Manufacturing 27" iMac

[JuniperS]

I know the 27" iMac was discontinued. Yet, I keep seeing them for sale as new at Best Buy, B&H, etc. Are the ones being sold "leftover" from March 2022 after Apple announced they would be discontinued? Or, are they newly manufactured using the 2020 technology?

 

[rm5]

I know the 27" iMac was discontinued. Yet, I keep seeing them for sale. Are the ones being sold "leftover" from 2022? Or, are they newly manufactured using the 2020 technology?

Depends. If you get it used on eBay or something, it's likely old. But some of those iMacs are probably new with 2020 parts. I don't know how many, but I'd bet a good portion of them are. I get that reasoning from Luke Miani with his 2017 iMac video from back a couple years ago, where the iMac had just been manufactured.

 

[Gudi]

Are the ones being sold "leftover" from 2022?

Probably! They likely produced way too many old iMacs from May 2021 till March 2022, when the 24" M1 iMac was already released and the 27" Intel iMac not yet discontinued.

 

[appltech]

the ones being sold "leftover" from March 2022

Thinking, Apple will conduct available ones to resales, dealers (so it would be their own headache), something similar to education programs.
The rest would be scrapped and recycled

 

[Nermal]

For a desktop computer with no battery (PRAM aside), does it really matter? There's nothing in there that should wear out; apart from the fans I don't think there are even any moving parts.