The point was that since the internals of the iMac are now standard parts (CPU, GPU, Chipset, HDD, SSD, ODD), some of us know that the parts used in the current machine are not worth what they once were--when the pricing was originally established for the currently available model.
This is why we have a problem buying a machine that is still using those older components at the same price we would have paid when it was first released over a year ago, regardless of whether or not it's still the "current" model or not.
Those who don't know any better naturally think the way you are. Apple can count on that to a certain degree as the chances of their users being technically savvy about what's actually inside their machine are much lower than a PC user who may have in fact built the machine themselves and know exactly what they should be paying for last years' technology.
Now the sad part for Apple is that they are finally making inroads into the technically savvy PC crowd, then they pull this garbage of trying to sell their new friends last years' crap which said group is well aware is not worth what they are charging when a new machine with updated internals is just around the corner (meaning sometime in the next few months).
Nobody in their right mind is going to buy the old model for full price, unless of course they have to have it for a business purpose in which case this entire discussion is moot.
If you MUST buy now, and you MUST have a Mac, then I assume it's for business purposes. If that's the case, you can stop reading these posts right now because that's not the kind of decision the rest of us are faced with right now.
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