Prince McLean at AppleInsider:
The latest iMacs deliver a significant performance boost, better specs overall and much greater RAM expansion. Along with its capability to act as a DisplayPort monitor, the new model and its incredible widescreen display delivers a great overall package at a new lower price. It’s also great to see Apple offering RAM upgrades at prices that aren’t simply absurdly unreasonable.
The iMac’s glossy screen will not appeal to some users, but the display looks amazing, and is a significant jump up in quality compared to last year’s iMacs. If you’re in the market for a new iMac, the new model makes a great, well rounded upgrade. If you’re considering a new large display, you might even be tempted to get the iMac just for that, and leave it running in the background as a server or distributed processing node. The only possible downside might be if the noises we heard are typical and not something that can be addressed by AppleCare or a software update.
Users wanting to add their own RAM have four slots to work with, but anyone hoping to add another hard drive must watch out for the new vendor-specific temperature sensors, an issue that we didn’t see mentioned anywhere on Apple’s site. Overall, the new big screen iMac promises to be a popular addition to Apple’s lineup, and deliver a great performance to dollar ratio.
After playing with one at our local Apple Store, all I can say is holy cow. It’s a very nice machine, all the way around.