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Sun, Oct 12, 2008 - 01:44 AM EDT — AAPL: 96.80 (+8.06, +9.08%) | NASDAQ: 1649.51 (+4.39, +0.27%)

PC Magazine reviews Apple’s new 24-inch iMac: Editor’s Choice, King of the all-in-ones

Friday, May 02, 2008 - 11:15 AM EDT

"The Apple iMac (24-inch Penryn) is the iconic all-in-one desktop that others try emulate. Its aluminum and glass face evoke the iPhone and iPod Touch, a look that works well," Joel Santo Domingo reports for PC Magazine.

"This newest iteration of iMac is powered by the new Intel 'Penryn' (45nm) Core 2 Duo E8235 processor, which offers lower energy usage and greater computing power than the 'Merom' chips in older iMacs. The extra power helps the iMac keep maintain its place in the vanguard of all-in-one PCs," Santo Domingo reports.

"Like all Macs, the iMac is bloatware free. Just about the only sales pitch iMac owners are subjected to is the offer to sign up for a .Mac subscription (which provides online services such as photo sharing and 10GB of online storage at rates starting at $99.95 per year) when you first set up the system. You don't need to worry about 30-day subscriptions to antivirus (not needed on a Mac so far, although you'll still need to watch out for spam, phishing and ID theft) software updates of OS X and the pre-loaded programs, including iLife '08 are free; and if you use your own XP or Vista setup disc, your Boot Camp partition will be free of bloatware, too. This leaves you more space for music, photos, and videos," Santo Domingo reports.

"Since the introduction of the first aluminum iMac model in August 2007 a bunch of competitors have cropped up... even though there are a slew of new competitors to the iMac, none of them have quite enough innovation or execution to dethrone the king of the all-in-one desktops," Santo Domingo reports.

Full review here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Corinne" for the heads up.]

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May 02, 08 - 11:29 am Comment from: Jubei

Looks like the new iMac is a big hit! Even better than Doomed Tangs much beloved DELL.

May 02, 08 - 11:39 am Comment from: M.X.N.T.4.1

Even if the competitors were somehow quantifiably the same as the iMac they would still be worse because they don't run OS X. Simple as.

May 02, 08 - 11:50 am Comment from: whatever

Where is the Glossy Screen® comment? I am waiting....

May 02, 08 - 11:51 am Comment from: macoverdose_dot_com

doomed tang probably cant respond right now cuz he had to restart his dull.... should be back in 10 to 15 min since hes running vista.. ouch

May 02, 08 - 11:56 am Comment from: eMax

I thought these were special versions of the current processors, and not the new low power ones???

which is it?

May 02, 08 - 12:03 pm Comment from: IT guy

tell us something new!

May 02, 08 - 12:19 pm Comment from: Steve516

@ eMax

The penryn processors are all lower power and faster - its part of the 45nm architecture.

May 02, 08 - 12:35 pm Comment from: madgunde

Isn't saying it's the best all-in-one kinda like telling your only brother he's your favorite?

I don't think these headlines are anything for Mac users to be proud of. I think it's an easy way for PC Magazine et. al. to avoid pissing off their bigger advertisers.

I'd be happier to see them say it's the best PC for under $x,x00, or the best home computer money could buy. This best all-in-one crap is stupid.

May 02, 08 - 01:10 pm Comment from: Rainer

@eMax:
The chips are new Penryn, but the motherboard seems to be the old one but overclocked to the new 1066 MHz FSB.
Still SantaRosa, not Montecino.

May 02, 08 - 01:35 pm Comment from: MaLvado

And Apple is the only one with the 3GHz version on the market...

May 02, 08 - 02:22 pm Comment from: petej

Actually, .Mac is not the only sales pitch. I believe iWork and Office are trial editions that try to get you pay up.

That is not that bad compared to a typical winblows machine and it's share of crapware.

May 02, 08 - 03:40 pm Comment from: Matte

Glossy Screen® comment.

May 02, 08 - 10:10 pm Comment from: Mac Daddy

I love mine, glossy screen and all

May 03, 08 - 03:04 am Comment from: We Don't Need No Glossy Screens®™

The new iMac design is a step backward with an RF trap case, butt-ugly & eye straining glossy screens, lame 20" LCD panels, low-grade graphics card, crappy remapped keyboard and a garbage mouse. How about a little more function and a little less eye candy.

May 03, 08 - 09:47 am Comment from: Devolution

"How about a little more function and a little less eye candy."

If you want more function and less eye candy at a lower price then you need another type of Windows PC.

May 03, 08 - 11:14 am Comment from: Cubert

"This newest iteration of iMac is powered by the new Intel 'Penryn' (45nm) Core 2 Duo E8235 processor,"

E8235 or -36, whatever it takes.

May 03, 08 - 12:04 pm Comment from: GizmoDan

The other bloatware included in new Macs is the demo only version of iWork.

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