All imacs on sale. Three colors for $997. Limited stock. Looks like mostly QLD stores
Apple iMac 24" M1 8-Core CPU, 7-Core GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD $997 (RRP $1999) + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ The School Locker
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It's an apple. They can do everything with 8gb
Yea correct, as long as not anything graphic/gaming or anything intense. 70% of people don't need more than 8gb with M1.
[citation needed]
[citation needed]
Not really. If you think you need more than 8GB, you are more than welcome to go out and pay more for it.
I used to spend a lot time on this sort of stuff, and I know from experience of dealing with thousands of users that it's probably closer to 90% of people don't need more than that. Some do, most don't The '8gB iS nOt EnOuGh' crowd never seem to grasp that not everyone is a 'power user'.
Not really
He asks you for a citation and your response is "not really".
You Apple fanboys are something else LOL
@jasonxc: "Citation Needed" - I run a chain of businesses, and have my staff on about 20 different Apple macs of various vintages, most with 8GB ram doing the usual internet, email, word, excel, RDC etc and the only issues I ever seem to get is the +10 year old machines that are on OLD intel silicon. I am our IT department, so I have a pretty clear idea of how they run, and I find it baffling how power users just cannot understand that most people are not rendering 3D models, cutting multicam 8K footage or have 127 pro level apps open at once.
Most people are just using mail, word docs and browsing the web most of the time.
If you are the type of person that knows that they need more than 8GB of ram, then you probably do. If you don't know, then you probably don't (*on M1 or newer apple silicon machines)
@dtpearson: It's all well and good to say you don't need more than 8GB of ram, but then explain why you aren't just buying Dell or Lenovo Business computers with the same specs at less than half the price. That's exactly what a smart business would do.
No, the M1 chip doesn't justify the ridiculous premium. The main advantage they have over the x86 platform is power efficiency at low load, which makes sense on a laptop, but not so much on a desktop or AIO connected to the wall.
buying Dell or Lenovo Business computers with the same specs at less than half the price. That's exactly what a smart business would do.
Tell that to all the small and big companies that I worked for throwing MBPs at the employees. Yeah, they're seemingly burning money not listening to you.
You are really in a bubble and don't realise what's outside it.
@pizzaguy: Notice how you're completely unable to explain in any technical detail the rationale for why it makes sense to buy iMacs. You have zero idea, fanboy.
He asks you for a citation and your response is "not really".
No because if you read the very next line, it explains why. Reading fail.
You Apple fanboys are something else LOL
I never mentioned Apple. Reading fail
this is an outright lie. M2 Mini here and running Arc, Discord, Spotify and Teams, then opening something like OrcaSlicer will absolutely grind my mac down to a screech. 8GB is not enough for the Electron shitty apps we have these days. Do not get an 8GB computer, please.
@jupy: Opening Oraceslicer or you mean rendering a 3D print to start printing? If the latter, that’s for anything. It puts my 4070ti to work rendering big prints.
@jupy: I have an M1 Mini 8gb and i can use the following at the same time with no buffering
RE-AMP playing music
Firefox with 3 browsers
Chrome on private window FULL Screen volume off
MSN, ICQ, Messenger, whatsapp, line, kik
more like as long as you don’t use anything outside of microsoft word you don’t need more than 8gb
@viper8548: Well, Tbf that is probably 90% of the population. Word, email, videoconferencing and browsing.
And I don’t think Apple users are heavy chrome users. Son8 GB is plenty. My father for example, never taxes his MBA.That said, Apple users paying the Apple premium should get 16GB.
Says who?
people say that about iPhones and their low memory amount compared to Androids
in reality, my company iPhone 12 is constantly restarting apps when I switch back to them due to low memory…. and no I dont have 50 tabs on my browser, usually 3-4, plus Teams and perhaps reddit
Noting a phone's architecture, incl. memory management works too different to compare that.
Loosely related but not quite relevant: from what I've observed, my friends on Android (and some on iphones) have that habit of carpet-closing apps in the background, which indicates they believe the need to free resources.
@pizzaguy: nah, likely because he's used to / has a compulsion to do that - also, it's easy to do that on Android - just one swipe - instead of having to do all individual apps like on iOS
any decent Android phone nowadays will have 8GB+ of memory
at the end of the day, iOS and Android are bot *nix systems, and there's no memory management in hell that will give you the same performance at 4GB that a similar system with twice as much memory has. The same applies to MacOS vs Windows if properly managed (which is not the case on Windows for the most part). And I say that as a *nix/Windows administrator.
nah, likely because he's used to / has a compulsion to do that
That's why I said they believe they need ;)
I have never had that happen to any of my recent iPhones (12 mini, 13 mini).
Can't even upgrade it. Nor the storage to boot! I wouldn't be buying this for my kids if you plan to use it past year 7 of school.
What do you think kids do at school that needs more than that?
Roblox is quiet resource intensive
Even primary school students are creating and processing videos these days.
@Awesomandy: I've been creating and processing videos on base-level iMacs for decades. Helped set up editing systems at an AppleCentre in 1999. Single-core processors that usually had between 256-512MB RAM because not many people needed (or could afford) 1GB. Worked in a creative studio for a few years and people were producing TV segments on lime green or tangerine iMacs.
This new 8 core iMac is a beast in comparison. 8GB doesn't sound like a lot, but it's probably enough for most people as long as they don't use Chrome.
Macs have far better memory management and they're not wasting CPU cycles and RAM collecting telemetry, downloading Candy Crush in the background, running virus scans, and trying to show ads in menus like Windows.
@Awesomandy: I bought the base Mac mini for uni for my IT degree, it ran just fine and now it sits in the living room as a HTPC. Your kids will be fine mate.
@thesmartone1125: I used to say something similar as well, until I saw first hand how intense things can get in schools these days. I also know of a primary school (public school) that has a BYOD program for only Apple hardware, and they advise parents to get the most ram/hdd they can afford. Thankfully, not all schools are heading down this path but there are students who will find a 8/256 setup (or a similar 16/512 windows system) to be inadequate.
@Awesomandy: My kids school has a BYOD program but is platform agnostic.
The most common laptop is easily the base MBA according to its IT.
Funnily enough, the biggest problem the place has is boys with heavy gaming laptops needing to be charged. So not fit for purpose.
You can if your dosdude.
+1 dor dosdude!
I'd like to have dosdude as a neighbour.
there is a prebuild that has 16gb of ram but looks like they don't sell it.
Wow that's the same as my secondhand $5 iMac late 2009. How times haven't changed
For your general users that just want to send emails and browse the internet 8GB is fine on macOS. I know schools that still give staff 8GB and it works fine for them since they are really only use office applications and web.
For that usage 8GB on Windows is more than enough.
If "8GB is fine", then buy an 8GB AIO for 1/8th of this "discounted" price.
It's a decorative item for your home / office, internal ram doesn't matter 😬
Seems a great price for a kids pc to pair with existing iPad / iphone
Can you use the M1 iMac as an external display monitor?
no
No.
edit: beaten by 10 seconds.
No.
edit: beaten by 21 minutes and 21 minutes plus 10 seconds.
You can using the genki shadowcast 2.
But be wary of lag.
https://www.genkithings.com/products/shadowcast-2?_pos=2&_fi…
You can use a Luna Display dongle to use an iMac as a display.
https://astropad.com/blog/step-by-step-guide-how-to-use-your…It's not a perfect solution though. You do need to load up the app on the iMac each time (so you'll need some kind of input device), and it struggles a bit with motion (it's effectively a video stream, so high motion like games or video will see it drop frames and resolution). Works fine if you're throwing static content on it though (I do it at work with an older Intel iMac 5K, and stick my email, calendar and Teams on there, plus any documents I need to reference while working on my main screen)
Bought a blue one, shipping is $26 which is expensive, but seems like a great display
Back in 2003 the AppleCentre I worked at was making only $50 profit on each base model $999 iMac. 5% margin. Most retailers rely on absolute minimum 20-30% margins to break even after cost of business.
We'd sometimes spend an hour on a Sunday talking to the customer trying to figure out what they needed, then they'd try to haggle some free shipping. An hour of double-time-and-a-half retail staff pay was around $50, so if we spent $25 on a courier we'd be losing money on each sale.
It was worth it though because almost every customer came back a week or so later to tell us how thrilled they were with their new iMac, and bought hundreds of dollars of accessories, training lessons etc.
I miss those times when computers were fun. They're basically whitegoods now, the magic is gone.
Think I signed a non-disclosure clause a couple of decades ago stating I couldn't discuss any Apple related costs with the public. Hope Tim Apple doesn't do what Boeing does to their whistleblowers…
I worked in retail a few years after this and mark up was 5% for iPods at the time too. They were by far the lowest margin product but absolutely must carry and were constantly selling out over holiday season.
Magic era for me was probably Windows 95 into 98 with the advent of the internet. That was also before a computer was a purely a means for business productivity for me!
Try posting a 24" PC and tell me how much you have to pay for shipping within Australia.
Apple gear only has a 5% margin for retailers, the lowest of any electronics.
Thanks OP, got a blue one shipped for $997~ + shipping. I couldn't figure out the difference between that model and the $1600 one?
just 1 gpu core
Also the 7 core GPU model only has 2 TB3/USB-C ports whereas the 8 core GPU model has 2 TB3/USB-C ports and 2 USB-C ports. The 8 core version also shipped standard with Ethernet support whereas this was optional on the 7 core model. I'm not 100% sure you can buy the required power supply separately after the fact, it may have only been available as a configure to order item.
It's cheap but might be better just to buy a Mac mini and seperate LCD screen. At least you can use the screen for something else as well
It might be hard to find a screen of the same quality which also has good speakers and a web cam for the difference between this deal and the cost of Mac mini. Less cables is a plus as well.
Nah, it's not hard at all. Rtings confirmed even the highest end Apple displays don't measure well compared to displays half the price.
At first I didn't disagree here and, out out of curiosity, I looked for that "confirmation". Guess what - Rtings never reviewed it. So it's just more inflammatory, foul BS coming from a random hater who hasn't had a chance to work on an imac. Source: see all their comments here which are heavily opinionated, yet have little-to-no basis.
There's no other screen of this resolution and quality you'd get for such money. Look up "Apple iMac M1 review".
Can't add blue or green to cart; insufficient quantity available
Pity. The green ones are obviously more eco-friendly
Lucky I paid via PayPal if they don’t ship I will get my money back quicker from PayPal
What do people in the know think of this deal: APPLE MACBOOK AIR 13.3INCH M1/8GB/256GB SSD - SPACE GREY (2020)
https://theschoollocker.com.au/apple-macbook-air-13-inch-spa…
Was looking for a laptop for a bit of music and video editing and general home office use. Opening up a can of worms, but are there better performing non-mac laptops in the same price range?Cheers in advance
It should be $897 like the Gold one.
Great laptop for the price.
I would go up to minimum 16GB.
My mac mini struggles with photoshop & one browser with something like facebook opened up.
You'll find that you'll be constantly closing programs to run within limits.
Avoid limited stock items, I ordered a magic keyboard back in April which was a great price but I still don't have it delivered and I tried emailing them multiple times with no response. Buy at your own risk.
And no refund either?
I eventually got mine after a few months by repeatedly messaging them on Facebook. They respond to that, even if they're not able to action refunds themselves.
Do a chargeback
yeah buyer beware looks more like a sku error and they don't have stock anymore.
Yeah, people are trusting Harvey Norman here. Never a good idea.
Are these new, or refurb
If it doesn't say refurb, second-hand or pre-loved, you should assume new. Rule of thumb.
OOS
and thats why we will never 16 ram as entry level
I ordered the blue ones,Thanks !
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is the 8gb RAM upgradedable DIY? any advise?
No
Placed an order yesterday but just sent an email to request for cancellation, couldn’t find a use, already have good gaming desktop and laptop so hopefully they can still cancel to save some money
Can't even make the good battery life argument for this because it's not a laptop.
$1000 for a computer with a 5 year old CPU and 8gb ram, and the Apple fanbase thinks it's a "bargain". Outrageous.And people who have never used a mac IRL still need to show how they feel superior or something, despite living in some staunchy bubble and overtrusting their failing intuition.
It has a 3.5 yo CPU which outperforms lots of other $1000+ gear. Not to mention it comes with a decent built-in screen and the general build quality of this machine. Like, show us something better, please. Especially to people who actually have to work in macos, because they do other stuff than playing games.
Unless you do, your neg is meraly an opinion of little value.
You couldn't be any more of a fanboy if you tried.
"Show us something better"
People could (and have) pointed out how a computer with double the ram, double the performance, a far better screen with HDR for less money qualifies as "better". Alas, feeble Apple fanboys like you are programmed to discard the objective advantages of superior hardware in favor of arbitrary, subjective preferences like preferring MacOS or something stupid. Because hey, when you're just using your 8GB memory computer for emails and casual web browsing, clearly choice of OS must be a big factor.Stop giving people your awful, awful advice.
Someone: I need a new mac for work, because my work requires it, because the software, the company, the everything I can't skip.
jasonxc: You're a stupid fanboy for needing a mac for work!¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Let's keep in mind the enterprise-level advice from that rando called @jasonxc :D
Once you spend some more time on the webs, you'll notice how calling everyone names with little undestanding is not enriching any debate.
@pizzaguy: Notice how you're not even specifying the software.
The argument from you pro-8GB ram Apple fanboys is always "but most people don't need more than 8GB. They are only doing emails, web browsing and word processing (likely on Word, a native Windows app)".
Of course you could cite something like Logic or Final Cut, but then suddenly 8GB ram starts to become extremely questionable, especially for the outrageous price Apple charge.Most businesses source computers like Dell, Lenovo and HP computers for a reason. You might live in fantasy land where 8GB Macs drive the business world, but in reality they are vanity products for people like yourself who don't know any better. This is especially the case for something like an iMac, which can't even leverage the main advantage of Apple silicon.
@jasonxc: You just don't get it - if a company hiring 100s of devs uses macs, it's not because they hate your ass. It's because it calculates well.
Yes, the hardware is 2x the price - or whatever multiplier you think here, it's surely an unthinkable price difference minding your sweet home setup. But that price difference usually equals 1, 2, 3, let's even say 5 hours of a specialist's work (yes, there are people making such dough working for someone!) and having that specialist's workflow halted even once because of some cheaply implemented gear with "superior CPU" inside, or because of some Windows antics is not worth the risk.
Yeah, your bubble might be using all the dells, lenovos, acers or whatever have you - because of reasons like: it's a stalwart corporation that's always been using those, or because most of the external software/system requiring it (see governmental, financial etc), or because they're just a small cheap company, or because you all need to play Warzone or something.
Like, what's your point explaining to me I don't need the machine I've been using professionally for years? Even if I wanted to change it, I can't really. What do I tell at work? That an aspiring evangelist convinced me on OzB? There wouldn't be a better reason, really :D
And you're throwing your negs and "fanboys" around like you've been paid to do so by the local PC repair shop.
@pizzaguy: More worthless, vague nonsense about "specialist's work", yet you're completely and utterly incapable of explaining anything in detail. One moment it's just "emails and web browsing" and now we're supposed to believe there is some kind of Apple-exclusive specialist work that can be done on 8GB of ram.
Look champ, you have no idea what you're talking about, and have no idea what actually drives the business world. You're an Apple fanboy, swallow your pride and move on.
@jasonxc: Oh man. I never mentioned "emails and web browsing". You're confusing people who feed your hatred here.
Why I am choosing not to disclose any of my personal details? Perhaps those examples so desired by yourself are going to be too revealing.
Why aren't you capable of understanding that there's a world beyond your comfortable PC desk? - hell knows.
Sent from my expensive, company-provided-so-yes-I-haven't-spent-a-dime-on-it, worry-free and extremely efficient mac computer. Hayia!
They are back in stock. As I was looking the price has been updated to 1,499.25
Anyone got email for pick up for shipment?
Mine has been shipped thanks!
8GB is not enough, Apple can tell us that all they like, I did it last year and never again, I sold it and switched up to 16GB and it made a huge performance difference, particularly with multi-tasking across various apps.
If others find 8GB enough, that's fine, it sure didn't work effectively for me.why would you buy an 8GB ram desktop computer in this day and age?
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8GB?