This is the first iMac in a while IвЂ™d recommend buying with a set of external speakers.Д¬ompare this: Apple's new iMac vs. That makes everything sound a little tinny, and songs lose some punch. Mids and highs sound great, and the down-firing speakers are loud enough to fill a room, but thereвЂ™s absolutely zero bass response. IвЂ™ve always loved the iMacвЂ™s speakers вЂ“ you rarely get integrated speakers with decent bass response and clear sound, and the iMac used to offer both - but in the newer, slimmer model, theyвЂ™re actually a step backward. Having every single port on the back is a little annoying, but the SD card slot is particularly bad since I pop cards in and out so often after taking pictures. The SD card slot has also been moved to the back, joining the headphone jack in the row of other ports (four USB 3.0, two Thunderbolt, and one Gigabit Ethernet). The iMac's screen should make it a perfect device for watching movies, and its huge hard drive should make a perfect storage machine for your photos or movies, but without an optical drive, both my Blu-ray collection and the decade's worth of home movies sit untouched. That decision makes some sense on laptops, where every ounce and millimeter matters, but I miss it here.

For starters, thereвЂ™s no optical drive in the iMac anymore. Since a 5mm edge doesnвЂ™t leave room for much of anything, the iMac's other parts had to get shifted around a bit. That part was weird, but it just goes to show how good-looking this thing is. ItвЂ™s incredibly sleek - almost every single person who saw it on my desk started stroking it absent-mindedly. It's not quite as light as the HDTV-like Vizio All-in-One PC, but itвЂ™s still thinner than most computer monitors youвЂ™ll find, and thereвЂ™s, you know, a whole computer inside. It's almost an optical illusion, astonishingly thin if you look at it from the front but much fatter if you catch it at the wrong angle. AppleвЂ™s claim of it being 5mm thin is a bit misleading - the back bulges out from the razor-thin edges almost like an old CRT television, and in the center itвЂ™s about four times as thick. But itвЂ™s smaller, lighter, and thinner than ever. ItвЂ™s still very much an iMac, with a big black bezel surrounding a big screen, an aluminum chin below with a glossy Apple logo in its center, and a tilting aluminum stand sticking out of the back.

This year's iMac appears to have undergone the computer version of elective cosmetic surgery вЂ“ it doesnвЂ™t look different, just better.

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