What it the best choice between 2014 and 2015 iMac ?

[pshufd]

This is the system. There's another similar system in my area asking $1,000. It has 24 GB of RAM. I am somewhat surprised at the wide range of asking prices for Macs in general. What I do know is that if the Mac is priced right, it will be gone in an hour. This more expensive system has been sitting for 20 days.

There's a 2015 i5 system with 24 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD for $1,399 too. My seller is selling this model for $750 but it has a 1 TB Fusion drive and 16 GB of RAM. This system was posted five days ago but I expect it to not sell unless the seller lowers the price.


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The listed specs were wrong. It has a 500 GB SSD instead of a 1 TB Fusion Drive. She offered to cancel the deal or change it. I said it was fine either way. I got it home, hooked up KM and this thing is gorgeous. I need to figure out which operating system I want to put on it. Options are Mojave, Big Sur and Monterey. I'm leaning towards Big Sur at the moment.

 

[EugW]

The listed specs were wrong. It has a 500 GB SSD instead of a 1 TB Fusion Drive. She offered to cancel the deal or change it. I said it was fine either way. I got it home, hooked up KM and this thing is gorgeous. I need to figure out which operating system I want to put on it. Options are Mojave, Big Sur and Monterey. I'm leaning towards Big Sur at the moment.

Since it doesn't officially support Monterey, I'd suggest Big Sur at this time.

OTOH, the feature that my wife and kid notice the most with their new Macs this year is the animated Memoji user icon, which is only part of Monterey. I also am happy to FINALLY have the convert image Finder command with Monterey. However, truth be told, overall Big Sur is quite close in usability. Plus there are still some annoying bugs in Monterey.

 

[pshufd]

Since it doesn't officially support Monterey, I'd suggest Big Sur at this time.

OTOH, the feature that my wife and kid notice the most with their new Macs this year is the animated Memoji user icon, which is only part of Monterey. I also am happy to FINALLY have the convert image Finder command with Monterey. However, truth be told, overall Big Sur is quite close in usability. Plus there are still some annoying bugs in Monterey.

I know about the annoying bugs as I have an M1 PRO MacBook Pro 16. Rebooting fixes them though. I usually reboot every four or five days. I would be definitely interested whenever Universal Remote comes out. I'm using Synergy KM to do the same thing but there are likely benefits to using the native Apple product.

 

[pshufd]

I watched a YouTube video on the 2014 iMac and the back is stone cold. Time to build a bootable installer flash drive for Big Sur.