If you have ever taken apart an iMac, you know that it is a bit daunting. I also ordered a bracket that would be used to mount the 2.5” SSD in the place of a standard 3.5” hard drive. I got a great deal on the 480GB Crucial M500 SSD. I told him that if it worked, it probably would breathe another couple years of life into the computer, and if it didn’t, I could eBay my recent purchase and he wouldn’t be out much cash for the attempt. I told my dad that I would try to replace it with an SSD to see how that would work. ![]() This told me that the disk was the weakest link in the machine. Let’s get you a new one.” However, when I played around with it, I found slow shutdown, slow bootup, slow opening of programs. When my dad told me that the iMac was running slowly and needed a tune-up of sorts, my initial instinct was, “Dad, this thing is 7 years old. ![]() The default model came with a 500GB sata drive, and the DVD superdrive is actually connected via PATA. Yet, at the same time, it has a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo, which is dual core and 64 bit, plenty powerful for most tasks. It’s nearly 7 years old, and in computer time, that’s an eternity.
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