The power cord passes through a two-inch diameter hole in the stand in the stylish and discrete way in which we have come to expect from Apple. It's almost as if the monitor is floating. The monitor/computer attaches to the stand by a hinge, enabling the user to effortlessly adjust the angle of the monitor. ![]() This means no more crawling under the desk to get behind the chassis to plug or unplug cables. The base needs to suspend the entire computer which is built-in behind the display (two-inches thin in all). Lifting it out of the box, we realized why: the slim-looking, slightly thicker than one-quarter inch, aluminum metal base is heavy. This, the third incarnation of the iMac, is thin. It's as if Apple put its popular iMac on the Atkins diet. This was a very different looking computer. The box the iMac came in had full-scale images of the computer on three sides, the front of the computer on the front, the right side of the computer on the right side of the box and the back on the back. ![]() ![]() But, alas, we had to put the entire system through the test wringer. When we first received the 1.8 GHz 20″ iMac it was difficult not to cycle through our entire DVD collection in order to continually "test" the large, crisp 1680×1050 monitor and surprisingly good onboard speakers.
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