2020 iMac Still Worth It?

[sifpilsen]

That is the first interesting argument I have heard yet, but really the studio display are not better than the one in a 2015 iMac.

Not really. The 2020 27' iMac had the same resolution, but still the brightness was 600 on the Studio Display vs 500 on the iMac. No earlier iMacs I have seen had brighter displays either.

It’s also 1.5 times more expensive than a 2020 iMac in itself.

The price is high, yes. But in my experience, they tend to last a long time too. Many times have I seen Apple displays in use 10-15 years later, adapters allowing.

 

[Heliotropen]

Not really. The 2020 27' iMac had the same resolution, but still the brightness was 600 on the Studio Display vs 500 on the iMac. No earlier iMacs I have seen had brighter displays either.

The price is high, yes. But in my experience, they tend to last a long time too. Many times have I seen Apple displays in use 10-15 years later, adapters allowing.

Well if you use it above 500 nits brightness, I have had both a place I worked at and much prefered the iMac monitor, might just be that I like the formfactor more and tp be honest don’t like the feeling of a normal monitor. In practise I havn’t been able to see a diffence and I’m a professionel designer working with Pantone, Cmyk and Web as well (been doing that for 20 years by now) …

Well the studio display is allot more expensive than the 2020 iMac these days, almost twice as expensive refurbished.
And I could se myself doing some DIY monitor work when my software stops working: because again, I truly like the form factor better... it's trendy with no bezels and such ... but it's not as immersive.

 

[pshufd]

2020 iMac 27 showed up locally (about 35 miles away) for sale. i7, 8 GB GPU, 32 GB RAM, Apple keyboard and mouse for $1,099 which is a fair price. I saw it and thought about it and it was gone in a few hours. These are about $1,200 - $1,300 on certified refurbished sites so it was quite reasonably priced and was gone right away.

I mainly see stuff that's overpriced but, when it is priced properly, it sells quickly.

 

[Heliotropen]

I was just lucky, here in Denmark the Machines usually cost 50% more +25% vat … but I’ve seen alot in “as new, refurbished” condition lately, in fact I just jumped on one of those myself: 10 gen i7 with 8 cores, 500:gb flash, 5500 XT, and for 100 usd I got 64 gb of rams off eBay to it… I wanted to find a Silicon machine that I could live with so badly, but there is NO form factor I enjoyed sitting in front of (as a brand designer myself)… even had a studio display and a Mac studio Max, but had to return it; the feeling of sitting in front of it just felt ******…

 

[pshufd]

Best Buy and OWC are still doing a nice business in refurbished 2020 iMacs and prices are holding up. Best Buy has the i7 model for $1,250 on and off and OWC has i5-i9 models for $800 - $1,650. For whatever reasons, there's still quite a healthy customer base out there for this model. I am still waiting for local models on Craigslist as these prices are higher than I would pay for equipment this old.

 

[Heliotropen]

Well I returned my Apple display and bought one (im in Denmark though, so no best buy or OWC) … very happy with it.