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See a 5K Retina iMac take on an anti-tank cannon...and lose, badly

It's torture testing taken to another level when a fist-sized bullet is launched at Apple's latest desktop.

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In the gadget torture-testing world, when you've already dropped an iPhone 6 thousands of feet, frozen and smashed an iPhone 6 Plus with a sledgehammer and ended an Apple Watch's time with a rifle, all you can do to top it off is literally take your game to a much higher caliber.

YouTuber Richard Ryan is the guy who has brought us all the aforementioned tech destruction, and now he's taken things to the next level by bringing in a 90mm anti-tank cannon to take aim at Apple's latest 5K Retina Display iMac .

The carnage is predictable and terrifying, but when it's slowed down, it's kind of beautiful. After ripping a hole in that beautiful display, the force of the blow then peels apart all the internal layers of the computer like an exploding onion.

Watch for yourself in the above video and let us know in the comments what sort of sadistic testing you'd like to see some of today's top gadgets subjected to.