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so Apple just dropped a brand-new 21 inch 4k iMac and it's tempting as those pixels maybe these are five things you should know before picking one up what's up guys Jonathan here and the first thing you should know is that Apple just committed its second tech crime in the past month the first being the 16 gigabyte iPhone and the second being a 5400 rpm hard drive in the new 4k red the iMac now mechanical hard drive as a whole should die or at the very least ones you boot from 7200 rpm drives you could deal with but 5400 is like watching paint dry especially on a premium machine as far as how that affects performance it's going to slow down boot times loading applications and after just a few minutes with is some tasks were painfully slow on the positive though at least I have a retina beech bottle look at its what it boils down to at the very least you should opt for the fusion equipped model if you go into your Apple Store and they don't have it do not buy the base model make sure they order it order online whatever you do do not do 5400 rpm next up and the second thing you should know is how the display actually works for starters it's kind of a weird resolution which is 4096 by 23:04 which is just slightly larger than cinema 4k now I guarantee you someone out there will comment why would I want such a high resolution on a screen that small the text and the icons they're going to look like ants but this is how it works what Apple does is take all those pixels 9 point 4 million to be exact and for every pixel of real estate they cram 4 pixels in there which results in a super crispy vivid image so by default it's going to look like 2048 by 1152 so slightly more real estate than a 1080p screen you also have the option to scale to 23:04 by 1296 which is a little bit weird and then lastly 2560 by 1440 which is what you would see on most 27-inch monitors on top of that one of the improvements they made to the 27-inch retina iMac was the display itself so now there's a 25% wider color gamut and the same thing applies to this iMac here all in all if you think higher resolution screens are a waste of money or if you've never checked or not in person do yourself a favor because they look really good following that the third thing you should know is that the RAM is not user upgradeable you can do so only 27-inch iMac but with the 21 inch iMac you are locked down to with what you order so with that you can max this thing out with 16 gigabytes of RAM no 32 gigabyte option it's going to cost you 200 bucks so I really don't know what this kind of machine if that's worth it but if you wanted to up the RAM that option is there fourth up is the fact there is no dedicated graphics option whatsoever on the fork a 21 inch iMac yes I understand in a great graphics on the baseline model fine but if you wanted to max this thing out I would expect some sort of dedicated graphics especially on a high resolution screen following that that kind of leads me into my fifth point and that's the fact that I don't think the i7 is worth the upgrade over the i-5 right off the bat if you play the fusion drive that is sixteen hundred bucks if you pop on another two hundred for the CPU you're getting really close to twenty seven inch retina territory and in that case not only you're getting better performance you're getting dedicated graphic options and more importantly a bigger screen with more resolution so if you haven't noticed yet there's definitely a theme with this iMac yes get the fusion drive but save your money on everything else and if you want to upgrade it and max it out put that towards a 27-inch iMac you're going to get a much better bang for your buck aside from that hopefully enjoy the video and it saved you from a tragic 5400 rpm hard drive approaches if you're ready for the review and you want to see that make sure you go mariah carey hitting a high note on that like button if you guys have any questions definitely drop me a line down below I do try to reply to as many as possible or you can hit me up on Twitter and snapchat this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later