Is $450 a good price for a 2017 iMac 27 inch?

[daica]

My friend is offering to sell me his iMac 2017 with 1TB Fusion Drive, 8Gb of ram for $450.
Is that a good deal? I'm guessing the video card is the factory one and is not an upgrade.

27" iMac (Retina 5K, Mid 2017) / 3.4 GHz Core i5 / MNE92LL/A

EDIT:
Reason why I'm asking is because he have sold me stuff in the past before but then some other friends would say that I got ripped off.
I've also gotten really good deals from him before as well.
Lastly, I dont know prices of Macs

 

[Fishrrman]

The 1tb fusion drive is "the weak point".

Otherwise, is the overall condition good?
You want to see it boot up -- MAKE SURE there is no "firmware password" installed ! If there is, make him REMOVE IT first.

 

[daica]

The 1tb fusion drive is "the weak point".

Otherwise, is the overall condition good?
You want to see it boot up -- MAKE SURE there is no "firmware password" installed ! If there is, make him REMOVE IT first.

Would I be okay with sticking with the 1tb fusion? or should I replace it with an SSD? I only have a 256gb laying around.
The computer is in good condition.

Also, according to this link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455
I would only know if I start from recovery right?

 

[rpmurray]

You would also want to make sure he'd unlinked the iMac from his iCloud account by turning off Find My Mac. The exterior kcoditon of the iMac is a very important determiner of its value. If it has scratches, dings, dent, nicks, cracked or chipped glass in the display, then that will negatively affect what you could expect to get for it when reselling.

If the CPU is the 4.2 GHz, and the GPU is the Radeon Pro 580 8GB, then that's a very good price, although the Fusion drive will be a bottleneck. Replacement with an SSD is a bit difficult unless you've ever opened one of these thinner iMacs before, since you'll have to basically disassemble the whole thing to get to the back of the logic board where the SSD is seated.

 

[daica]

You would also want to make sure he'd unlinked the iMac from his iCloud account by turning off Find My Mac. The exterior kcoditon of the iMac is a very important determiner of its value. If it has scratches, dings, dent, nicks, cracked or chipped glass in the display, then that will negatively affect what you could expect to get for it when reselling.

If the CPU is the 4.2 GHz, and the GPU is the Radeon Pro 580 8GB, then that's a very good price, although the Fusion drive will be a bottleneck. Replacement with an SSD is a bit difficult unless you've ever opened one of these thinner iMacs before, since you'll have to basically disassemble the whole thing to get to the back of the logic board where the SSD is seated.

The CPU is actually 3.4 GHz and 4GB GPU.
The Model number is: c02x33t7j1gg

 

[Fishrrman]

You could put the SSD you have into a USB3 enclosure.
Then connect it to the iMac and set it up to be "the new boot drive".

 

[pshufd]

It's an okay deal. You'd need to add an external SSD ($80) and it would be nice to have 16 GB of RAM ($50).

I bought a 2014 iMac 27 with i7, 500 GB SSD, 4 GB GPU and 16 GB of RAM in 2021 for $500 and the i7 on the 2014 beats the i5 on the 2017.

27 inch iMacs are falling fast in my area. There's a 2013 i5 27 inch in my area for $200 and a 2011 i5 for $100. I've seen 2019-2020 models under $1,000 too. One of the downsides to Intel iMacs with Hard Disk Drives is the amount of heat that they put out and running an Apple Silicon Mac next to an Intel iMac demonstrates that well. The biggest benefit, though, is the screen. A good 4k 27 inch monitor is about $500 so you're getting a great screen and a free computer.

 

[zarmanto]

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

You've got your fish in front of you, seasoned and ready to eat; to wit, the responses herein all seem good and helpful. For future reference, here is one way to catch that fish yourself:

Go to eBay, search for (in this case) "2017 iMac" and filter the results using the tools on the page. This will get you close... but not all the way there. Next what you want to do is scroll down to close to the bottom of the list of filters, and under the "Show only" category, select "Sold items". This will tell you what people have actually paid for similar items. It's perfect for comparison shopping, and for getting an idea of how much you should consider paying for that item yourself.

 

[daica]

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

You've got your fish in front of you, seasoned and ready to eat; to wit, the responses herein all seem good and helpful. For future reference, here is one way to catch that fish yourself:

Go to eBay, search for (in this case) "2017 iMac" and filter the results using the tools on the page. This will get you close... but not all the way there. Next what you want to do is scroll down to close to the bottom of the list of filters, and under the "Show only" category, select "Sold items". This will tell you what people have actually paid for similar items. It's perfect for comparison shopping, and for getting an idea of how much you should consider paying for that item yourself.

Thanks for the tip! I practice what you taught and it seems like I got a good price.
Next thing I would like to do is upgrade the CPU/RAM and SSD/HDD in this iMac to get some more life and use out of it.
Going to apply the same teachings to find a decent price.
Really appreciate it