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what's going on guys this is Jonathan with tle you guys saw the unboxing to the new 27-inch core i5 iMac that was just released this week so I want to bring you guys the full review so we're gonna run through the specs the features the pricing talked about turbo boost and really you guys know is it worth the money and is it also worth upgrading if you guys have the previous model that was just released about a year ago so let's go ahead and jump right into the review the first thing I want to talk about in this review is the screen it comes in at 27 inches is an IPS display so this thing looks amazing the resolution is 2560 by 1440 so it is a little bit different if you're coming from a 1920 by 1080 or 1200 monitor but once you get used to this thing looks nuts and it's really of a monster of a display so movies look good gaming if you're editing video you have a huge amount of screen real estate Final Cut it Photoshop anything like that you take advantage it from the display so in the Box now it comes standard with the wireless Apple keyboard and the wireless Magic Mouse you don't have to pay extra for this this comes standard as we flip it over you guys can see there's a nice brushed aluminum on the whole back of the iMac so a front and back aesthetically this thing looks fantastic now we have the power button as we move down we get the audio out the audio in four USB 2.0 ports for one firewire 800 a mini DisplayPort and also an Ethernet port to hook up to the Internet now this does have built-in Wi-Fi but just in case if you needed to hook it up wired now you also get built in the 17 watt stereo speakers these things actually sound pretty good and there's actually a lot of bass on them for being built-in speakers so there's a built-in microphone you know your built-in iSight for iChat and things like that now the mini DisplayPort actually supports in and out so if you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro you can actually hook that up to your iMac if you want a kind of a dual CPU configuration taking a look at the side you guys can see how thin this is so it's pretty amazing how much they can fit in there we get an SD card slot as well as the Apple super drive now as we move to the internals of this iMac we get a Core i5 Intel processor the base clock speed is 2.8 gigahertz now this turbo boosts up to 3.3 so what that means if you're using Final Cut after-effects anything that requires a really heavy intensive CPU power this will boost when you need it so if you're just doing web browsing it's gonna also be smart about it and not about kicking the boots at the same time so very cool feature with the iMac very helpful if you're doing some very intensive programs here's a quick little Geekbench benchmark for you guys you can see the scores very high now I'm gonna do a lot more benchmarks and more in-depth ones when I compared to the i7 but I wanted to give you guys a little taste of performance and like I said the i-5 is a great CPU and it's really gonna tear things up as far as performance goes alright so at the end of the day you're gonna be spending about 2 grand on this now if you've been waiting for a while if you're looking to upgrade maybe from a Core 2 Duo iMac this is a great Buy now if you just picked one of the older i-5 iMacs that just came out a year ago I wouldn't sweat it too much it's not worth throwing your old life on eBay and picking one of these new ones up you get a slight increase in speed and a little bit of bump in the graphics card the memory is slightly faster but it's gonna be nothing too mind-blowing like I said it's about upgrading so overall I definitely say this machine is worth the money the screen is fantastic 27 inches is absolutely ridiculous for watching movies kind of gives you that IMAX feel where you're just looking at the screen kind of in awe so it's fast you can actually play gaming very wellness you got a gig of VRAM with the ATI card so for those of you kind of looking for an all-in-one solution like it's not gonna be a PC so if there's any PC guys watch them knock I'm not saying it's the be-all end-all gaming machine it's not gonna beat your custom PC for gaming but for those of you who want a huge screen at a reasonable price you ain't got a custom build it for surfing the web I'm editing videos it's a great machine so all in all I can't really say enough about this I'm very impressed with it - granted it's a little bit pricey but for what you get in there it's definitely worth the money I definitely recommend it to anybody looking to pick one of these up so I hope you guys enjoyed this review I hope you guys I helped you guys a little bit with this not always I will catch you next time you