C|Net gave the new Apple iMac itis Editorsi Choice Award on Wednesday.
The iMac was cited for its best-in-class design, solid feeling,
thin but solid keyboard, iLife i08, and performance in multimedia benchmarks.
C|Net noted that, regarding the internal hardware, the changes
have been simply generational, with new CPU speeds and graphics card updates.
Except for extreme gaming, the iMac holds its own. “Now that the Intel-compatible Mac version of Photoshop CS3 is out, Apple can compete on a level playing field with Windows desktops,” Rich Brown wrote for C|Net.
“And as expected, the new iMac dominates on Photoshop and on multimedia multitasking, and it also does very well on iTunes and CineBench, the latter as much a measure of overall multicore processing power as it is an indicator of a systemis ability to process movie files. Compared to a wide range of competing mainstream desktops, the new Apple iMac more than holds its own, with one typical exception: gaming.”
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