Ars Technica has benchmarked the "new" $1,099 iMac and confirmed what we initially suspected: that the drop in performance isn't worth the money you save. In fact, for the eighteen percent you save over the $1,299 iMac, you lose fifty percent of the performance, and have a machine that's roughly equivalent in performance to a MacBook Air. However, Ars echoes what many of you told us: it's an ideal machine for institutions that don't need speed, but could save a fortune buying in bulk.
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