It seems that the first units of iMac, Late 2012 “Refurbished”, but at the moment we have only seen them in the Apple Store in the United States, we assume that they will appear here soon.
A few days ago we spoke in Soy de Mac of the option to buy a Mac refurbished by Apple in the article «Save money buying a Mac “Refurbished»And it seems that if we are patient, we can save money on the purchase of our Mac.
Apple has added restored models of the current generation 21,5-inch iMac in its Online Store (in the US) in recent days, also offering a much faster shipment of refurbished than its same model, new, this is because the new ones do not have real stock and the restored ones have them in the warehouses. A good choice for customers looking for a cheaper desktop Mac with a one-year warranty.
The new models of iMac Late 2012 new from Apple's official website, have a waiting time of several weeks (quite a few) as far as deliveries of the new model referswhile refurbished models are ready for 1-3 day shipping, with $ 200 and $ 230 off the 21-inch models, respectively.
We have been able to observe in the Spanish Apple Store, that the shipping times for the 21,5 ″ iMAc increased to 3-4 weeks in January, and have not improved since then. Tim Cook commented at the conference on "Apple accounts" that in January, the company iMac supply would increase this quarter, but cannot get to supply / demand permanent stock yet.
In the case of the 27 ″ iMac models it is still too early to be able to see them in the Store with the label «Refurbished», in addition the 27-inch model suffers more delays in shipping than its little brother, the waiting time of these iMac oscillates between 4 - 6 weeks in our countryHopefully this weather will improve soon as there are many customers who are still waiting for the arrival of their iMac.
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Source - Macrumors