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Honestly, why should I even worry about how they build the machine? My 27in Intel iMac is 7-8 years old and I will probably get 2-3 more years out of it. That's
by elteto 3y ago
Honestly, why should I even worry about how they build the machine? My 27in Intel iMac is 7-8 years old and I will probably get 2-3 more years out of it. That's a whole decade I'm getting out of the machine. Probably more than I would get from a non-bonded monitor.
- michael1999 3y agoYou stopped getting os updates, and will stop receiving even high-priority security updates this year. I feel much safer running a 10-year-old monitor than my 10-year-old laptop.
- poulsbohemian 3y agoThis is the issue pushing me to update, and I have to say I'm disappointed in Apple... when I bought this iMac, it was an absolute beast and even today it's very, very good kit. But Apple has decided it's too old to update.
- krabizzwainch 3y agoMy issue was that my 2019 iMac got updates that made the whole thing practically unusable. The storage became so slow that it would take like 10ish minutes to become usable after boot. I did have the version with a hdd instead of ssd, but it was fine right when I purchased it. I ran whatever storage tests that would show the drive wasn't dead/dying, so I was never sure what the issue was. My options were essentially to either trade it back to Apple for $300, try to sell it myself for maybe $400 and pay a ton to ship it, or try to take it apart myself to swap out the hard drive for an ssd and risk breaking part of it and it being worth $0. I caved and traded it in to Apple just so I could stop looking at the box.
- jollyllama 3y agoIndeed, because you could buy that one with base specs (2GB ram) and slap 64 in it with zero screws or soldering.