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what's good Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple there's a new iMac kind of and more iOS device rumors so let's get to it and Apple released a new iMac this week but it's not a speed refresh for the entire line like we're expecting instead it's an entry-level 21.5 inch iMac with the starting price of 1099 the price sounds nice and you have the option to get a fusion drive on this model but tear downs show there's no expandable memory option because it's soldered onto the motherboard no bueno now Geekbench speed benchmark tests show that it performs pretty much the same in its single core test but it was significantly worse in its multi-core tests with the score of 54:35 the previous 21 inch iMac in a score of 90 204 now maybe it's because they're using an ultra-low voltage 1.4 gigahertz dual core i5 processor the same one used in a MacBook Air so even if you're saving $200 you're not getting desktop level performance you're getting a 21.5 inch MacBook Air I'm sorry Apple biters I love the iMac line but do not do this I'll ride in phone use Amazon released their first smartphone called the fire phone with its 3d like dynamic perspective interface that looks cool and its ability to add almost anything you see or hear to your Amazon card now I don't expect this phone to be huge just yet but keep your eyes on what they're doing because they have the second-best media ecosystem behind Apple's an t-mobile is offering a new plan in partnership with the big a that will allow you to test run an iPhone 5s or the latest future phone on their carrier for seven days at no cost with unlimited data use in an attempt to win you over if you like their coverage service it's the first of its kind they're calling it 7 nightstand and they're also starting a new plan where any music you stream from the top services like Pandora iHeartRadio and even iTunes radio will not count against your data cap at all now I never thought of it before but if they get the iPhone 6 I'm gonna take them up on this offer and see how it works for me in San Francisco all right Apple has seeded the latest updates for OS 10 Yosemite and the second iOS 8 beta alongside the new Apple TV OS beta as well Apple still hasn't made OS 10s dark mode as an available setting yet but you can get a glimpse of it here thanks to Hamza stood with this terminal command it's not really even fully complete yet so just look at these images instead or do this at your own risk and yes there's also a terminal command to undo this now the latest Apple TV also looks to get some iOS 8 features with iCloud family sharing it's not functional yet but we can expect users will be able to log in with a single account and access music movies and photos from other devices on the same family sharing account it also looks like the Apple TV will be able to integrate with Apple's handoff feature on some level after users running the latest betas are seeing a notification like this appearing on their Macs now there are no direct references but one possibility is that if you're watching iTunes content instead of throwing to your Apple TV via airplay when you come home it would automatically be synced from that point from the cloud for you to continue watching your movie again it's all speculation and we'll just have to see how this evolves in iOS device rumors not many new rumoured details but a couple interesting nuggets from the economic Daily News that may or may not be true like others they believe the iWatch will be introduced at the end of q3 2014 and according to them the iWatch is expected to use an OLED display but prototypes are still having power issues they also claim the rumored 4.7 inch iPhone 6 we use Corning's Gorilla Glass for the display while the larger 5.5 inch iPhone will sport the sapphire crystal screen but is having low yields due to production issues but overall rumours are still split over if this sapphire display will be for all new iPhone models or just the larger screen one and details inside the latest Xcode and iOS 8 reveal the next gen iPhone could include a new sensor a barometer now a barometer sensor is commonly used for a measuring altitude and can be found in the Galaxy Nexus but it could be more important for more active lifestyle users like hikers bike riders or aspiring mile-high club members who want accurate altitude information now barometers can also measure temperature and other weather information but having a dedicated chip would provide instant data and could also aid their compass application than working on all right guys that's gonna do for this week's show send us your emails to the Apple bita cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks so much for watching and we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple