Where did you get one for that price? It seems demand has been going up, most refurbished resellers have raised there prices from $3500 up to near $4000
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Where did you get one for that price? It seems demand has been going up, most refurbished resellers have raised there prices from $3500 up to near $4000
I would love one for 3200. I’m about to buy a 10 core for 5200. I need one ASAP! I sold my 10 core two months ago for 4300. It was a bargain. I can’t find one for that price anymore.
on eBay. I found a seller that wanted 3800 at first. we worked out a deal where we did it off eBay and did it for $3200 shipped. Came in great condition. Sold my 2015 27 retina for $1200 on offer up the next day so everything worked out.
what a steal. I got the base 8 core.
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what a steal. I got the base 8 core.
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Similar scenario.. the quarantine has pushed me into a WFH situation, where my current desktop (iMac 2014, 4Ghz i7 cpu, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, Radeon R9 M295X 4 GB) is chugging along grudgingly, but not as smoothly as I'd like.
I am very enmeshed in the Apple environment via music, docs, browsers, cloud, etc. and of course appreciate the photo/video editing capabilities of the Pro (as well as the cool aesthetic).
That said, the caveat, is that I do a bit of gaming, maybe 10% of my time, but it's a nice little outlet, and I've had to eschew any advanced games because of the graphics limitations of my current machine.
My hesitation with not waiting for the rumored redesign is missing out on some excellent upgrades in the memory and graphics fields.
My concern about waiting for next year is that a) not sure when a new release will come about if at all, and b) the migration to in-house chips is great for Apple, however, I do a touch of gaming/computing in a Windows environment, so would assume I'd lose the bootcamp option sans intel chips.
Any words of advice from the sage community? Thank you!!
I am very enmeshed in the Apple environment via music, docs, browsers, cloud, etc. and of course appreciate the photo/video editing capabilities of the Pro (as well as the cool aesthetic).
That said, the caveat, is that I do a bit of gaming, maybe 10% of my time, but it's a nice little outlet, and I've had to eschew any advanced games because of the graphics limitations of my current machine.
My hesitation with not waiting for the rumored redesign is missing out on some excellent upgrades in the memory and graphics fields.
My concern about waiting for next year is that a) not sure when a new release will come about if at all, and b) the migration to in-house chips is great for Apple, however, I do a touch of gaming/computing in a Windows environment, so would assume I'd lose the bootcamp option sans intel chips.
Any words of advice from the sage community? Thank you!!
The basis is still pretty good. You probably have a Fusion Drive ? Is yes, this is the main bottleneck of your computer. The rest is far from being bad for a macOS usage. For a Windows (gaming), of course it's far from being great. But for a macOS usage, it's totally fine.
I'm still using a 2011 Sandy Bridge 2700K for scientific computation. Your iMac can surely do the job until AS iMac 30/32" is released
. Assuming you will never be able to run Windows again natively on a Mac.
I expect the pro level machines will be one of the last machines to switch to Apple Silicon. It's easy to scale up the processors in an iPad Pro for a Mac Mini, and a low cost laptop, but desktop performance (i7, i9, and Xeon classes) remains to be seen. Expect an intel refresh of the iMac, iMac Pro, and possibly Mac Pro before the transition to Apple Silicon for those machines in about two years.