Repair or buy a new one

[MarcoGT]

Hi all,

the display of my iMac 27" Late 2013 has pink/yellow/blue vertical lines; I brought to a Apple certified repair shop and a new displayed is needed; it will costs 800 Euro; the internal 5400rpm HDD is also failing and I am booting now from an external SSD USB3; I also upgraded the RAM from 8 to 24GB (16 would be enough).

I am thinking now to buy a new one, but the 21" which costs something like 300Euro less but I have i7 instead of i5 but I have to upgrade the RAM directly @Apple and not by myself.

What do you think about it?

 

[Ruggy]

It's definitely not worth spending that sort of money on. A machine of that age, anything could fail so you might fix it up and then the power adaptor goes, or the graphics card....
If you invest it in a new machine then not only is everything new, but everything will be slightly upgraded at least.
Faster modem probably faster USB ports, Bluetooth etc. The bus will be faster as will the RAM.

If you can get a screen cheaply and an SSD and do it yourself, then it might be worth it.
If it's all the money you have and you can't really afford a new one, then perhaps.
But no, don't spend $1000 on a 6 year old machine, invest it in a new one.
I can't tell you which one, if possible go to a shop and have a play. That's really the only way to know.

 

[MarcoGT]

I think I will get the 21" with i7 (not available on 27"), 256gb ssd and 16gb ram

 

[Fishrrman]

Not worth the cost of repair.
You might also consider the 2018 Mini.
Minis seem to be "the most reliable" of all Macs.

 

[MarcoGT]

I also thought about MacMini but I think from performance point of view it is a little bit worse than iMac 21