What Are the Benefits of Buying a 2020 iMac Over Newer Models?

Question

What are the reasons I should choose a 2020 iMac over the newest series of iMacs?

Answer 1

The iMac 2020 has some advantages compared to the newer iMac models. One of the advantages is the larger 5K display, which is also of higher quality. Memory and storage can be upgraded at a reasonable price, which is one of the advantages of this product. There are a lot of ports on the device including USB-A, Thunderbolt, an SD card reader and Ethernet. The device is shipped with a keyboard and mouse too which makes it a complete package. Furthermore, if you are ok with using something like OpenCore, it may be possible to increase the soft support for the iMac in the years to come. Nowadays the iMac can be found at a very reasonable price; just wait for a discount and you will get very good value for what many iMacs are offering.

Comments

I have a 12 year old iMac 27" that's been flawless all these years - now I can't update the OS, so I've been looking at all the options. I wanted to get another iMac 27" but disappointed the new ones offered are just 24".  I really appreciate your content saying it's still worth getting the 2020 27" because after days of trying to wrap my head around which mac mini, which monitor, an external cd drive, and external storage drive, etc my head is spinning.  My question is:  Over time I have upgraded my current iMac 27" with a 2 Tb drive and upped to 8 gb RAM (installed myself).  Are those compatible with the 2020 27"?  I.E. can I take it to my computer guru and have them swapped into a 2020 27" if I go that route?   Thanks so much!!

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I saw that deal on Amazon this morning and pulled the trigger on it, $1069 is a nice deal and the savings will pay for the RAM.  Sold by Woot who is owned by Amazon, less than 4:45 left on the deal at the time of this comment.

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THE ANSWER IS YAY

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Too bad, this is the most powerful Intel Mac. The day it’s no longer supported, OpenCore Legacy won’t work because macOS will run exclusively on ARM, with no way to make it work on x86.

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hi buddy, thanks for the content! i have this iMac and i love it, but im not sure about the speed of the USB-A ports. I've a QNAP TR-002 that has a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (10GBps), if i connect this unit to my iMAC to one of the USB-A port, will i get less speed than if i connect it to a USB-C thunderbolt? thanks!