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2021 Apple iMac (24-inch, Apple M1 chip with 8‑core CPU and 8‑core GPU, 8GB RAM, 512GB) - Blue At Amazon $1700 — https://tinyurl.com/rvmmzrbb This one gets some negative reviews that are worth reading. That make interesting reading, such as incompatibly with favorite Apple programs. Dead machines too (lol)
Dell FHD 15.6” -— $323 yesterday -—today $342 https://tinyurl.com/3tv2xww5 with 11th Gen i3 and 8gb ram
With the new screening and prescreening of all content for anything Apple and the government want to review, including your backups, iMessages, photos, and notepads, my family has stopped all our Apple purchases.
The new requirements went in a month ago even for people on the older OS, retroactively.
We will wait for a good degoogled phone and are switching to Signal over iMessage and are pulling all content off iCloud.
You wanted a cheap PC and you got one. No one not desperate would buy a Mac from Amazon - from where many used, broken, and damaged ‘new’ items are shipped.
Go to an Apple store for what they offer. Not Amazon!
Viewing this on iPad Pro M1 11”. What can I say. As I was telling a friend this is the best computing device I have ever owned, laptops and desktop pc’s included. The thing is blazing fast. My chief complaint in the past used to be jittery video rendering, especially 4K . This is butter smooth. With the companion keyboard it has effectively replaced my (non work) laptop.
Had to install a new java vm to get some nonsense program to run...
I have an M1 MacBook Pro and an M1 Mac Mini, both with 16 GB. I use both in a very serious manner as a software engineer. They are excellent machines, with the caveat that some (usually much older) apps will not run (most Intel-based apps run just fine), and you will not be able to virtualize Windows in the traditional manner. Battery life on the MacBook Pro is astounding.
I can only comment on the Macbook Air M1. I bought mine just before Christmas, 2020.
It is amazingly fast, light, and the battery life is simply OUTSTANDING. I had a Dell for work, and that thing was a POS. I used my Mac for everything I could. I paid $899 education pricing. I plan on having it for many years.
Best part, no fans. The thing never even gets warm.
Also, check Apples REfurb store. They warranty refurbs the same as new. you can usually save a couple of hundred dollars.
For extremely high-demand high-volume high-price brands, buy ONLY from the manufacturer’s store or (if you can’t) an absolutely respectable retailer.
Too many are trying to sell old/obsolete/damaged/rebuilt models on Amazon, and doing everything they can to look respectable when they’re not.
If you want a discount on Apple gear, go to https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished - you know Apple has correctly fixed anything wrong with a used device, the discounts are meaningful, and result is arguably a _better_ device, as each has individually been examined and fixed, getting the device past the “out of the box” malfunction risk stage. I’ve bought Apple refurbished several times, worked perfectly for many years.
I’ve bought two M1 MacBook Airs, they work perfectly. Just plug it in at night, and should run all day unplugged. Planning to buy 2 more for personal use, want to upgrade 2 work machines to M1 MB Pros (alas, just got previous models), hoping to get a 27” M1 iMac as well. Good stuff.
Intel must be terrified.
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MacBook Pro M1, 13in, 2020. Best laptop yet from Apple.
iPad Pro 11in with magnetic Apple Pencil. Use it mainly as a drawing pad. Works very well.
iPhone 13 Pro Max. Got this a few weeks ago and so far love it.
Rest of the family have Apple iPhones and iPads or laptops.
I’ve bought iPads, new and used, through Amazon and Apple laptops from Other World Computing for friends who can’t quite afford Apple refurbs.
I bought a new MacAir last January and it works great, went Apple on everything in the last couple of years, IPad, Nano IPod, Apple Watch and I have had a Phone for several years. Everything is integrated on all systems and works great.
The best part, I don’t have to use Microsoft and Windows anything and have those updates cause so many problems. Say what you want Apple’s things, and OS are pretty seamless.
FYI.
(Hope you are getting along okay. God be with you.)
When will the new M2 chip be out?
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I bought a new Mini M1 early this year and absolutely love it, it super fast and the only way you can make out heat up is to set it on fire.
Its warm to the touch but that is all there heat you feel from it.