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M1 iMac Configurations and Pricing Breakdown
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The Samsung 980 Pro runs circles around these, nearly saturating PCIe 4.0 and cost less than half price.
Facts.
Yep, just like everything Apple sells. I thought I would update my 2 year old Dell AIO computer for an iMac, but adding a $100 m.2 ssd fixed my frustrations with it, recently.
I hope you truly realize what you just wrote. If a company KNOWS that anyone who is serious about keeping their product a long time they will for sure gouge the consumer on upgrades. That's business. No company is your friend, and frankly if you were running a big company and knew what your customers NEEDED you would do the same. It's just the sad truth about business.
Will this redesign likely prevent dust from getting into the display like it used to on the intel design?
So you are saying apple products have been overpriced for 3 decades?
Meme pricing his only a recent phenomenon under tim cook and his obsession with higher margins
Most products released under Steve Jobs was reasonably priced and justified the premium if you compared them to the competition.
current M1 macbook air starting from 999 is amazing value for money
same with the mac mini, ipads etc but 1299 starting price for the imac is overpriced and does not justify its over inflated price in any way
yes the imac should've started at 999/1099 price point, at 1299 you are entering a price range where 8gb ram , 256gb storage , 2 usb4 ports and no ethernet port is outrageous.
Why is apples pricing so schizophrenic? Base apple watches , ipads, macbook airs, minis are great value for money but then you have meme'tastic 999 stands 699 wheels
I'll be going for the "high end" model, in silver, with 16gb of RAM.
The redesigned iMac with the M1 chip is available in three different base configurations that users can upgrade with Build-to-Order options for their specific needs. The new 24-inch iMac starts at $1,299, but it can reach $2,628 through Build-to-Order options.
There are three standard configuration 24-inch iMac models available from Apple:
- $1,299 - Apple M1 chip with 8-Core CPU and 7-Core GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports, and Magic Keyboard.
- $1,499 - Apple M1 chip with 8-Core CPU and 8-Core GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports and two USB 3 ports, gigabit ethernet, and Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
- $1,699 - Apple M1 chip with 8-Core CPU and 8-Core GPU, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports and two USB 3 ports, gigabit ethernet, and Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
Build to Order Options
Entry-level 24-inch iMac with 256GB of storage:
- 16GB RAM - +$200
- 512GB SSD - +$200
- 1TB SSD - +$400
- Gigabit Ethernet - +$30
Mid-level 24-inch iMac with 256GB of storage:
- 16GB RAM - +$200
- 512GB SSD - +$200
- 1TB SSD - +$400
- 2TB SSD - +$800
High-end 24-inch iMac with 512GB of storage:
- 16GB RAM - +$200
- 1TB SSD - +$200
- 2TB SSD - +$600
Color-Matched Accessory Options
All M1 iMac configurations come with a color-matched Magic Mouse as standard, but users can opt to upgrade to the Magic Trackpad, or purchase both the Magic Mouse and the Magic Trackpad together.
- Magic Trackpad - +$50
- Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad - +$129
Apple also notes that it is possible to upgrade from the standard Magic Keyboard with the entry-level iMac to the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID. All base configurations will also offer the option of upgrading to the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad, but it is not yet clear how much these keyboard upgrades will cost.
The M1 iMac will be available to pre-order on Friday, April 30, and will begin arriving to customers in the second half of May.
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I'll also get the keyboard with numerical keypad.
with limit ram, it swaps too much data from ram to SSD.
That is why lots of news said SSD life is much shorter in M1 mac.
as a developer, I want 64GB ram, at least 32GB ram for work.
but until now Apple still only provides 16GB ram for M1 mac.
How can anyone speak of the SSD life, when the M1 has only been around for a few months?
It's speculation.
Which is slow as mud compared to most Apple SSD speeds (read speeds around 3300 for M1 MBP)
Yeah, if there had been more than 16GB of RAM available for these, i woulda ditched my M1 Macbook Air.
You mean the Jony Ive who designed those awful 2016-2019 MacBook Pro's with the butterfly keyboard and ESC key built into the Touch Bar? That Jony Ive?I miss Jony Ive.
Slightly off the topic. The brain fart this morning is will the next iPhone have the seemingly system wide M1 chip with USB-C and 2 TB ram?
I'm looking at my 08 iMac on the other desk and it DOES have the Apple logo on the "chin".
It's the most you can get, so there's no "wowser" about it.
Keep working on your humour ...
Totally agree with this point. Tim Cook tried doing the same with iPhones in 2017 for a couple of years and their own sales slowed down, until they released iPhone 11 with acceptable pricing and value. They seem to be trying the same rotten technique with iMacs now. I don't mind paying a lot for a machine that can stick with me for a long time, I own a 27" 5K iMac and I bought it precisely so I can add RAM later and use it for a while. This new garbage they announced is not something I would be ok upgrading to. I guess my current iMac puts me into the upcoming iMac Pro (or whatever they call it) category, I am just not happy with the limitations they have added onto this new design. And knowing Apple, the Pro iMacs will be based on this garbage.