Macworld Reviews and First Looks

Review: 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs (Late 2009)

The Late 2009 iMacs are really about the new displays—and the displays are impressive.

Review: Mac mini (Late 2009)Just seven months after giving the Mac mini line its biggest update ever, Apple has bumped the performance of the company's smallest desktop computers. While the improvements are modest, the latest Mac minis address a few of our biggest criticisms of the Early 2009 models.
Speedmark 6: Macworld Lab's new benchmark suiteThe Macworld Lab has been hard at work tweaking Speedmark, our overall system performance testing tool, to better accommodate Snow Leopard and to test the Macs on which it runs.

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Review: 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs (Late 2009) The Late 2009 iMacs are really about the new displays—and the displays are impressive.
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iMac (Late 2009) benchmarks Macworld Lab has the new iMacs and we’ve put them to the test.