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what's going on YouTube this is Jonathan with TLD all the rumors are right the new iMacs have been updated so the video posted a couple days ago telling you to hold off I hope you guys did because they just updated these this morning so we finally got rid of the Core 2 Duo xor's or way out data they needed to get rid of those we let the core i3 s in the base model and also the base model 27-inch now we also have the same core i5 the quad cores and the i7 is good in the past but we got a speed bump jumping up I believe from the 2.66 on the core i5 that's jumping up to 2.8 gigahertz with the turbo boost of 3.3 3 gigahertz and now the i7 which was 2.8 is now standard at 2.93 with turbo boost up to 3.2 gigahertz now all these quad cores they technically the the OS sees them as eight core so that's called hyper 30 and so there even is even though there is a quad core there's two threads per core so you see it as an eight core on your computer the i3 doesn't do that but it's a huge step up from the corpse you do off so let's go ahead and run out the specs you guys can see I got Apple's website open right now something kind of gave you guys a rundown one interesting thing is it looks like they actually got rid of the Nvidia graphics card and it's all ATI even from the base model up to the high end I'm really excited actually for the core i7 we're getting a 57 50 in there was a gig of video memory which is fantastic and really it's a long needed update for the video card so not only for you guys rendering video after effects and everything like that but you'll be able to do some really decent gaming on this as far as a 27-inch model goes that 5750 is gonna kind of tear things up so one of you guys through it right now talks about the cores like I mentioned you do get eight cores not physical four physical and then for virtual cores so it's gonna see it as a eight core let's go ahead and run over the specs so starting out you get the 21 and a half inch comes in at 1199 at 3.6 gigahertz core i3 now you get a 1920 by 1080 resolution so we're getting a 16 by 9 aspect ratio as opposed to the 16 by 10 come standard with 4 gigs of memory now they did bump up the memory speed to 1333 which is going to give you a nice little speed bump that comes with stock with the 4670 ATR rating card so it's not the best in the world but I'm not 21 inch monitor it's gonna do the job fantastic so bumping up to the next level we get a 3.2 there Hertz new your Hertz I 3 looks like we get a bump in the 5670 graphics card so even though the speed bump isn't that great right there I'd say that's definitely worth it as far as the graphics card if you're looking to do any gaming as we go up the ladder we get the same configuration but that jumps up to a 27-inch model same 5670 let me see if you can bump that up to a 57 50 and yeah it looks like you can so for the 27-inch model I definitely say upgrading that to the 57 50 especially with such a big screen and a resolution that would be worth it especially for games for movies for rendering and we get to the the mack daddy of them all the 27-inch we get the quad-core models so that it starts at 2.8 gigahertz with the core i5 has a resolution of 2560 by 1440 so that thing is a monster of a resolution we get a terabyte hard drive as a stock configuration a lot I really like about these is you can completely customize it and you've got some really cool options on the high end quad core iMac so like I said I 5 base model at $19.99 for 200 bucks more you get the i7 and honestly talking about the i-5 and the i7 the i-5 kind of seems like a little bit bit better bang for the butt buck you get a lower initial clock speed but the turbo boost is a little bit higher and I don't know how much that point 13 gigahertz is gonna matter in terms of real-world difference but it'll be interesting to compare the two and get some benchmarks and we'll have to see how that pans out so you get stock four gigs around you can configure it up to 16 that's gonna cost a thousand I would wait and see on that before ordering it straight from Apple usually Oh WC has it for cheaper and it's really simple to install these on your yourself doing a third party now we get to the hard drive configurations this looks really interesting to me you can actually configure with a terabyte hard drive up to two terabytes actually at an SSD so two drives in the iMac I don't know as far as changing them yourselves or upgrading that we'll have to wait till they do to teardown see how it works with that but for you guys interested in picking up a real high-end iMac at 256 gigabyte SSD as your boot drive with your terabyte hard drive as a scratch disk is going to be kind of an insane setup so looks like eight gigs i7 and a 256 gigabyte SSD with the terabyte will kind of be the all-in-one set up with the iMac so I'm pretty interested I actually ordered an i-5 for me my buddy we have a music channel so we do all of our music editing we've been doing it on a 2008 Mac Pro so we actually going to throw that on ebay but we actually ordered an i-5 so that should be coming any day now so you guys can expect the unboxing and the review with that but I wanted to give you guys an update of the iMac so stay tuned for that unboxing the review and we'll catch you guys later you