Apple iMac 21.5" Intel i5 1TB Desktops Price: $789.99 - 889.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard OR $10 Two-Day OR $20 One-Day Shipping Estimates: Ships in 1-2 business days (Thursday, Dec 14 to Friday, Dec 15) + transit Condition: Factory Reconditioned
Actually the 6200 is a beast with around a teraflop of power…Can play Prey at 1080p on low…But terrible drivers and a few weird design decisions hamstring it in most games.
It still does better than the 750m though, which is closer to a desktop 740 and could not drive 4k happily.
I recently asked an Apple rep about RAM upgrade, he said:
iMac 2015 model, and Apple Memory (RAM) in iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015), and iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015) is not upgradeable.
My question:
Who refurbs these machines? I thought only Apple stood behind “Apple certified” or in other words, refurb machines bought directly through Apple.
Actually no. I work for Apple, our refurbs come with a years warranty and you can buy Apple Care. Factory reconditioned means it was just reconditioned in a factory. We do not refurb and let third parties resell.
This has a 1-year Apple warranty and you can find out more on how to contact them in the Features section. You can also contact Woot CS for assistance as well.
Say what you will about Apple, but we bought one of these 21.5" iMacs for our kids for Christmas 2010 (i3 w/4GB RAM, 1TB HDD). Seven years later it’s still going strong and is completely sufficient for their needs. I’m considering buying one of these just because I feel bad making my kids use a seven year old computer…
Thanks for updates. New question:
Really, isn’t 2013 too old, or will become too old too soon? Wouldn’t even a new base-level from Apple still have more power? What do you love about the 2013?
The older one can be upgraded, but it’s difficult. You need to remove the display and logic board to access the SO-DIMM slots. Having said that, Macs are very ram efficient. Unless you know you need more ram for image/video processing, you aren’t likely to run into issues.
The newer one isn’t upgradable, as the ram is soldered.