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What reviewers said about the iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017)

1 review of this exact model. Quotes are short, word for word, and each links to the article it came from. Every one was checked against that article on . MacIQ gives no score and no stars, and averages nothing.

Only 1 review could be used for this Mac, so this page is not offered to search engines. Nothing is added to make up the number.

What reviewers raise

A count of the reviews we quote on this page that have a quote on each topic, from the findings shown below. A review may say more on a topic than we quote, so it counts what is quoted here, not everything each review covers, and it says how often a topic is quoted, not what was said about it. Battery, performance and heat are counted over the 1 review of this exact model.

Where reviewers and Apple differ

No reviewer’s own figure on this page can be set beside an Apple claim for the same kind of test, so nothing is compared here.

The reviews

Newest first, in the order of the date each article prints (which may be an update date, not a first-publication date). Each quote links to its article; the date is the one the article prints, labelled as the article labels it. “Published” and “Updated” appear only where the article prints that word beside the date; “Dated” means the article prints that date with no label, so the date itself does not say whether it is the first publication or an update. A later update that an article mentions only in an editor’s note is not used as its date.

TechRadar

Tested: 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display (2017): 3.0GHz Intel Core i5-7400 (3.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i5), AMD Radeon Pro 555 with 2GB, 8GB RAM

Display

Photos look stunning on the iMac’s panel and are expertly colored, thanks to its P3 color gamut.

Speakers

Apple’s pursuit of absolute thinness despite cramming all of the iMac’s innards behind the display has only led to abysmal audio.