The latest iMac with 5K retina display

[SpontaneousOrder]

My wife has just bought a new Windows machine, which I'm slightly jealous of as it boots in about 5 seconds. (Not a fast processor, but it has SSD disk plus UEFI, I think it's called.) Anyway, it's actually capabable of doing everything I use a PC for. (I don't play games, most strenuous use is probably Monte Carlo simulations of my retirement!)

It cost less than a tenth as much as that iMac.

So I suppose the iMac is for people who are willing to pay ten times as much for a sexier PC.

Or do its users actually have funtional requirements that it meets, and a Windows machine costing 90% less doesn't?

Edit: a tenth might be an exaggeration, I have only a hazy idea of iMac price, however the point remains valid: if the iMac is more than several hundred pounds then it's already costing multiples of what a machine that does everything I need costs.

(Wife's machine was a £200 Zoostorm from Ebuyer, to which was added a £125 22" monitor capable of use in portrait mode.)

Your wife's machine that cost less than a tenth is fine for browsing the web... but then if that's all you want to do then why would you buy a much more powerful iMac?

[SpontaneousOrder]

In my opinion, no.

that can essentially the same stuff?

But one with the same stuff wouldn't be ten times cheaper

[d000hg]

My wife has just bought a new Windows machine, which I'm slightly jealous of as it boots in about 5 seconds. (Not a fast processor, but it has SSD disk plus UEFI, I think it's called.) Anyway, it's actually capabable of doing everything I use a PC for. (I don't play games, most strenuous use is probably Monte Carlo simulations of my retirement!)

It cost less than a tenth as much as that iMac.

So I suppose the iMac is for people who are willing to pay ten times as much for a sexier PC.

Or do its users actually have funtional requirements that it meets, and a Windows machine costing 90% less doesn't?

Edit: a tenth might be an exaggeration, I have only a hazy idea of iMac price, however the point remains valid: if the iMac is more than several hundred pounds then it's already costing multiples of what a machine that does everything I need costs.

(Wife's machine was a £200 Zoostorm from Ebuyer, to which was added a £125 22" monitor capable of use in portrait mode.)

How did you get a PC with SSD for £200?

[stek]

How did you get a PC with SSD for £200?

OP is talking bollocks, looked on Ebuyer site at Zoostorms, no SSD and all the cheap ones are Celerons...

[Platypus]

I specc'ed my dream Mac Mini (I do fancy one of those) and top-of-the-line was £1799

[d000hg]

I specc'ed my dream Mac Mini (I do fancy one of those) and top-of-the-line was £1799

Choose the CPU you want in the cheapest configuration, and upgrade it yourself?

[Platypus]

Choose the CPU you want in the cheapest configuration, and upgrade it yourself?

As mentioned in Technical, upgrading has been made deliberately much harder to the point where Apple say there are no user upgradable parts, not even the 2nd hard drive!

Mac mini (2014) first look review - Review - Macworld UK

[JRCT]

I'm in dire need of a new laptop/ pc and after months of swithering, I've got my finger on the 'buy now' button for an iMac right now.

John Lewis have the 1.4ghz version at £799. And the 2.7ghz at £949.


Should I go the extra £150? Decisions, decisions.

[stek]

I'm in dire need of a new laptop/ pc and after months of swithering, I've got my finger on the 'buy now' button for an iMac right now.

John Lewis have the 1.4ghz version at £799. And the 2.7ghz at £949.


Should I go the extra £150? Decisions, decisions.

I'm on the 27" Retina iMac now - do it - after looking at the screen, nothing else will do - even though Apple locked out the 5120 resolution. Initially I was peeved, so I used a res switcher to get the full resolution.

Apple was right - I could hardly read the menu bar, it was tiny - in perfect detail, but tiny. The Dock was a tiny strip. 3120 is fine, and nice.

Just like my hero John Shuttleworth can't go back to Savory now, I can't go back to non-retina now....

I Can't Go Back To Non-Retina Now....