27-inch iMac Core i5/2.66GHz

Macworld's 27-inch iMac Core i5/2.66GHz Coverage

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  27-inch Core i5 iMac (with Core i7 option) The wait is over: The 27-inch Core i5 (and Core i7) iMacs have arrived. We've tested the new quad core iMacs, and it was worth the wait.
• What to buy: the family home office Your home office is rarely yours alone. It might be help you crank out professional-looking work-product from 9:00 to 5:00 Monday through Friday. But after hours and on the weekend, it becomes a multitasking, multi-user system for everything from assembling and printing school reports to streaming movies from Netflix. Here's one home-office setup, combining our current favorite desktop Mac with a top-rated multifunction printer, high-capacity backup drive, and speakers, that will handle it all.
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  What to buy: the dream home office Here's one home-office setup—including a top-rated desktop Mac, multifunction printer, high-capacity backup drive, and speakers—that can crank out professional-looking work for you from 9 to 5, then serve as your family's multitasking, multimedia, multi-user machine after hours.
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  Benchmarks: New built-to-order MacBook Pros We were able to get our hands on a few built-to-order laptops: a 15-inch MacBook Pro with twice the standard RAM and a faster spinning hard drive; and a 17-inch model with an optional i7 processor. We put them though their paces and found that these optional upgrades, not surprisingly, improved overall performance. Whether they’re worth the additional cost is debatable.
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  Apple releases pair of firmware updates for 27-inch iMacs Apple on Wednesday released two firmware updates for 27-inch iMacs, addressing a variety of issues.