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Lionel Mandrake

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9. I'm leaning toward the iMac Pro
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 03:18 PM
Jan 2018

I'm beginning to think that a new model is more valuable because it's new. The iMac Pro is expensive, but it's also new, which means it will be supported longer than either the current iMac or the current Mac Pro, which have been on the market for a few years. Once Apple stops supporting a model, that model becomes nearly worthless. An Apple rep told me their policy is that 5 years is plenty long to keep a computer.

Suppose Apple sells a particular model for 3 years, and then discontinues it. Five years after that, they stop supporting it. Then the effective lifetime of that model, when new, is 8 years. That's what I'm guessing is the case for the iMac Pro.

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