Was it stupid of me to buy this iMac new at full retail price when a 16GB shared 2TB SSD fully loaded new M1 iMac 24in was $700 less in price still?

[MarkC426]

Who is he trying to impress......?

 

[avz]

I guess this is what they mean when they say “the decline of the western civilisation”.

 

[GrumpyCoder]

Who is he trying to impress......?

Well, he managed to shock me with total lack of knowledge, common sense and absence of grammar.
Impressed? Errr, nope.

 

[jagolden]

I don't think we should be chastising OP for his purchase.

Dude this comment is extremely insensitive and condescending. No need to be rude.

If he didn’t want the answer, he shouldn’t have asked the question. Unless I completely misread his original post, I feel my answer reflects his self questioning fairly well.

 

[Jantelagen]

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[Yebubbleman]

This is the system I bought without knowing what I was doing really. I just wanted a new computer real real bad. What can I do with this system so that it gets used at least? If anyone dare mentions mine crypto I’ll never visit this forum again after today.

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This is the system I bought without knowing what I was doing really. I just wanted a new computer real real bad. What can I do with this system so that it gets used at least? If anyone dare mentions mine crypto I’ll never visit this forum again after today.

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Play Computer Games; run Virtual Machines, edit together a movie or a tv show. That's a powerful computer.

It's also a very Apples and Oranges comparison to the M1 that you refer to in the title of your post. That iMac is probably the best an Intel Mac will get; whereas that M1 iMac will serve many of the same functions, but certainly not all of them.