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I bought a new iMac today. I have a iPhone, iPad and Apple watch and I wanted to complete the integration among my devices.
I did do something new, however, I bought an older generation M1 computer from Costco and went a step further and bought the base unit with only 8GB ram and 256GB SSD. I had been looking at the iMac for a while and when I saw this one on Costco for $999.97, I pulled the trigger. It's the unit that has the Ethernet port so one step up from the base model. Original price was $1,499 which would have been $1,449 at Costco, for a savings of $450. Not bad.
I'm a little concerned about buying the base ram/ssd unit but I did a lot of research and worked to determine my real needs and I think it should work just fine. In years past, there's no way I would have bought a base unit, but the truth is that my use case is drastically reduced since being retired. I mainly surf and get emails. I have a couple very simple spreadsheets (financial) that I maintain and produce a word document from time to time. The only program I buy is Turbo Tax and a search on their site says the install size is only 1GB. I think the Office program I want is about 10GB.
They had it in my color (Blue) so I bought it today and it should be here Friday. Wish me luck.
I did do something new, however, I bought an older generation M1 computer from Costco and went a step further and bought the base unit with only 8GB ram and 256GB SSD. I had been looking at the iMac for a while and when I saw this one on Costco for $999.97, I pulled the trigger. It's the unit that has the Ethernet port so one step up from the base model. Original price was $1,499 which would have been $1,449 at Costco, for a savings of $450. Not bad.
I'm a little concerned about buying the base ram/ssd unit but I did a lot of research and worked to determine my real needs and I think it should work just fine. In years past, there's no way I would have bought a base unit, but the truth is that my use case is drastically reduced since being retired. I mainly surf and get emails. I have a couple very simple spreadsheets (financial) that I maintain and produce a word document from time to time. The only program I buy is Turbo Tax and a search on their site says the install size is only 1GB. I think the Office program I want is about 10GB.
They had it in my color (Blue) so I bought it today and it should be here Friday. Wish me luck.