Quiet day in during half-term? :confused:

It warms up when turned on and in use

as far as I'm aware, this isn't a review site. It's for hot deals which this undoubtably is.

No SSD? I'm guessing you can't upgrade it either? what a waste....

great with Retina screen

£400 off Apple price, No wallet, bad wallet, stay where you are, we need you for the steam sales !

Good price and fantastic 5K iMac.

Screen Resolution: 5120 x 2880 pixels. I'm not sure what I would do with a 5k screen, but you could spend the best part of £1000 just on the screen.

No SSD? I'm guessing you can't upgrade it either? what a waste....

can upgrade the ram but disk is tricky as they are sealed. Has plenty of io and thunderbolt for external HD.

No SSD orFusion according to the description. It is relatively easy to use an external drive though (thunderbolt connected preferably).

This is the price you'd pay for the 21" version, so has to be hot.

Old October 2014 model

It's an apple. Cold.

We've got a few of these at work and they have a 5400rpm disk, so slooooow by todays standards. We found performance is OK for general stuff, but anything disk intensive causes headaches, where machines were logging off and on a lot (we had them on reception desks where staff rotate), they would often lock up completely and require a hard boot. The newer models with SSD's are a massive improvement.

Unfortunately, as noted above, replacing the disks is nigh on impossible as they are sealed units.

On a more positive note, they handle the update to El Capitan nicely!

Great price. The lack of Fusion drive is a shame, though I still find their performance appalling compared to a proper SSD. Using the latest model in the office but the 5K display didn't blow me away, however the difference becomes very stark if you go back to the older 1440p/1200p models.

must..........not.........buy.......

is there a troll in here? Oh no it's my shadow.

£1000 for this junk, way overpriced.

Damn, just about to buy one of these but really wanted to get the Fusion version, now what do I do!! :smile:

For 1k you should at least get a i7 cpu inside, but because it's come with a 27'' 5k display i shut up :smirk:

Fanny magnets? :wink:

Very tempting but can't live with the 1tb internal drive always wanted one with the 3tb internal drive they do.

So it says:

"Items listed as "New" come with 12 months Currys/PC World Outlet warranty"

If it is really new, then it would come with an Apple 12 month warranty. Quite frankly, a Currys or PC World warranty is worthless toilet paper.

Nice find - unfortunately I can't justify spending a grand on something I don't really need :disappointed:

Plus the £3k visa bills wont pay themselves off...

Does anyone know the difference between this one (MF885B/A) and the one listed on Currys site currently (MK462B/A) I think it is?

Need a new business/design system asap (as in the next week!) and was about to order from Apple Education for £1362 but this is much better in value.

Also what is the cpu model in these all it lists is 4th gen i5. I want to know exactly which 4th gen i5 for a benchmark score.

Why are apple users so defensive? It's because deep down they know they are being ripped off.

Have one with fusion drive and it's awesome. But any computer without an ssd these days let alone one that costs over a grand is just a waste of time.

sold 4 in the past 1 hour! Impressed by the wealth of HotUkDealers!

New Manufacturer Sealed
There is an intact manufacturer's seal, and the item is brand new and pristine.
Some product boxes are unsealed as supplied by the manufacturer, these are still brand new, pristine, and listed as "New".
Items listed as "New" come with 12 months Currys/PC World Outlet warranty.

You should better spend the time to read some background information, instead of typing the above "statement".
Fact - Apple screen is premium, way better than the "much, much cheaper - and larger" 4k screens you were talking about.

folks, it's all gone now.

Was the 1tb fusion drive not the standard option? If so this should come with it (I think)

I have one of these with a 256gb ssd and m295x, bought it when it came out and paid much more than this! Top display and ideal for productivity

if you edit 4k video - the 5k makes a big difference (not just apple 5k). You can have the 4k image/video plus the tool bar for the editing all on screen

Op said "what a bargain" :confused:

I managed to bag one just as it rolled round to the last 2 available, should get it next week. So thanks OP, been looking for one at a decent price for the past fortnight and the best my own IT supplier could do was £1400 ish!! :smile:

I've thought long and hard over moving to Mac from over 30 years of PC use, but my whole system is Apple based now from iPhone to iPad so it makes sense to unify them all as my current PC system doesn't sync well with my phone etc which I need when out on business. Mine is purely for business (graphic/development/iOS Dev) so not too bothered about gaming, or anything else.

Need to start learning the new ways now. :wink:

Yeah I would be more interested in just the screen (in my opinion the best looking 5k one out) but would need the additional power

Screen might be good but the rest of the spec is appalling for the price. Plus the display is probably awful for Windows use so you'd be stuck with a lousy OS.

I'm viewing this on a 1920 x 1200 monitor, and the extra 120 vertical pixels makes a difference when viewing two A4 pages side by side. I'm rather tempted to upgrade to a 4K monitor, but I think that 5K is OTT for what I do. Pairing a 5K monitor with a so-so CPU and hard disk in a box that can't be upgraded .... I'll pass. But, for someone desperate for a 5K monitor, this is good value.

Surely, you have just voiced an opinion there?

Wouldn't buying a 5K monitor make viewing two A4 pages worse?

And is it even possible to use this as a monitor for a decent computer?

BTW, be advised that 4K screens are below 4K resolution and can't actually display a real 4K picture.

Wouldn't it make more sense to get a £800 5K 27" display and a £200 computer? Would be better than this and cheaper!

I use a 24" screen, and a 4K or 5K 27" screen ought to be better for viewing detailed documents. The problem is that windows isn't that brilliant at using the extra pixels. Or so I have heard, as I haven't tried using a 4K display on my system.

It wouldn't work, as you need a decent graphics card to drive a 5K monitor. A 4K monitor and a very decent PC is manageable.

Well obviously, my point is this site is to find deals which are cheaper than the norm, if someone has nothing constructive to add to a deal then don't bother. It's always the same when it comes to Apple/PC, Android/iPhone, Phones from china and car threads also.

The majority of people want to read through the thread to establish if it's a good deal not if someone likes the hardware, phone or car.

Well, I always also want to hear what the downsides are. I agree that reiterating the usual comments that Apple is overpriced is not helpful, but other comments can be very helpful: such as that this box can't be upgraded. I don't think it's rude to the OP to say things like that.

I meant that the aspect ratio wouldn't be nearly as good - it'll be shorter & wider at the same size. But going from 24 to 27 will probably cancel that out.

You really don't need a decent graphics card to run 5K. A radeon r7 will be way more than enough.

EDIT: I was running resolutions well over 1080p over 12 years ago on a GPU that certainly wasn't top of the range - if a crappy GPU can't cope with 4x the pixels 12 years after, something is seriously wrong.

Sure, the box can't be upgraded is fine, (although thunderbolt external SSD is possible). But the generic Apple is expensive (I can't afford it) / Android is better / iPhone is better is pointless and just trolling. Useful information for potential buyers is what is needed.

Typical nonsense from an iSheep. People who say "Apple is expensive" say it because they buy better devices that can do more, have far better build quality and give so much more choice and customization CHEAPER. It isn't because they can't afford it - it's because they've made a smart informed choice not just followed the crowds.

I do laugh at the arguments from PC lovers and I get it to some degree, mainly when I was younger.

I have spent my life buying the best IT and electrical hardware, always buying the top spec "just in case" you need to be able to modify it, use a particular feature etc etc.

When I was younger I used to worry so much about ensuring I had a system that could be tinkered with. And I'm no technophobe, I have built all of my past PC systems from the ground up and my current Windows system was built 13 years ago and has never failed me. It's only being changed now as XP is getting slower and slower and more insecure - I was reluctant to change it even when XP was phased out as it has always worked so well. I spent £1300 building this system in 2003 with all the best bits money could buy "just in case" I wanted to modify or upgrade it, and for all that expense the case has only ever been opened to clean it inside when the graphics card starts to fail due to dust!! :smile:

As I get older, I am not bothered about "tinkering", I want something that works out of the box so I can spend my free time with family and my kids and I need a system that can link with my iphone for when I am out and about without having to sync data through Outlook, iTunes etc.

I love PC's, Windows in particular I have always enjoyed, but I love Apple products equally as much and at this stage in my life this iMac will do me very well and for less than my current system cost.

Technology goes out of fashion so quickly that it doesn't matter what spec you get 12 months down the line.

I know a self built PC would be cheaper than this iMac, but the amount of time I would lose building it and sorting out issues would be greater than the financial value. A PC would also probably be faster on paper, but in real life 9-5 use it makes no difference, I'm coming from a Pentium 4 2.4 with XP here!! :wink:

Plus it's just a business expense where these days £1000 is relatively little, I used to pay more than that in office rent, rates and eleccy each month!! :smile:

If you actually read the comment I was referring to then you would understand the my comments relevance.

Better build quality that's questionable.
If someone wants an apple / iOS device and someone posts that a non apple / iOS device is cheaper then that doesn't really make any difference. The OP and subsequent people who got this deal wanted an iMac, posting that a PC is cheaper isn't an iMac. By your logic I could just post on every PC/Apple thread that a PiZero is better and cheaper.

There might be a group of people who 'just want a computer'. They might see a post about this imac getting hot and not realise that it's rather a specialised bargain. Do you really object to someone warning them?

True, if the "just want a computer" group are already looking that would suggest that they have that amount of money to spend and are happy to spend that much. It doesn't take much to scroll down the page and find a cheaper "computer" offer if they wish.

Better, cheaper, faster, smaller, bigger - they all mean nothing unless you know the context in which the system will be used and why someone wants to use them.

I cut my teeth on systems that were state of the art back in the 80's/90's, but would be outdone by a digital watch now. But they were fine at the time, and for anyone who "just wants a computer" an iMac would still be fine in whatever form it is.

On a common sense note, isn't the Dell 5k monitor priced at around £1000? So this is an equivalent monitor with a free computer. Clearly this is a hot deal?

I fully understood your comments relevance (or lack of). You just used it as an excuse to make a snide remark.

Better build quality - depends on brand, yes. Cheap chinese ones will be worse, but most brand-name phones have better build quality than an iPhone. I'm still using a 3 year old Galaxy Note 2 that has been dropped literally dozens of times really hard onto concrete and it's still perfect - can't say that with an iPhone!!!

"By your logic I could just post on every PC/Apple thread that a PiZero is better and cheaper." - No, you clearly don't understand logic. Can a PiZero do more than a PC? Is it essentially a better alternative? No.

Some people might come here because they specifically want a Mac (and usually have more money than sense) - but others will come here because they might want a 27" 5K computer. Many people on here won't know the restrictions of Apple devices or the fact that MacOS can run a tiny fraction of the programs a "PC" can run. People still even believe that Macs are better than PCs for CAD/CAM/graphics/etc when the advantage came from the RISC processor they used to use (but had it's own disadvantages). Since they switched to x86, that advantage no longer exists.

I do agree that there are two many trolls that come on just to say "Apple/Android sucks" or whatever. But there is a big difference between being a troll and pointing out that you can cheaper/better alternatives which may be a better fit for others.

I've had various iPhones since day 1 and dropped them plenty of times without any problems. I've had other phones as well that have been equally as strong, but I prefer using iOS on a phone.


I've spent quite a lot of time researching this and I've found equivelant or better programs for the Mac to replace the ones I was using on PC, so unless you are referring to something specialist, 99% of people buying a Mac will be fine. But then I haven't used it in anger yet so I am happy to eat humble pie on that one if I find an issue.

I also work in the graphics/dev industry and 95% of the colleagues I deal with on a daily basis use Macs so I'm not sure I agree with your comments on my industry, even developers are moving over to Macs now, especially for App developers.

I stand to be corrected though as i will be new to using a Mac and I'm sure I will find problems that need to be overcome.

I have used literally dozens if not hundreds of apps that do not have an equivalent on MacOS - admittedly, I am a power user but there is no way I could do what I want to do on it. Even Apple allow you to install Windows on it these days because they know Windows can do more.

The only reasons people use Macs for graphics are tradition and lack of knowledge. Look into it yourself if you don't believe me

The way I look at Apple vs PC/Android is:
- If you want a sophisticated device that can do everything at a reasonable cost, go PC/Android
- If you can only work one button, only need to do basic things, value looks above everything else and your wallet is weighing you down, definitely go Apple.

I will say though that Apple customer care is 2nd to none - I just find the devices too basic for my needs.

Love it - bought a Mac less than four hours ago and already got the superiority complex. :stuck_out_tongue:

They made it 5k so people working on 4k video have room to work on it at native resolution AND then have room for tools.

You have absolutely no idea do you... Hilarious

I was interested about these magnets you said but I just checked youtube on how to open these imacs (2012+) and they say the screens are glued to the chassis.
Ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qR8wv8RqX0

I only need a text editor, browser and a SQL editor to do my job so anything is ok with me, the fact that an iMac also syncs my mail, contacts, drive, calendar and photos with total ease is the winner for me. The cost doesn't matter if it does all of that.

People working on 4K video encoding at a level where they need to work at native resolution are not, in general, the people manipulating their videos with an i5 processor.

Wow! I put my hands up. I had no idea they got rid of the magnets. I've owned every iMac throughout the years and I have the 5k one at work. Just assumed they still had them because it's a great system.

You are clearly speaking for yourself. Which parts of my comment couldn't you understand?


Yeah, because Windows can't do any of that LMFAO.

hotttt

The drive kills this machine. My old macbook from 2010 with an ssd fitted boots quicker :disappointed: