Refurbished iMac 24-inch 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme $1899 FREE Shipping!

[Harbourmaster]

Refurbished iMac 24-inch 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme

This is the Current Generation Aluminum iMac.

Limited Time Special Price $1899
24-inch glossy widescreen display
2GB memory
500GB hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory
Built-in iSight Camera

• Save 18% off the original price

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/We...=FB322LL/A

[miK.]

I am eyeing that same deal... although I would rather spring for a Pro after
my tax refund gets here. Those 24's sure are purty tho.

[anonymouse1]

Umm, haven't those been up for a while?

[jdc]

[quote anonymouse1]Umm, haven't those been up for a while?
$2052 after tax isnt bad

[jawg]

"Limited Time Special Price"---Will the price be even lower after the new Penryn based iMacs are released next week?

[Blankity Blank]

[quote jdc][quote anonymouse1]Umm, haven't those been up for a while?
$2052 after tax isnt bad It isn't, but $2199 for a quad core 2.8 Mac Pro from Macconnection is where my money would go. Only $147 more and a whole lot more giddy-up and expandability for the dollar.

But let's face, I wouldn't exactly be in tears if I had either one. Heck, I still have lots of love for my DP 1.8Ghz G5 Powermac. :-)

[jdc]

true -- if you need that -- but then add $700+ for a nice 24" monitor

and the imacs are near 90% as fast as the towers

i got rid of my G5 towers for AL iMacs -- their performance is amazing, and with FW 800 drives, fast storage is easy

i figure i will spend $1700 now for a 24" imac that might last 4 years, then $1700 then for another 4 years, etc -- rather than $3400 now on something that has to last 8 years...

[Blankity Blank]

[quote jdc]true -- if you need that -- but then add $700+ for a nice 24" monitor

and the imacs are near 90% as fast as the towers I already have a nice monitor set-up so that saves me a nice stack of cash . The 2.8 iMac, while no slouch, takes a pretty good kicking even from the 4 core 2.8Ghz tower in an early test over on Barefeats. But a lot of that depends on what kind of things you want to do. For me, the tower shines in a lot more places than the iMac.

[OWC Larry]

Wonder if new models on the horizon.

We had just purchased some of the 2.4GHz refurb MacBook Pros - Apple was nice enough to give us $450 back per with the new 2.4GHz models costing $100 less than the refurbs were.

That said - the refurbs are faster with their 4MB of Shared L2 Cache vs. the new $1999 2.4GHz that has only 3MB of shared. Makes a real world difference.

Now the $2499 base new MacBook Pro has 6MB of L3 cache as well as the 512MB VRAM...

Anyway... iMac updates can't be far off.