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hi I'm rich Bradford CNET today we're gonna take a look at Apple's new editors choice winning iMac so this is the 27-inch version of Apple's new iMac and this model particular is the 1999 version with a few upgraded specs it comes to 2,600 bucks with all the upgrades but we find it's definitely worth it considering how fast it is and how good the screen looks now one of the first things Apple mentioned about the new iMac is its new thin design so from that angle you can see this bezel here it's about five millimeters thick and it really looks like this is a revolutionary new display now we keep going here and you'll see it's actually not quite as thin as Apple made it out to be this is big bulge here in the back and from front to back the moderate is actually about two and a half inches thick now it's certainly not a behemoth but it's also not the sort of razor thin display that Apple put out there and of course a stand up feature with a 27-inch iMac is it's a giant gorgeous display so this is 27-inch screen and it's 2560 by 1440 pixels resolution that puts it among the ranks of the highest resolution apples also really tried to minimize the reflections you get from the glossy bezel apples had some pretty good success here it's not entirely a reflection free but it's also better than some of the other high of 27 inches we've seen now behind all those good looks is the fastest all-in-one that we've tested so it has a 3.4 gig Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 CPU a 2 gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 X and mobile graphics chip eight gigs of ram and what Apple calls its fusion hard drive in this case that's a one terabyte standard mechanical hard drive as well as a 128 gig solid state drive merged into a single drive volume so those are all very high-end components and make this the fastest all-in-one that we've ever tested there's four USB ports here and that's actually USB 3 which is a nice upgrade from the previous USB 2 iMac here you've got a couple Thunderbolt ports we've seen those before and finally there's an Ethernet jack so to get at the memory you have to remove the power cable and you can see in the socket here there's a little button and the idea is you push that button and this panel comes down and that's where the memory sits problem is that button is really hard to push your finger or mine at least this too big to get in there to push it as far as it needs to go so I've been using a pen kind of drive the button up in there and eventually the panel pops off just enough you can get your finger in and pull it off now rounding out the features on the new iMac there's two microphone inputs up here the hard to see but they definitely improve voice fidelity when you're making calls now as I mentioned our iMac review unit comes with a lot of upgraded parts that puts its price pretty high up at about $2,600 it starts at 1800 bucks though so that makes this system really pretty competitive given that you still get the Core i5 CPU a standard terabyte hard drive as well as the big display now there are some points of inconvenience with this system the lack of a direct HDMI input and no optical drive means you have to jump through a few hoops if you want to use it for home entertainment but especially for serious users that need a high-resolution screen and all the performance you get with this system this is an easy recommendation so how much Brown this is Apple's new editors choice winning 27-inch