The Average Lifetime of an iMac?

Rich --
I think I saw that same statement, and as far as I'm concerned, that is totally wrong.
My old flat panel iMac (the iLamp) is still going strong 10 years later.
My next oldest is 4 years old with absolutely no problems.
My husband's is 3, again with no problems.

Personally, I love them!

However, I happened to run across a statement that someone made saying that the average life of an iMac is only three years. I was wondering how true this is because three years is not a long time.

I'm sure if I looked hard enough on the Internet I could find someone that posts gold is lying in the streets free to be picked up, complete with pictures and testimonials. 🙂 However that doesn't make it true.

What you read is someone's opinion, the information you are seeking simply is not available. This is a user to user forum so all you will get is opinions on this. My iMac is 3 years old this month and works as well today as it did the day I got it. If you read on these forums about problems and come to the conclusions Macs have problems that would not accurately reflect the vast majority of Mac owners in the world. IMHO the statement you read is hogwash and has no credibility.

I would be extremely confident about buy any new iMac and having it last many years, as long as the machine is cared for the way Apple recommends there is no reason to doubt it wouldn't last.

Roger

Rich: I suspect you'd get a lot more responses by posting your question in the appropriate iMac forum for the model you're considering. This is a MacBook Pro forum.

I think if yo do buy the iMac, you'll be delightfully surprised at the way it runs rings around your antique high-end machines.

Message was edited by: eww

Nah.
No intensity of heat here.
(By the way, that remark was made here, right)

Let us know what you think when you get that baby home.
I thought I was in heaven.

Congratulations and well done. I'm sure when you get your new machine home you will have many years of enjoyable use.

Roger

Difficult question. Maybe a good way to look at this is to see how long AppleCare is willing to extend the warranty on the product, and at what cost increment.

AppleCare extends the original warranty to three years from the original date of purchase and also provides 3 years of telephone support. It can ONLY be purchased once. IMHO it's a wise thing to get, while I haven't haven't had to have my machine repaired I've used the phone support on numerous occasions to get questions answered so I think my money was well spent.

One piece of advice if the OP does decide to get AppleCare don't buy it directly from Apple, you can find it for less on Amazon.

Roger

rkaufmann87 wrote:
One piece of advice if the OP does decide to get AppleCare don't buy it directly from Apple, you can find it for less on Amazon.

That is some money saving advice I was not aware of. Looks like can save about $75. Thanks.

Welcome.

I have a friend that is still using his imac DV for browsing and email. Its like 8 years old at least.
He keeps waiting for the next version of the imac to come out because his DV is still working and useful for his needs.