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I'm Dan Akron and here we are with the latest version of apple's imac all-in-one desktop this of course looks just like the really radically revamped version that Apple introduced last year and it is the same on the outside there are a lot of big changes inside but let's start with the actual body when we first saw this back in 2012 everyone said Wow look how razor thin it is and at first glance it does look almost as thin as maybe an ipad now you turn it around still looks very thin then you realized it sort of bowled out in the center here that's where all the components are but still very slim and very bulk free for a big high powered 27-inch all-in-one of course you get a little bit of flexibility with the screen you go up like this you go back down like this but that's really about it this is not one of the new generation of all in ones that either let's say has a touchscreen or has an internal battery so you can actually lift the screen off and use it like a mega tablet that's a that's a growing field but Apple is not on board with that yet well they are on board with however is an update to Intel's latest generation of core i series processors otherwise known as has well that gives you some improved performance in things with batteries it gives you a great battery life we don't have to worry about that here obviously you also get 80 to 911 AC wireless that's faster Wi-Fi speeds if you have a router that also supports that faster new standard we have the latest generation of nvidia geforce 700 series graphics cards that's great if your Mac gamer it's still kind of a growing area being a Mac gamer but things a lot better than they were even a couple of years ago and if you have a flash memory module inside your imac you get a faster PCIe connected flash module whether you're doing an SSD hard drive alone you can actually get those up to one terabyte of SSD although that's very expensive or you can get a fusion drive which is what we have here which is a one terabyte platter hard drive with 128 gig SSD all combined together to give you a lot of storage but still really good speed now if you have last year's version of the imac i'm not going to lie there's really no reason to upgrade the experience is very similar but if you're about getting an imac maybe have one that's a couple years old at least now you can get one that has all the up-to-date components in it and you'll be future-proof at least until the next generation of intel and nvidia stuff comes out sometime in 2014 i'm dan ackerman and that is the 2013 27-inch iMac