Apple iMac MNDY2LL/A 21.5 Inch, 3.0GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Silver (Renewed), macOS High Sierra

For reference, my purchase is for mid-2017 4K i5 3.0Ghz 8Gb RAM model, at $409 US) Like many other reviewers, when purchasing 'Renewed', 'Refurbished', 'Restored' (insert your favorite term here), I did a lot of research on this and still entered the purchase with a degree of skepticism. After all, how can something previously used or abused arrive in pristine condition? Well, this skeptic is convinced. The iMac arrived well packaged, with power cord & peripherals as promised and looks absolutely stunning. It's like I bought a new product!! Screen is clean, sharp. No dings, dents or ANYTHING to indicate this is other than new. WOW! To address some of the comments I've read that resulted in reduced stars: 1. The seller text is very specific. You will likely receive a non-Apple keyboard and mouse, of varying qualities. Individual perceptions differ, so opinions are all over the board. But they work and are clean. Mine were wired vs wireless. Don't care either way. The system came up when they were attached. 2. Y-E-S. the device is slow. C'Mon guys. It has a 5400 rpm platter drive. What else would you expect? Is this a stopper? Absolutely not. Connect an external SSD, and either set that as the Startup Disk or press Option key on boot and select the external SSD to boot from. (I've read you need to ensure the drive is formatted as GUID). My plans is to get a Thunderbolt enclosure and a NVMe Pcie from Intel, 1Tb. Currently $45 & $87 US, respectively. Very cheap upgrade to go from 1 min 40 sec (approx) to 10-15 second boot time and improved zip with app launch and drive access times. As I read in many reviews, the display is crisp, bright and gorgeous. No eye strain. I'm running at 50% brightness. Detail is incredible! Initial attempts to connect an Apple wireless (Bluetooth) keyboard and trackpad, both gen 1, failed. Realized I had to shut them down like a PC -- hold power button for 10-15 seconds, then power on with a quick press. After that, no issues connecting. Wireless works great - all bars. Of course, distance from AP will dictate signal strength and internet response speed. 3. Many of the negative reviews are not about the operation or condition of the product, but focus primarily on 1 of 3 things - shipping damage or delivery, missing components or boot/operational issues. Taking these one at a time: - Shipping damage is beyond the control of the seller. Working with the shipper should resolve the complaint. - Missing components. Contact the seller. From what I've read, when this occurs, the seller is good to their word and supplies the missing items - Boot to black, boot issues in general, operational issues. Yes, it should reliably boot up. But before screaming too loudly, either reformat/reinstall the OS yourself or ask a techie friend to do this for you. I'm guessing that at least 8 times out of 10, this will fix the issue (from my experience with computers over 20+ years). Honestly, I don't think you can find a better deal for a quality iMac running 7th gen Intel i5 at 3.0Ghz, with discrete graphics. I am a light gamer and have yet to test this device thoroughly, but from lots of online reviews, I expect to be able to get between 25 to 60 fps when I don't push beyond medium graphics settings. Without huge graphics horsepower, ultra graphics settings are out. Apple does not advertise this as a Gamers computer. The only complaint I have is that I bought it for $409, and the next day, the 1 remaining device was advertised for $379. Today, I see 5 (?) devices available, and the price is $369. But in the overall scheme of things, even the price I paid is a great deal. So really, no complaints. One of the best deals I've made. I hope this review helps you make a decision. Good luck with your purchase!!

This is a great value for this price, but I was not able to use it for what I was planning (Laser Cutter / Engraver) because it does not recognize the machine through the USB port... I have several other machines that can communicate with the machine using the same cable, so it is not the cable. The mouse and keyboard are working, using the USB, but those might use a different channel than the Laser Cutter... Thought to keep it and use it for another project. And it is SLOW... VERY SLOW in almost every task I tried to do... missed the return window, but I should have returned...

Well I could not be happier with this computer. I just wanted an updated computer because my other desktop was a pc and old. There is not a single mark on this computer. It looks shiny and new and beautiful. It works great. It is fast. The graphics are unbelievable. I look at "pictures of the week on my CNN newsletter. The difference between this computer and my ipad, iphone, hp pc and laptop are phenomenal. The quality of the pictures is breathtaking. I love the size of the screen. I could not justify the cost of a new desktop. I'm extremely glad I got this one renewed. My brother and my son both put in new hard drives in their old computers. They paid more for their hard drives than I paid for a whole new computer, keyboard and mouse. I like the computer very much. It is perfect.

I ordered this iMac on Amazon to replace the iMac my parents were using. Their iMac's backlight went on it and since it was a 2012, wasn't going to be worth fixing. My Dad ended up passing away unexpectedly a few days before the computer issue, so the replacement would be used mostly by my Mom for email, occasional FaceTime and by my wife and me when we visited. So we didn't need anything too fancy for her. I thought a refurbished model might be a good way to go. I ordered the computer on a Monday. Expected delivery was to be the following Monday or Tuesday, but ended up receiving it already on Thursday. iMac was in good condition and booted up within 10-12 seconds. Had no issues with upgrading the software to the lates Mac OS, and then migrating all the files/folders etc... from the old iMac via Time Machine backup I had done on an external drive. Computer seems to be very fast and responsive and so far have no issues with it. The only problem I encountered was, after getting it all set up, I realized the hard drive was only 256GB, not the 1TB that was advertised. The RAM was actually 16GB instead of the 8GB RAM that was advertised, so that was a nice and unexpected bonus. I wasn't too concerned about the lesser hard drive space, as my Mom is not going to need it, but I contacted the seller anyway to find out what happened and see if they could give me a partial refund since I didn't get the iMac that was advertised. They were quick in responding to my concern and apologized. After sending them a couple screen shots showing them the hard drive space and serial number, they looked into it and again apologized for the computer not matching the advertised specs. They offered to refund me $75, which I thought was fair and agreed to it. The keyboard was a smaller, corded mac keyboard which was just fine, and the mouse that was included was a generic cordless mouse. I kept that as a spare one, and have my Mom use the corded mouse that they were using previously. All in all, a good purchase and am happy so far with the computer I got for my Mom.

I have been using this for a little over two weeks with no problems. It has been updated to macOS Ventura. 13.0. I made 1 upgrade that has really improved the performance. This mid-2017 iMac comes with two Thunderbolt 3 ports. I purchased an Acasis Thunderbolt 3 enclosure for use with a 1TB WD NVME SSD to use as an external boot drive using 1 of the TB3 ports. After restoring the internal iMac HDD drive to the external SSD I switched the iMac to boot from the external drive. Now boot times from power on to login take about 15 seconds not the 1 minute 45 seconds it took from the internal HDD. Using the Blackmagic Speed test the internal HDD was glacially slow consistently delivering read-write speeds of 97MBs. The external drive consistently delivers read-write speeds in the 2290MBs neighborhood. The memory is still 8 GB. I'll probably upgrade that before long.

The iMac arrived in pristine condition, and I was able to update it to the newest OS immediately (something I was worried about with and older Mac). there was nothing of note on the chassis. Of damage, the only thing I could mention external or otherwise is there was a small sticker on it, which I was able to easily peal off. The keyboard was brand new and the Magic Mouse seemed to be, if not new, very lightly used. Both were of the latest generation and Bluetooth. I know some other reviewers had problems with this company/product; and that almost turned me away in favor of a newer, more expensive, model; I am so glad I didn’t do this, the computer is fast, and I got a device which fits my needs perfectly at a drastically reduced price. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking to use it for normal use (I usually have 10+ windows open at once on my desktop and 10 times as many safari tabs and it doesn’t slow it down at all). Everyday use that is, if you use it in the conventional sense of the word (would not recommend for gamers, etc.) *NOTE: One thing that I wish someone had told me before I purchased this was that, IT CAN NOT BE USED AS AN EXTERNAL MONITOR, at least not without a $350+ device such as the Elgato 60s+. This would not have been a dealbreaker for me, and I would have still bought the device knowing this, but this could be a necessity for some users and a shortcoming which is not well advertised.

Computer looked great out of box. I have a 2012 version which runs great just getting old and I wanted something newer. This computer ran so slow right out of the box. I couldn't even log into my Apple ID. It takes 5 min or longer (mostly longer) for anything to open after clicked. I went through customer service multiple times, reinstalling, updating, resetting to factory defaults to no avail. Computer never ran better and couldn't do anything about it. I really disliked the return process, as I needed to wipe and completely reset to factory default even after deleting all my personal data. Took me 12 hours one day to just get it ready to return due to slow speed of this thing. I also was required to take a bunch of pictures to prove the product was not damaged, which is fine but again more time consuming. I also had to take a picture to prove I reset the thing and email it to the seller before returning. Hopefully seller is easy to work with. I will update this review with information on how helpful to seller was with the return process once completed.

Great product. Had two small dents that I wouldn’t have noticed if I didn’t actually inspect this like a paid quality inspector. For a little more money they could have thrown in a magic set of keyboard and mouse. I ended up getting an actual apple cord which was nice but the keyboard and mouse it came with were VERY cheaply made and did not fit what would have came in the original box. That being said it is listed in the description that you will most likely get aftermarket accessories so anyone who complains about this or gives a lower review because of it is about as useful as the aftermarket accessories I received. Also, I wanted to purchase a warranty with the product from Asurion but the one listed was for tablets. This was confusing and delayed my purchase a couple of days because I contacted asurion to validate this. This is not correct and according to them you need to purchase the desktop warranty. This is probably not a seller issue as amazon seems to go through third parties to source product, rather an amazon issue or algorithm issue that attached the wrong warranty. The packaging it came in was super protective. If I were buying another I would go this route.