!rant Need advice. Been wanting to switch to Mac-based dev for a while and finally found an $810 new-in-box iMac 21.5" 4K with retina / 3.1Ghz quad / 8GB / 1TB bought new from BestBuy late 2016 but manufactured sometime in 2015. Never opened. Any potential pitfalls with that and expected OS updates or dev tools?

Sounds like a good deal. I'm not really a Mac person, but I'd get it if I were you.

(Still have to say something-something Linux because obligations)

go for it!
you could even buy and sell it for 1100 dollars on ebay.

Something something osx is bad something something hard to cross compile something something hackintosh?

I bought it. It's beautiful. Can't wait to start developing with it.

@stackodev
cool! 😎

tipp, get homebrew the packet manager for mac os
https://brew.sh/

for example: sudo brew install node

and install https://caskroom.github.io/

also www.hyper.is

@heyheni thanks! I'm also using Kalabox.io with Pantheon.io for most development I do. Installing Kalabox and the required Terminus command line on Windows 10 Home is impossible due to lack of HyperV support. On Pro it's still not easy. But on this Mac I issued two commands and EVERYTHING was magic. Gonna get started with Homebrew and stuff next.