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Unlike the Mac mini, whose virtues are more contentious depending on your view, the iMac - particularly in its 24in guise - is an easier sell. It helps that most alternative 24in all-in-one's are more expensive, largely due to a greater emphasis on multimedia features, but it doesn't change the fact that the iMac is an iconic piece of design that also delivers as a powerful and - lack of Blu-ray excluded - well featured desktop replacement that benefits from one vital and so far unmentioned attribute: Apple OS X. Read full review

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9/10

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By Andy Vandervell
Reviewed 25 March 2009
Updated 26 May 2011

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£1,199.00

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Apple iMac 24in - 2009 Edition details

Performance
8/10
Value
8/10
Features
8/10
Design
10/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£1,199.00

Manufacturer

Apple

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12:49 AM on 25 March, 2009

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Sorry but the value just isn't an 8. More like 5 again.





£1200 for a computer and what can it actually do? It has a 9400M graphics card, no integrated memory, therefore no (decent) games.





What can this actually do that the mac mini cant? An additional £700 for some more memory, a faster CPU, a screen & a mouse and keyboard, plus a hard disk upgrade.





Nothing above actually makes it a must have, a mac mini is going to be plenty fast enough for anything that you might want to use this for.





I really don't understand why anybody would buy this over the mac mini!

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2:27 AM on 25 March, 2009

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It's still not too late to remove the blasphemous comment, that this is a PC before the Apple crowd show up.

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3:29 AM on 25 March, 2009

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Have to say, I almost got this over my Mac mini but didn't have the money or the space for it. It also stands up quite well price-wise to other Core 2 Duo All-in-ones like the Dell XPS One.





Anyway, two favourable Apple reviews in the space of two days - soon TR will be accused of having an Apple bias (to add to its Panasonic one) :)

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7:09 AM on 25 March, 2009

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i'll be damned if that keyboard didn't come straight from a macbook.

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7:46 AM on 25 March, 2009

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@xenos - value score is probably compared to other 24 inch all in ones. fair comparison, if you ask me.

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7:52 AM on 25 March, 2009

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Andy - can you please confirm this value score is judged only against other Macs (as Hugo carefully explained in his Mac Mini review commentary)? Many thanks.

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8:44 AM on 25 March, 2009

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How can the overall score be a 9 when all the bits that really matter (features, performance and value) are all 8?

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@Petrov: As stated in the review more than once (and others above) the value score is based on the iMac's value compared to other manufacturers which, if you look around, is surprisingly good.





@Lee Marshall: That's one way of looking at it, but design is just as important as any other category in this regard as people who buy this product will buy it (in part) due to its design - or certainly as a large factor in their decision. I'm guessing from your tone you don't fit into this category, so the iMac probably isn't for you.





Regardless of this, though, any product that scores a 10 in one category and 8s in all the others stands a perfectly reasonable chance of getting a 9 overall. And, in case you were wondering, the overall score isn't an average - never has been.

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@Xenos: Just wanted to add that with your spare $700, you can instantly cut that down to around £300 or once you take into account a decent 24inch monitor. £300 for the other bits and bobs seems reasonable.





Also, having initially baulked at the price of this system, just like you, I went about trying to spec up a comparible PC (not an all in one, just a normal PC) and got to about £900 for the basics without any extra peripherals beyond a monitor. Factor in things like speakers, webcam, keyboard, and mouse and you're probably pushing £1000. Then take into account the all-in-one sleekness and you have a product that actually represents reasonable value.

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*Just wanted to add that with your spare £700, you can instantly cut that down to around £300 or so...

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