Buying a Mac from Costco ?

[andrewc]

My current iMac is 12 years old , it still does everything I need, but won't run their latest ios & the screen is showing noticeable image burn.    I'm edging towards the idea of getting a new one before Brexit tanks the pound & everything imported from the US costs more. 


The mid range of their current offerings is £1999.0       I can buy it through my employers discount scheme for £1879 or from Costco for £1840 with a 2 year warranty thrown in. 


Any reason not to go for the Costco deal ?    Has anyone  had dealings with their service dept for electronic stuff ?

[grams]

You can take it to an Apple Store for service whatever happens.

(apart from a deadly pandemic lockdown, obvs)

[Jaded]

You should be able to check an Apple serial number online, for when they (Apple) think it's first year warranty runs out. However I guess you won't get a serial number until you get a machine. If it is a same spec machine as found on the Apple website, I can't see you'd go far wrong.

Bear in mind that a new machine will be running Catalina, and you probably cannot roll back to a previous OSX. Which means that 32bit software won't work. I'd check the software that you use regularly, or the is mission critical, to make sure it will run in Catalina.

[andrewc]

The only thing I'd be concerned about is Aperture,  which I've never stopped using.  Unsupported now,  but there is a hack to make it work on Catalina.


https://petapixel.com/2019/10/29/this-app-lets-you-use-apples-aperture-photo-editor-on-macos-catalina/

[Jaded]

And I can confirm that it works...

[andrewc]

Annoyingly they've not had the built in DVD drive for ages, so some of the saving will go towards one of those.   I don't have a TV so use it for watching stuff on as well.