution screen, and currently sells for $899. The Acer has many shortcomings next to the iMac, including its design and comparatively slow performance, but because consumers tend to equate bigger with better, the iMac's 21.5-inch display feels like a calculated risk by Apple.
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Terrific general performance, but basic graphics. iMac diehards might consider paying $300 extra for an entry-level 24-inch iMac. The iMac models released in early 2009 are the third generation of the aluminum iMac, and the all-in-one design hasn't changed much since its introduction in 2007. The grey bezel, the black Apple logos front and back, the aluminum stand, the matte-black plastic rear...it's all there, including the big glossy screen--much to the chagrin of antiglare proponents. And you get no antiglare option, either. Apple offers four standard configurations of the iMac: three 24-inch models (1920 by 1200 resolution), and this 20-inch version (1680 by 1050 resolution), which costs $1199 (as of 7/2/09). In our tests using Boot Camp and Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit, the 20-inch iMac ranked as the second-fastest all-in-one PC we've seen, beaten only by the high-end 24-inch iMac we also recently tested. The 24-inch iMac's 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo E8435 processor and 4GB of memory helped it lead the way with a result of 111 in WorldBench 6. The 20-inch iMac, equipped with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo E8135 chip and 2GB of DDR3-1066 memory, trailed closely behind with a score of 101.
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