Apple iMac Retina 4K 21.5"

Functional, but slow – I have had this machine for over 12 months, bought brand new, has always functioned slower than my MacBookAir. Often needs to be restarted daily else it gets glitchy. otherwise is totally functioning for my purposes.  Show details

Worse apple product – Bought this iMac in August/2019 from JBHI- for nearly 2000$. From the first day it was very very slow. Done troubleshoot but couldn't fix the problems at that time. Now showing lines in display. Wastage of money for buying such garbage. Can't believe this is an apple product. Now tried to troubleshoot, apple said no warranty coverage. Definitely something is wrong with this unit. Using another Macbook pro over 6 years, still runs like new.

The worst iMac for your home – Ever since purchasing this in September 2020 it has been nothing but problems and heartache for me when I started using this when I moved into my own unit in March 2021 so I would avoid buying this model, Show details

They make the best iMac's – On Tuesday afternoon 28th January 2020 I got this from Apple as a replacement for my MacBook Pro 15" 2012 since somebody from Apple took it on Monday 27th January 2020. I spoke to somebody at the Apple Store in Doncaster on Tuesday morning 28th January 2020 and they couldn't solve the issue since I put Windows 10 Professional on it.

Should have purchased the most expensive 2019 model with more reliable 1TB Fusion drive – Up until recently we have had good experiences with Apple - over 12 years, including purchase of an iMac (2011) and later an iPad, both with Apple Care protection. In July 2019 we decided to upgrade to the mid range Apple IMac Retina 4K 21.5 inch model. The new computer had a 1TB hard drive, and had 2 problems namely (a) being extremely slow… Read more

with multiple apps open and (b) having an intermittent fault where it was impossible to wake the machine from sleep mode. We never had any similar problems with our 2011 IMac (which ran like a dream).

On the recommendation of the authorised repairer, we had the 1TB hard drive replaced with a solid state drive at a cost of over $400. The IMac is now working well as it should with the new solid state internal drive.

Despite having paid for Apple Care protection and the machine being only 2 months old, Apple refused to consider the computer's issues as significant or to meet the cost of any repair. Understandably our view of Apple is now less favourable.

With hindsight, we should have purchased the most expensive 2019 model which has the more reliable Fusion drive ($300 extra) or considered buying another company's desktop computer with a solid state internal drive. Lesson learnt!

love my new computer – recently purchased from jb hi fi and love it. worth every cent. I watch all my movies on the screen and its very clear and the operating system is very fast.

Amazing!! – Having only used windows based operating systems based computers I can see why Apple is better. Everything just works. The clarity of the 4k screen, the tactile perfection of the keyboard and smart mouse and the all in one system design with no clunky noises and fan noises coming from the box unlike a PC, make this worth paying the extra… Read more

dollars. Security is also better on a mac with less viruses and compromises than a PC. Ironically you can run Windows on a mac through bootcamp and is more stable than on a PC. So for all you gamers out there, yes, you can still run your games on a mac, but through Apple Mac bootcamp on a windows dual boot partition. However, a caveat, serious gamers would need the iMac pro with the Xeon processor (a stella CPU that is found in Servers), but serious gamers won't buy a Mac anyway because for the same price of a Pro, they could build a PC system for half of what a Mac costs with their own fancy GPU setup.

This product is perfect, using it for daily use – I bought my iMac sometime ago, however, it is still performing as before, it is always at optimum performance and never fail my daily operation. I will definitely purchase another iMac if this broken down in future.