New iMac

[stefcep2]

Macs may or may not hold value well, but they certainly hold UP very well. I had an iBook last four tough Iraq deployments whereas PCs were dying left and right. My friends that had Macs were in similar situations to me.

Well even if the hardware survives, Apple will make a door stop out of it soon enough.  often well before the hardware's useful life.

I'm running Win 8 on a circa 2006 Portege M400 with a Core Duo and 2 Gb ram.  It flies.  I do everything on it-net, email, office, media playback, youtube, streaming etc

I doubt any circa 2006 Apple product can even run a current we browser.

PC for me all the way.

[stefcep2]

If you don't like it don't buy it but don't write that those who bought Mac are idiots.
I've a Mac laptop from 2008 and I haven't had any issues with it software and HW wise since. I bought my wife a VAIO in 2009, the motherboard has been changed twice, the DVD drive once, and the trackpad twice too. Now it has a problem with the power adaptor so she barely use it and it was just 200euros less that the Mac with half the RAM.

Kamelito

That 2008 laptop- does Apple still support it with its current OS?

Because history shows they kill hardware by not supporting in the OS, then so do the web browsers, and in the internet age, you now have a door stop made of fully functioning hardware.

Planned obsolescence.