Buy it

Follow up to my last entry on deciding if and when to buy a new iMac. I guess impatience outweighed procrastinating as I went ahead and ordered a refurbed 20" iMac last Tuesday from the Apple store. Free shipping was supposed to take 3-5 business days, so I was a little surprised that the iMac was delivered Friday morning. Set up was a breeze. Had to first move the old Blueberry iMac to a new, temporary location, then got the new machine up and running in maybe 10 minutes tops. In doing a little checking I found, to my surprise, that I was not sent the 20", 2.16 GHz, 250 GB hard drive that I ordered, but instead was sent a 20" with a 2.33 GHz processor and a 500 GB hard drive. A sweet, unexpected bonus.

Posted on: Mar 19, 2007

Posted by: trjfish

Category: Personal

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Posted by Jason on March 19, 2007 at 10:15 PM PDT #

I've been procrastinating over the same decision. Could you tell me what your perception of the "refurbished" status is now that you've got the iMac? I bought 2 Sony Vaio laptops for family abt 18 months ago that were advertised at the Sony Style store as refurbished but on enquiry they were actually undelivered & shipper returned units that were never opened by a customer. Nothing like a bargain, eh? Thx

Posted by Don on March 20, 2007 at 10:18 AM PDT #

Don, This is actually the second "refurbed" iMac I have purchased. Bought the first one, three or four years ago. In each case, it is hard for me to tell, whether or not these were ever used or were returns. There certainly were no physical signs of them being used, but I don't know what magic goes into reconditioning a computer. The only issue I ran into with the most recent purchase was that Apple sent me a Spanish version of the keyboard, which confused me and my family when we tried to use it and confused Apple even more when I tried to report it, to see if I could swap it for an English version. Apparently, many at Apple were unaware they even made a Spanish keyboard and thought I did not know what I was talking about. Once I spoke to the right person, I was able to get Apple to send me the correct keyboard, which got to me in 24 hours. Overall, I think the refurbs are a pretty good deal, unless there is something specific that you want to configure on your Mac. With the refurbs, you get whatever they send you, so if you want more memory, you either need to buy a new one and configure it with more memory, or plan on adding more memory yourself after getting your refurb model.

Posted by Tom Jenney on April 17, 2007 at 02:09 PM PDT #

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