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hi I'm rich brown senior editor for CNET today we're gonna take a look at Apple's new 21 and a half inch iMac this is the entry-level iMac from Apple's newly redesigned all in one line it costs $12.99 and it has the 21 and a half inch screen a core i5 CPU from Intel eight gigs of RAM and a one terabyte standard hard drive so over the most interesting thing about this eye Mecca is its new design you can see here from the front it actually looks like the old design but when you turn it you can see it has a very thin edge here coming out to a rounded display here in the back now a lot the new design there's a few new features that are worth noting there's an anti-glare coating here in the screen there's also a second microphone here designed to help make audio a little bit better when you're doing video calling one negative about the new design is that you can't change the memory yourself anymore you used to be able to do that on the old iMac and you can do it on the new 27 inch version you just can't do it here in the 21 and a half model so in terms of its physical specs along with those new features you also get the same area of ports we've seen in previous IMAX there's an audio jack here for a headphone that also works for digital audio output there's also an SD card slot for USB 3 ports as well as a pair of Thunderbolt jacks for connecting monitors or other Thunderbolt capable devices finally there's an Ethernet jack and of course the system also has a tow 2.11 B G and N wireless now for the display it has a 1920 by 1080 resolution screen as well as an IPS panel now that means you can view the screen from pretty much any angle without getting distortions in color or other image quality defects and of course there's a previous IMAX it also comes with apples wireless mouse and keyboard set so in terms of its competition this is a pretty fast computer relative to Windows PCs in the same price range now if you're looking at Windows 8 on one's in the same price range you get larger screens as well as more inputs including HDMI in and out which actually is pretty nice it'd be great if this system had HDMI inputs because then you could connect a cable box or a game console and use it as sort of a standalone entertainment center now they're definitely people out there that you either need or one OS 10 or might just like the look of this iMac but for those of you that are OS agnostic and let the most Hardware for your buck I would probably recommend looking at the windows side of the aisle sorry much Brown this is Apple's new 21 and a half inch iMac