The back’s gentle curve helps even a computer this big to look low-key in its surroundings. That is, when you see it from any angle other than head-on.

This particular iteration has aged gracefully, and continues to be elegant where the thicker models from 2011 and earlier didn’t. Make of that what you will, but that also means there’s not much to complain about.Īlthough, if we were to complain about something, it would probably be the one that’s obnoxiously in our faces: the display’s thick black bezel and the aluminum chin below look increasingly dated.Ĭonsidering that Apple has trimmed some of that fat from all of its MacBooks, on which doing so must have been more of a challenge, it’s definitely disappointing that Apple doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to do the same for its all-in-one desktop.Ĭhanging the overall good look isn’t urgent, however.

DesignĪgain, Apple has been using this look for the iMac for more than six years now. If you have money and need a lot more power, consider the iMac Pro, which comes it at $4,999 (£4,899, AU$7,299) for 27-inch 5K Retina display, an 8-core Intel Xeon W processor, AMD Radeon Vega 56 (8GB) graphics, 32GB of error-correcting code (ECC) memory and a 1TB SSD. Before you balk at that, read about its impact in our HandBrake test, as it might be the way to go if you expect your all-in-one to do heavy lifting often. It’s not the only way, but the other – adding the more powerful eight-core i9 that was in our review unit – adds $500/£450/AU$770 to the mid-range spec or $400/£360/AU$640 to the highest standard config. That’ll set you back $2,299/£2,249/AU$3,549, which is actually the most affordable way to get a ninth-gen CPU in an iMac. At the top of the 27-inch iMac 2019 line-up is a model that includes a ninth-gen, six-core i5 as standard.

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