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Apple iMac 27-Inch Desktop

Apple gets serious about out-of-the-box home desktop computing.

For some time there has been a missing mac. You could get an iMac up to 24" in screen for just over a thousand dollars, or you could get a nearly three thousand dollar mac pro and a thirty inch display which tips over four thousand dollars total.

Crap!

No longer is this a problem.

Apple has come out with a gorgeous 27" iMac, with a 16.9 aspect ratio 21.5" display, powerful next generation Intel Nehalem and Lynfield processors, and more.

This is an ideal system for anyone looking for a desktop Apple computer. If you want to insert PCI-E cards into it for fiber optic networking, you are out of luck. If you don't know what that means, or don't care, which is essentially everybody with a margin of error of somebody, this IS the desktop Apple system you are looking for.

Amazon Description: Featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 widescreen display in a edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The iMac, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz. Storage is never an issue with the iMac, this unit features a 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive. The iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the wireless Magic Mouse, the worlds first mouse with Multi-Touch technology. 21.5 iMac - 3.06GHz/1TB HD plus ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics with 256MB Apple Wireless Keyboard Magic Mouse Cleaning cloth Power cord Install/restore DVDs Printed and electronic documentation