iMac Late 2015 macOs Monterey is painfully slow
Jan 26, 2024 · I have an 21.5" iMac Late 2015 macOs Monterey that is painfully slow. Here is everything I have done to try and fix this: Reset SMC and PRAM. Ran first aid in Disk Utility - no issues. Uninstalled most apps. I cannot get the iMac to boot to any sort of diagnostic or recovery partition at all. What I ideally want to do is buy a Solid State hard ...
2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade - MacRumors Forums
Interwebz. Jun 14, 2013. #2. MichaelDT said: I will be attempting to upgrade the MXM card in my 2011 21.5 iMac from the factory 6770m 512mb to a NVidia 675m 2GB. I choose this card because the chipset already has support from 10.8.3 onwards and affordability for an experiment.
CPU Upgrade iMac Mid 2011 - MacRumors Forums
Apr 14, 2020 · The difference between Mid 2011 21.5" and 27" concerning CPU upgradability is mainly caused by the available power from the power supply. --- The 21.5" has 210W power supply, the 27" has 310W. As the power is shared among the components, it is recommended to. --- either use a CPU with TDP of 65W (or close to this) only for the 21.5".
Late 2013 21.5" iMac - Booting from external SSD - MacRumors …
72. 601. UK. Jan 26, 2021. #1. Having just acquired a late 2013 21.5" iMac I thought about any possible advantage in booting off of an external SSD, what I didn't want though was something cumbersome maybe desk mounted that would limit ease of movement as the iMac needs moving around a bit each day to cater for different situations.
Upgrade Mid 2011 iMac 21.5 beyond High Sierra?
Oct 9, 2021. #1. Here is the thing. I have a mid 2011 21.5 iMac (since new) and over the years I have upgraded it to 32GB RAM, Samsung EVO 860 SSD and an Intel-Core i7 2600S. And I’m stuck at Mac OS High Sierra. I cannot speak to the accuracy, but I have heard it is actually possible to upgrade an iMac such as mine beyond High Sierra ...
Late 2015 iMac SSD Upgrade Advice (Internal or External?)
Nov 17, 2019 · 1) Use an upgrade kit and do the more complex disassembly to replace the stick SSD drive with the size I want. (with an adapter.) 2) Use an upgrade kit and do the less complex disassembly to replace the SATA spinning hard drive with the SSD (with 2.5" to 3.5" adapter.) 3) Use an external drive of some kind with the existing Thunderbolt 2 port.
Opening 2012 iMac 21.5 " What to upgrade? - MacRumors Forums
Sep 11, 2020 · My iMac is a late 2012, (13.1) 2,7GHz i7 with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 2GB graphics, I have to open it to change the flash storage drive and would like to upgrade the wifi and bluetooth card. Thank you. iMac 2012 is not compatible with Big Sur unfortunately. It is stuck on macOS Catalina.
can i put i7-9700k or i9-9900k in iMac 21.5 2019? - MacRumors …
Sep 1, 2019 · Jun 25, 2020. 67. 31. Chicago IL. Jun 17, 2022. #8. abc.dcm said: I think it's possible to put i7 9700k or i9 9900k to imac 21.5 inch 2019 (base version core i5 8600) because both of them has TDP 95W. In the past, someone has put i7 …
21.5" 2011 iMac CPU upgrade? i7 2600s vs i7 3770s?
May 11, 2013 · The i7 3770s is selling for around $300, while the 2600s is selling for about $330. So, the 3770s seems like a better deal because it's cheaper and has higher benchmarks. Also, the Ivy Bridge processors support the z68 chipset which is the chipset on the 2011 iMac logic boards. If it's possible to get the performance of a 2012 iMac with my 2011 ...
Upgrade RAM on 2019 21.5" iMac - worth it or not? - MacRumors …
I have a 2019 21.5" iMac with 8GB of RAM. Everything on the Mac side (running Big Sur) runs fine - including the games I have downloaded from Apple Arcade. However, I also run Windows 10 under Bootcamp and that seems slow to me as far as initial startup and starting applications. I …