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hey tech fans welcome back to tech o tomorrow we bring you all the tech all the time I'm your host and today we're gonna be taking a look at the 21.5 inch iMac you guys have all seen us do a couple of gaming reviews on this but now we're gonna actually bring you guys the full-blown performance and system review of this new product from Apple so with that said let's jump in check out the specs the scores and then hear my opinion at the end of the day so I can hear yours let's go really the heart and soul of the new iMac 21.5 inch is their IPS technology display it features a backlit 1920 by 1080 resolution and these models start out between twelve hundred and ninety nine dollars and go all the way up to twenty one forty nine maxed out now the model that we're looking at today is the $12.99 introductory model it features a 2.7 gigahertz quad core Intel Core i5 processor which features turbo boost technology up to 3.2 gigahertz it also has six megabytes of level 3 cache the memory on this system is 8 gigabytes which consists of 2 4 gigabyte sticks of 1600 megahertz ddr3 memory now the maximum memory you can get is up to 16 gigabytes but you have to have this done by Apple and pay their premium as far as storage goes the one were looking at today has a one terabyte 5400 rpm hard drive and that right there is where I feel that Apple has really really failed I mean come on 100 megabytes read and write speeds that's very very slow if you get the maxed out version you can get some of their newer technology as far as fusion goes and you get better reads but that's only through them and you're still gonna be paying that premium a few of the ways that having a 5400 rpm hard drive they're really gonna become the Achilles heel inner system our boot up times and when you're trying to access and use your programs now granted most people who aren't familiar with using SSD or fusion technology they're probably not going to notice this but me myself and for users out there who do notice this this is a very laggy thing and the thing is that Apple's already included this technology the fusion stuff on many of the other products so why they didn't include it in the base line I really don't know now as far as graphics go the unit that we're looking at today the $12.99 it features the GT 640 m with 512 megabytes of gddr5 memory now in the very expensive model you can get a 650 M but it still only has 512 megabytes of gddr5 memory not much of a real upgrade there whatsoever now as far as gaming goes you guys saw that we brought you Batman and you do get 40 frames per second so it's not like gaming is completely out the window and remember these are some of the latest first-person type games if you're playing other type games like wow world of warcraft you're playing Diablo command & Conquer I mean many many other style games this system will play them just fine and also keep in mind this is at a 1920 by 1080 resolution and that's pretty damn good for something that's all-in-one like I've said the Intel all-in-ones none of them currently featured discrete graphics all you get is the HD 4000 graphics these having discrete graphics actually make them superior in the all-in-one Department Plus you only need a single plug you plug in the power plug in the back everything else is Wireless it's pretty much simplicity itself now as far as the speakers go you're not even going to have to really go out and buy an external set of speakers with the audio that's on board the two stereo speakers that are built into the 21.5 inch do a really good job of bringing audio reproduction to you they sound much better than your common little cheap ones so that's the department that it's doing very well in now as far as connectivity goes there's dual microphone ports a headphone port we also see an SDXC card slot for USB 3 ports two thunderbolt ports and those Thunderbolt ports support may DisplayPort technology as well and it's all built into one pretty cool stuff there's also a Kensington lock for those that's important and you get your 10 100 1000 megabit per second Ethernet so that's pretty cool stuff as well now one thing to take note of though there is no CD drive at all built into it I don't know how many people are gonna go holy this matters to some people it does to me it actually is kind of a a little bit of a quirk of mine I would prefer to have a CD player built in it just makes it easier but with so many things being offset on two USB drives it's going to be pretty irrelevant pretty quick so probably you know within the next half a year CDs this will become a thing of the past and everything's gonna be USB driven and if it's not on a USB stick then obviously it's downloadable now as far as performance goes this thing's not quite as fast as my Mac Pro but it is creeping up on it and I'm sure when we see the new 27-inch iMac it's going to really put the damper on the Mac Pro so there you guys have it I mean this thing is really elegant looking if you walk into an office place and you see it sitting there it actually looks so nice you're just gonna look at it and be like ah cool it's not bulky it's very very thin there is no heat actually whatsoever coming off of it which i think is pretty incredible the previous generation ones always had heat coming out of it I never liked that these ones run very cool very quiet they look nice like I said they're coming to market about twelve hundred ninety nine dollars yes you can get a PC version for about eight hundred dollars but new you're not getting those separate graphics and you're not getting an IPS monitor at all and those things do matter at the end of the day quite a bit so really at the end of the day the only thing keeping me from giving this thing an editor's choice is that really shitty 5400 rpm if you're out there looking Apple change that freaking thing what are you doing for this price point the piece users are gonna put their foot right up your collective ass so change it up anyways hope you guys like this video folks if so hit that like button always make sure you're subscribed and we've got some really cool stuff coming up with the new 27-inch iMac so stay tuned to tech tomorrow alright folks also you guys know that it is the 12 days of Christmas and we've got something really cool now this is a product from the people over at cool master called choice now this thing is an extended battery pack that'll work with any phone doesn't matter what phone you have this will work with it so what exactly is it well basically you have your phone you're out and about and all of a sudden you find you've ran a battery charge you're like holy frak man what am I gonna do there's not a plug any where I can't plug it in my button get a charge so what am I gonna do well with this you just plug into this and you get extended battery life that you can make that emergency phone call so that's about it now what I want to do here folks is I want to hear your comments below and just tell me what is your favorite thing and what is your least favorite thing about the new 21.5 inch iMac I'll pick from the comments below because everybody has a phone and then I'll just pick from those and then I'll contact you and send this out to you this is really cool thing like I said if your phone's out of juice you're screwed so Merry Christmas and we'll see you back here tomorrow for more tech up tomorrow goodness