Costco Wholesale has for
Costco Members:
Apple iMac 24", M1 Chip, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD (2021) on sale for
$999.99.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
nylarthotep for sharing this deal
Specs:
- Apple M1 Octa-Core Processor (4x high-performance + 4x high-efficiency)
- 24" 4480x2520 Retina Display
- 8GB RAM (Unified Memory)
- 256GB Solid State Drive
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.0
- 1080p FaceTime HD camera
- Microphone (three-mic array)
- High-fidelity six-speaker system with force-cancelling woofers
- Magic Keyboard
- Magic Mouse
- Mac OS Monterey
- Ports
- 2x Thunderbolt / USB 4
- 1x 3.5mm Headphone
- 1x Ethernet
Available Colors:
- Orange (MGPR3LL/A)
- Yellow (MGPF3LL/A)
- Purple (MGPP3LL/A)
- Green (MGPH3LL/A)
- Pink (MGPM3LL/A)
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Most likely this price is because M2 iMacs are imminent.
Please, if you will, humor us all and put together a package for $1,000 that meets or beats this unit's 8 core CPU / GPU Passmark scores, SSD read/write speeds, 4.5k 100% P3 color space monitor at 218 ppi and 500 nits, WiFi speed of 760 MBit/s, two (2) Thunderbolt 3's at 40Gbps, two (2) USB 3.1 Gen 2's at 10Gbps, a 1080P webcam and microphones of this quality, and a six (6) speaker sound system that is equally as superb.
Also, don't forget the cost of a keyboard with fingerprint login and a mouse capable of multi touch input.
We will all be waiting for the cost of the i7 system or better it will take to beat this iMac at $1,000. You can try, but if you can't put the system together right here right now, well, then you simply live in a world where measurable objective criteria are meaningless.
Waiting endlessly for a link to something even marginally better in all of these metrics at $1,000 or less.
Oh, and don't worry, there will be no requirement that it be less than 10lbs or 1/2 inch thick like the iMac.
Good luck!
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But you don't get the all in one and super nice monitor etc. which is of course the point of the iMac.
Exactly what I thought. I am a Mac user at home (windows and linux at work) since 2014 and like its OS being stable. But boy, this IMac should not have been made at all. It goes to landfill sooner and bad for the environment. 256Gig, eventually you need to get an external ssd sticking out at the back. 8 gig of memory is getting by but not a $1K worth.
Very different approach. Equivalent to 16GB of DDR5 in a windows unit.
If you simply refuse to use the Cloud, or reside in a remote area, then simply get yourself a short flush mounted USB C cable and one of these babies:
https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Sou...B09QRZ2DF
Also, Apple 100% completely recycles their own products at zero cost to you.
Be informed.
Top tier Apple iPhone = 6GB RAM - runs circles around anything else.
IPad Pro = 8GB RAM - dominates every tablet containing more RAM. Even the lower specked iPads with 3-6GB RAM simply throttle any non-Apple tablet.
Same for iMac = 8GB RAM - beats the daylights out of most systems. You're in the $2k range on anything else to top this $999 iMac, and even then the 3rd party monitor, sound system, and camera can't compete unless you jack up to $2,500.
Note the 2021 M1 iMac chip decimates the Intel chips found in the $6,000 Mac Pro's.
And, the newest MacOS Ventura is blazingly faster than the prior MacOS Monterey, so, the latest software update actually dramatically improves performance.
I agree that software updates slowed down prior Intel based systems, but the ARM based SOC that is the M1 is a completely different architecture.
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Plus MacOS Ventura is blazingly faster than MacOS Monterey, so, it also depends on if the latest system software update is present. These iMacs ship with Monterey. One must upgrade to Ventura to see peak performance.
YouTube comments are unreliable unless they are providing independently sourced and verifiable comparative data.
Man these specs are like from 10 years ago! and it's on front page and people are buying it for $1000 !!!
No wonder there's hyper inflation.
Man these specs are like from 10 years ago! and it's on front page and people are buying it for $1000 !!!
No wonder there's hyper inflation.
Very different approach. Equivalent to 16GB of DDR5 in a windows unit.
Honestly I feel old talking about my past gadgets. Haha Nowadays I rarely think about this kinds of stuff.
Tldr: - M1 is not as god tiered as you're making it and Intel 12th gen certainly caught up in most real world categories and you absolutely can build one for under 1k that can match apples raw computing power with 32gb of ram that is certainly better at handling large tasks
- idk about GPU but if you're not video editing can't game or do anything else so I didn't include it in the comparison
- Ram absolutely needs to be future proofed and 8gb even on apple machines can run into issues (tabs and YouTube videos have little to nothing to do with pure computing power)
- all the other stuff nice to have but not really important for work (webcam eh speaker gorgeous but I'm not blasting music and would most likely get a pair of headphones)
- size matters not beauty idgaf that my iPhone has a beautiful screen I'm not working on it
-portability is also meh 99 percent of people can lift 10 15 lbs and moving things around and cables aren't that bothersome.
note* you also seem to be seriously praising tb which is hilarious as apple is notoriously terrible with ports on their machines but most MB have tb or you can literally but usb to pcie ports
Sources:
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Tldr: - M1 is not as god tiered as you're making it and Intel 12th gen certainly caught up in most real world categories and you absolutely can build one for under 1k that can match apples raw computing power with 32gb of ram that is certainly better at handling large tasks
- idk about GPU but if you're not video editing can't game or do anything else so I didn't include it in the comparison
- Ram absolutely needs to be future proofed and 8gb even on apple machines can run into issues (tabs and YouTube videos have little to nothing to do with pure computing power)
- all the other stuff nice to have but not really important for work (webcam eh speaker gorgeous but I'm not blasting music and would most likely get a pair of headphones)
- size matters not beauty idgaf that my iPhone has a beautiful screen I'm not working on it
-portability is also meh 99 percent of people can lift 10 15 lbs and moving things around and cables aren't that bothersome.
note* you also seem to be seriously praising tb which is hilarious as apple is notoriously terrible with ports on their machines but most MB have tb or you can literally but usb to pcie ports
Sources:
https://www.dealntech.c
The 12th gen i7 system stated for comparison has no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse. A monitor the quality of the iMac's will drive up the cost substantially above $1,000. As accurately stated earlier by another respondent, "There is no monitor close to $400 that matches the specs on this" iMac.
- 24-inch 4.5K Retina display
- 4480-by-2520 resolution at 218 pixels per inch with support for 1 billion colors
- 500 nits brightness
- Wide color (P3)
Also noted previously, and quite accurately,
"The RAM is not the bottleneck on software updates; the CPU/GPU is.
Note the 2021 M1 iMac chip decimates the Intel chips found in the $6,000 Mac Pro's.
And, the newest MacOS Ventura is blazingly faster than the prior MacOS Monterey, so, the latest software update actually dramatically improves performance.
I agree that software updates slowed down prior Intel based systems, but the ARM based SOC that is the M1 is a completely different architecture."
So, in short - this iMac deal is simply the best comprehensive bang for the buck for most every user. And, if you are an iPad or especially an iPhone user, their integration with this iMac is near seamless; Apple AirPlay, AirDrop, iMessage, Handoff, and Continuity to name just a few of the interdependent software goodies.
More on the Apple M1 chip in the link below. Happy shopping on the best computer deal of the year!
https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/...ps-so-fast
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