Apple 2017 iMac with Intel Core i5, 21.5-inch, 8GB RAM, 1TB Storage
$257.00 is an ordinary price for this.
The middle price across the 20 days we have watched it, counting the days a limited-time deal was running, was $257.00. It has held a price as low as $247.00, so there is room to wait if the timing is yours to choose.
This describes the prices we recorded. It is not a forecast of where this one goes next.
Price at AmazonVerified
Apple last updated the iMac in October 2024, 24 months ago; its last 7 releases came about 18 months apart. That is already longer than its usual gap. This listing is the 2017 model. Release dates from the MacRumors Buyer’s Guide.
Price history
One line: the best price any tracked retailer charged, per day.
Price set by a third-party seller, not the retailer itself
sales rank — the line rises as it sells moreShaded stretches are sales, from our calendar.
| Price | Now | Lowest | Highest | Usual | Average | Days recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renewed | $257.00 | $247.00 on Sep 24 | $299.00 on Sep 30 | $257.00 | $260.34 | 20 |
Sales events
Next on the calendar: Black Friday, November 27. We keep checking this price through it and report here what it did.
What our record shows
- $10.00 more than the $247.00 it cost on September 30 — this price went up, not down.
Computed from our own checks at Amazon as of October 10. No line here uses a price a retailer told us about.
Where to buy
- Held for
- 6d
- Their 20-day low
- $247.00
- Checked
- 17m ago
Prices checked at least every 12 hours. “Held for” is how long that retailer has been charging this price. A hidden price is one we cannot re-confirm recently enough to publish.
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What it is
6 attributes, in the retailer’s own words. We record the prices; these we only pass on.
- Size
- 21.5" 1080p Display
- Color
- Silver
- Weight
- 18.3 pounds
- Dimensions
- 20.8 × 17.7 × 6.9 inches
- Model
- A1418
- Warranty
- 90 days limited warranty
Cheaper in Desktops, and what changes
Things we track on the same shelf for at least 10% less than $257.00, with the attributes the retailers describe differently. Their words, not our judgement — we record prices, we do not test products.
Every change we recorded at Amazon
Every row is a price we saw change. We write one only when a price actually moves, so a gap here means the price held.
| When | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
| · 6d ago | $257.00 | −$21.00 |
| · 7d ago | $278.00 | +$19.00 |
| · 8d ago | $259.00 | −$19.00 |
| · 9d ago | $278.00 | −$21.00 |
| · 10d ago | $299.00 | +$52.00 |
| · 10d ago | $247.00 | −$12.00 |
6 older changes
| When | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
| · 10d ago | $259.00 | −$19.00 |
| · 12d ago | $278.00 | +$31.00 |
| · 16d ago | $247.00 | −$5.99 |
| · 16d ago | $252.99 | +$3.00 |
| · 17d ago | $249.99 | +$0.05 |
| · 19d ago | $249.94 | first seen |
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$257.00
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