Best Buy Delivers $200 Price Cut To Already Discounted 27-Inch 5K Retina iMac

Just this past Tuesday, Apple updated two if its high-end PC product lines: the 15-inch MacBook Pro and the 27-inch 5K Retina iMac. The developments surrounding the 5K iMac were perhaps the most interesting, as Apple lopped off $500 off the price of entry for the base model, taking it to a respectable $1,999 (with slightly reduced specs). The ranging-topping model saw its price fall by $200 to $2,299.

Now just mere days after Apple made its big price cuts, Best Buy is coming along with an additional price cut of its own. The range-topping model that we mentioned has be reduced to just $2,099 over on Best Buy’s website, making it just $100 more than a base model.

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That price will get you a 27-inch 5120x2800 display, a fourth generation 3.5GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, an AMD Radeon R9 M290X discrete graphics card, and a 1TB Apple Fusion Drive.

Some may think that $2,099 is still too much to pay for an all-in-one machine, but consider this: the Dell Ultra HD 5K Monitor UP2715K 27-inch monitor alone will set you back $1,979 from Amazon (it still costs $2,499 if you order direct from Dell). For just over a hundred bucks more, you can have a fully functional 5K monitor and a computer. That sounds like a great deal to me.

Brandon Hill

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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