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How much will the 2017 iMac cost?

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Canadia69

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so I'm starting to put some money away to buy a new iMac and I was wondering how much I should expect the price to be...I remember when I first bought my redesigned 21.5 inch iMac in 2012, it cost bellow 1500$ (Don't remember exact price)...but after seeing the prices on the new MacBook pros, I'm starting to think there will be a price increase...

I want a 27inch and right now, the cheapest 27inch with 5k display costs 1,799 (US)....Do you think the new 2017 ones will have the same price or will they be more expensive (like the mb pros)?
 
Canadia69 said:
so I'm starting to put some money away to buy a new iMac and I was wondering how much I should expect the price to be...I remember when I first bought my redesigned 21.5 inch iMac in 2012, it cost bellow 1500$ (Don't remember exact price)...but after seeing the prices on the new MacBook pros, I'm starting to think there will be a price increase...

I want a 27inch and right now, the cheapest 27inch with 5k display costs 1,799 (US)....Do you think the new 2017 ones will have the same price or will they be more expensive (like the mb pros)?
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How much ya got?
 
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Canadia69 said:
....I want a 27inch and right now, the cheapest 27inch with 5k display costs 1,799 (US)....Do you think the new 2017 ones will have the same price or will they be more expensive (like the mb pros)?
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I'm on my fourth iMac....I don't recall the exact prices I paid but my impression is that the prices didn't change all that much from new model release to the next new model release.

I'd say find the price of the current model you'd buy and add a small cushion of a hundred or two.

The problem is that Apple will probably add some new features to a more expensive model and you'll decide it's really what you want!
 
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Contrary to popular belief, computers don't get cheaper over time. The market generates Dollar amounts that people are willing to pay for computers of different kinds and classes, and that is how much they cost.

In the case of Apple, the market seems to be telling them that people are willing to spend more money on a computer today than a couple of years ago. Thus the pricing of the new MacBook Pro models.
 
BeechFlyer said:
Contrary to popular belief, computers don't get cheaper over time. The market generates Dollar amounts that people are willing to pay for computers of different kinds and classes, and that is how much they cost.

In the case of Apple, the market seems to be telling them that people are willing to spend more money on a computer today than a couple of years ago. Thus the pricing of the new MacBook Pro models.
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I would disagree with this as the effect of exchange rates has a massive effect on price comparison. I would suggest that they are definitely cheaper though as the prices have stayed similar overall to 10 - 15 years ago but wages have increased.

For me, all Apple products are now twice as affordable than they were 12 years ago, but in $$ amount they are the same.
 
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Canadia69 said:
so I'm starting to put some money away to buy a new iMac and I was wondering how much I should expect the price to be...I remember when I first bought my redesigned 21.5 inch iMac in 2012, it cost bellow 1500$ (Don't remember exact price)...but after seeing the prices on the new MacBook pros, I'm starting to think there will be a price increase...
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The MB Pros added the Touch Bar which is probably expensive. So I would expect the iMac to stay close in price, especially as they have lowered the price of SSD upgrades. But it will really depend on what Apple pays for the new Intel CPUs and chipsets and AMD GPUs. If they're appreciably pricier than what they're paying now, then we will see an increase.
 
CWallace said:
The MB Pros added the Touch Bar which is probably expensive. So I would expect the iMac to stay close in price, especially as they have lowered the price of SSD upgrades. But it will really depend on what Apple pays for the new Intel CPUs and chipsets and AMD GPUs. If they're appreciably pricier than what they're paying now, then we will see an increase.
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Don't you think they may add a touch bar to an iMac???
 
Canadia69 said:
Don't you think they may add a touch bar to an iMac???
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On the wired [currently out of date] keyboard maybe.
Definitely not on the chassis of the computer. If they did this, i would be really amazed.

I must say I would probably get the wired keyboard if it got updated as I need to use the number pad and the current magic keyboard is slightly annoying. Love it otherwise!

It would be super useful to have a wired USB C keyboard with additional ports to the side, thinking about it. I used to use those a lot........
 
Canadia69 said:
Do you think the new 2017 ones will have the same price or will they be more expensive (like the mb pros)?
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I would count on a higher price, and if that isn't the case you have extra money saved, if it is the case, then you're all set if you prepared for the higher cost.
 
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richinaus said:
On the wired [currently out of date] keyboard maybe.
Definitely not on the chassis of the computer. If they did this, i would be really amazed.

I must say I would probably get the wired keyboard if it got updated as I need to use the number pad and the current magic keyboard is slightly annoying. Love it otherwise!

It would be super useful to have a wired USB C keyboard with additional ports to the side, thinking about it. I used to use those a lot........
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Hmm...I didn't think that having a touch bar on a Bluetooth (or new type of wireless technology) keyboard would be so hard but I think your right ..it would make more sense on a wired one
 
I don't see the touchbar happening on the new iMac.

1. The touchbar most likely won't be placed on the chin of the iMac, because of obvious reasons
2. The touchbar can't be placed on the keyboard because of multiple reasons:
  • the touchbar draws too much power for a single usb port. A single usb 2.0 port can only output 500 and usb 3.0 900mA.
  • the touchbar includes touchID on the MBP. How will touchID be incorporated on an external keyboard via USB? How secure will this be? Won't be an easy task I reckon.
 
Canadia69 said:
so I'm starting to put some money away to buy a new iMac and I was wondering how much I should expect the price to be...I remember when I first bought my redesigned 21.5 inch iMac in 2012, it cost bellow 1500$ (Don't remember exact price)...but after seeing the prices on the new MacBook pros, I'm starting to think there will be a price increase...

I want a 27inch and right now, the cheapest 27inch with 5k display costs 1,799 (US)....Do you think the new 2017 ones will have the same price or will they be more expensive (like the mb pros)?
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I didn't know that they were gonna make imac 2017.
 
Fishrrman said:
Question:
"How much will the 2017 iMac cost?"

Answer:
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It's possible but not that likely, outside of exchange rate adjustments. They actually dropped the 5K imac price after the first generation. I suspect the macbook pro will drop off again too. While they may have been initially constrained, it won't sell terribly well at that price forever.

Canadia69 said:
Don't you think they may add a touch bar to an iMac???
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Probably not. It would be a stupid feature there. The display on a desktop is positioned differently, and anything that makes you look down at that keyboard is a bad design.
 
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If there is a redesign and new technology is included, like the Touch Bar and Touch ID, i can see Apple increasing prices of the new iMac's. However if they are just slight processor and graphic updates, they will probably remain the same price points and they wont appear at any Apple event, they will probably just get a small press release.
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Koudspeel said:
I don't see the touchbar happening on the new iMac.

1. The touchbar most likely won't be placed on the chin of the iMac, because of obvious reasons
2. The touchbar can't be placed on the keyboard because of multiple reasons:
  • the touchbar draws too much power for a single usb port. A single usb 2.0 port can only output 500 and usb 3.0 900mA.
  • the touchbar includes touchID on the MBP. How will touchID be incorporated on an external keyboard via USB? How secure will this be? Won't be an easy task I reckon.
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Apple likes to put a new technology on all of it's products eventually, Touch ID started on the iPhone 5S, it is now on iPad's and the new MacBook Pro's. My guess is that they will include it on the other machines and iMac's eventually, the same will probably happen with the Touch Bar (obviously it's a technology for Mac's so it wont appear on iPads and or iPhones)
 
if a redesign will be made, then will cost probably 200$ more, if no redesign, than 100-200$ less
 
Obligatorily 2017’s basic model will include at least 512 GB SSD, and probably RAM will not be upgradeable, starting from 16GB maybe?. All that would imply an increase with respect to the IMac late 2015 of between 500-1000€, according to the configuration chosen in these two aspects.


I don’t think it includes touchbar or touch Id, mainly for a security issue, I don’t see the implement of this technology in a peripheral keyboard. But let’s imagine that they include it, then we would have to add about 500€ more.


So we are talking about a computer that could be 1500€ more expensive than the current one and with very similar performance.
 
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Hmm...I didn't think that having a touch bar on a Bluetooth (or new type of wireless technology) keyboard would be so hard but I think your right ..it would make more sense on a wired one
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Assuming it has Touch ID, I would think there'd be security concerns with a bluetooth option. Battery concerns, too. I'm sure Apple could pull it off, but I bet the cost of the product would be astronomical.
 
Glockworkorange said:
Assuming it has Touch ID, I would think there'd be security concerns with a bluetooth option. Battery concerns, too. I'm sure Apple could pull it off, but I bet the cost of the product would be astronomical.
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I do think Apple are working on it, even if it won't be ready yet. They have a tendency to put a feature in a one product, like Touch ID was in the iPhone 5S and then move it to others, like the iPad and now the new MacBook Pro's.
 
An arm, a leg, and if you want anything faster than a 5400 rpm hard drive, your soul as well...


j/k, but I doubt it will be cheaper, so just take current prices as a rough guide. They might be generous and make SSDs standard this time, but I also doubt that.
 
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