Really impressed with my new iMac

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It's been about a day since I received my new 21 inch iMac with all of the specs maxed out and I must say that I am quite impressed. I was previously using a late 2008 unibody MBP. I tend to keep my CPU maxed out for hours (sometimes days) at a time. My MBP would turn into a fireball and the fans would emit a very loud noise. Now with my new iMac, the system runs cool, and I can't even hear the fans running, that's with the iMac running at full capacity since I got it. Of course, there is also the gorgeous 1080p 21 inch screen (i think it's 1080p, it's 1920 x 1080) and it's 2-3x faster in doing most of my tasks. :D
 

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Sounds awesome!:)...how come you didn't go with the 27" display?

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The truth is, I would have preferred the 27" with a quad-core i7 processor, but as it is the 21" iMac JUST fits into my desk.
 
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Love mine after 10 years in the pc world.27 would have swallowed up my kitchen counter where my imac proudly lords over my condo
 
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yeah, as awesome as 27" is, for some spaces it's just too darn big.
 
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I'm also enjoying the iMac's built in speakers. They are far better then I expected. They have a much richer sound to them than my MBP's speakers ever did. A deeper bass as well.
 
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Jealous!

I'm waiting for mine to get here in the mail! I've checked the order status page about 100 times since this morning. haha high five
 

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15" MBP '06 2.33 C2D 4GB 10.7; 13" MBA '14 1.8 i7 8GB 10.11; 21" iMac '13 2.9 i5 8GB 10.11; 6S
Stories like this make it hard when I'm torn between another Mac and building a new Win7 beast.
 
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I'm waiting for mine to get here in the mail! I've checked the order status page about 100 times since this morning. haha high five

I know what you're going through, I was there myself last week.

Stories like this make it hard when I'm torn between another Mac and building a new Win7 beast.

I have always wanted to build my own machine. It's too bad you can't really build your own Mac.
 

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