Lets see. It cost me $36 to bring it up to 12 GBs of memory - will never have to touch the memory again. The 500 GB harddrive will never be filled up. I would have preferred a 128 GB SSD only but that was not an option. Based on the past history of our home computers (starting with a 48KB Apple II with 2 floppy drives), we will most likely keep the system 5 years.
Ahhh cool... How could you call an iMac with 500Gb and 4Gb the RAM if it's not an old machine???
Retro-Vintage-Mac?