Buy brand new iMac June 2024

[Spladang 83]

Hello. if I buy one brand new iMac Sonoma in June 2024 here in Sweden, Why Appledealer provide me with old one from 2021. I ask them to let me have one from the same year as i order the computer 2024, but they refuse to help me with this. Brand new iMac must be better than old one?

 

[galad]

If you are buying the 2021 model, it will be a 2021 model. There isn't a newer model yet. You can't buy a 2024 model, there isn't one yet.

 

[Spladang 83]

If you are buying the 2021 model, it will be a 2021 model. There isn't a newer model yet. You can't buy a 2024 model, there isn't one yet.

Sorry, You dont understand me. My iMac i have today i bought maj 2018 but the iMac was made 2017. Thats the reason why I vondering if the same vill happen next year in june- august when i going to order a new iMac sonora if I get one made in beginning of 2024. or late 2023 or even 2021.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

If Apple has released a new machine you will get that one, if not you will get the 2021 model since there aren't any other made.

 

[Spladang 83]

Thanks for your reply. But isent that unfare to byers as need to accept old stuff when advertising telling us something els. Thats big difference between 2021 and 2024
My iMac i bougt in 2018 ar to old for Sonoma. Why. He was made in 2017 (I havent asking for old version when i made my order. So what happen next time when my new iMac from 2021 I ordered 2024 ar already to old one year later.

 

[ewu]

that is why people are waiting for a new hardware release, rather than buying a old version.

 

[Spladang 83]

Sorry, I dont talking abouth that. App-Store-dealer offer the latest version of iMac, you can even go inside and try the machine. That must mean I can buy one there and take with me and be sure that modell ar made same year or year before and not 2021. 3 year old iMac ar not a new iMac. Same time you can se new version att App-Store or App-Dealer you dont need to wait for new hardware releas. To solve the problem stop selling older hardware same day you can se the new machine at the dealersshop.

 

[Mike Boreham]

As others are explaining it has long been normal to describe Macs with the year of introduction of the model not the year it was sold. The latest iMac is the “2021 iMac”, to distinguish it from the previous models. A “2021 iMac’ model will always be “2021 iMac” whether bought new in 2021 or 2024.

See screenshot from excellent MacTracker app for example:

 

[Spladang 83]

Thanks Mike Boreham for helping. But I feel thats a big cheating from Apple. If Apple have given me my iMac I bought March 2018, I have today october 2023 been in the list for versions for Sonoma, but Apple refuse my iMac to be in the list becaus my iMac ar to old from (2017) Thats nothing but cheating.

 

[bob_zz123]

Sorry but how is it cheating? You bought your Mac in 2018, at the time the 2017 model was the latest available. They could not have given you anything newer as it didn't exist.

The upgrade eligibility for Sonoma is based on the model. It is not based on when you buy your computer. That simply makes no logical sense - how could it? Just because you bought it in 2018 how could Apple magically create a version of Sonoma that works on your specific computer even though it is a 2017 model. That would be equally unfair to people who bought their 2017 model in 2017.

 

[Mike Boreham]

I am having trouble understanding your viewpoint. Can't see any way it could be called cheating.

Your third screenshot supports the point I am making. The "About" section shows the model by year of introduction of that model not year of purchase. Same on my Macs.

 

[Spladang 83]

Everyone as bying new produkts expecting to get the latest modell as already exist in the shop If I going to cardealer to buy latest modell, he vill not try to sell old stuff. as brand new, If he try, no one vill come to that dealer any more. Dont try to tell me Apple dont produce iMac:s every mounths and year. So if I order iMac year 2023 I expecting to get one made that year. Thats cheating, becaus there is not mention wich year the ar from when you look att the list.

 

[galad]

The iMac produced in 2023 will be exactly the same as the iMac produced in 2021, because there has been no change to its configuration. It won't make any difference if it was produced and assembled in 2021 or 2023.
However, I doubt there is any 2021 or 2022 iMac unsold out there.

 

[Spladang 83]

Yes. Thats the stupid thing. You and I know Apples factories all over the world produce iMacs every day, every year, so iMac.s made 2023 ar that one you supose to get when you order one 2023.
The only benefits I have if my iMac vas made in 2018 insteadt of 2017 have to do with sonoma. Apple don let my iMac from 2017 use Sonoma. To old. I havent ask for old iMac. if Apple have provide me with iMac from 2018 I could use Sonoma. (Nothing but blindfolded cheting from Apple.)

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

The iMac you buy in 2023 is the EXACT same computer as the one you would have bought in 2021. There is NO difference. Production date doesn't matter because these things are exactly the same.

And no, since there was no 2018 iMac, you wouldn't be able to run Sonoma, even if you bought an iMac in 2018.

You are trying very hard not to understand how basic design and production in the corporate world works. If Apple had to update their iMac every 6 months to suit your thinking, the price would be twice as high, since they would have to change components and production lines again and again.

 

[Spladang 83]

The iMac you buy in 2023 is the EXACT same computer as the one you would have bought in 2021. There is NO difference. Production date doesn't matter because these things are exactly the same.

And no, since there was no 2018 iMac, you wouldn't be able to run Sonoma, even if you bought an iMac in 2018.

You are trying very hard not to understand how basic design and production in the corporate world works.

You dont ider understand what I try to say. If you try to find out everything abouth Sonoma, they say iMacs from 2017 ar to old. But I bought my iMac 2018, but Apple ignore that. We end this tread here and now. Thanks.

 

[Mike Boreham]

if Apple have provide me with iMac from 2018 I could use Sonoma.

This is wrong on two counts as we have been trying to explain. This is not how it works....it is different from cars.

1. Apple lists which Macs are compatible with Sonoma by year of model introduction, not year of manufacture.

2. You would need an iMac introduced in 2019 to support Sonoma.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

You dont ider understand what I try to say. If you try to find out everything abouth Sonoma, they say iMacs from 2017 ar to old. But I bought my iMac 2018, but Apple ignore that. We end this tread here and now. Thanks.

No, I get what you say just fine, and what you are saying is straight out wrong. As has been repeated again and again to you, no 2018 iMac would ever run Sonoma, and Apple is not ignoring anything - You are.