It can still feel like there's a layer of stuff you need to be told about, rather than discover.
If there is a little criticism of macOS it's that some of the features – like Mission Control, which enables you to navigate multiple desktops and open windows – can be a little hard to locate for novice users. We think macOS is still a fine operating system and comes with more software than ever, including all the basic apps you need to handle photos, documents, browse the web and more. Software-wise, this machine currently ships with the very stable macOS 10.14 Mojave, but will be fully upgradeable to the forthcoming macOS Catalina (10.15) which will launch in September 2019.
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While SSD is better overall – and is what a pro user would ideally want – they cost a lot more for the same capacity and so Apple has struck the balance between mass-market appeal and those who demand more and so can upgrade the systems on show. These drives are only used on Mac desktops – portable Macs exclusively use SSD now. They will learn about the apps you use the most and move them to the flash part of the drive – so the stuff you use most often will start fastest. These hybrid drives (by any other name) combine a hard disk drive for capacity with a small amount of flash storage for speed. The Fusion Drives in the other systems – including our review unit – are much better. Indeed, just by maxing out the basic specs (CPU, memory, graphics and storage) in the configurator, you can soon add hundreds of pounds to the cost of your iMac. And instead of the Fusion Drive, you can opt for an SSD, though that storage – as with Apple's own memory upgrades – gets costly to have at the point of order. You can also specify the Radeon Pro Vega 20 professional grade graphics card, too, but that option will set you back £315. You can upgrade either of the first two models to a 3.2 GHz hexa-core Intel Core i7-8700 (up to 4.6 GHz Turbo Boost) should you wish, although you're talking about an extra £180 for that. There's an even older 2.3GHz dual-core 7th Gen Core i5-7360U model which was first introduced in mid-2017, so is now ageing.
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Below this still is a non-Retina base-level version with a Full HD display, integrated Intel graphics and slower memory. An also-new lower spec iMac variant with the 8th Gen quad-core 8th Gen Core i3-8100 clocked at 3.6Ghz is available in Retina screen format.