Back then, there was a free version of Carbon Copy Cloner. Today, you can still get a day trial before you need to pay for the software which should be fine to create a one-off bootable clone of your internal hard drive to an external SSD. It all worked out well. The drive cloning worked perfectly. The iMac was able to boot from the external solid state drive and gained a huge performance boost over the standard internal hard drive.
Note: I left the internal hard drive intact as a backup. The additional RAM gave it a beneficial boost to support newer memory intensive applications.
There was one small issue. You could restart the iMac without an issue but if you shut down the iMac and then started it up, the iMac would defaultly boot to the internal drive instead of the external SSD as the SSD would not yet be powered up at initial startup.
To do that read How to select a different startup disk. If the external hard disk installation works properly while the internal one does not, that is all the justification you need to condemn the internal disk. That leaves EtreCheck. If the performance of the disk being evaluated falls below a threshold, it concludes the disk may be operating in a state of failure. That's still not a conclusive determination, but it's better than Disk Utility.
In extreme cases EtreCheck may take a half hour or more to run. That's about as conclusive as anything is likely to get. May 20, PM. May 20, PM in response to niandralades76 In response to niandralades Looks the same to me.
Sure this time MacOS managed to somehow avoid using swap space for virtual memory, didn't have a timeout when writing to the disk, and finished in the etrecheck test on time A few hundred to upgrade your , or a few thousand to by a new So, if you do go about ridding of your Mac , refer to the following: What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac - Apple Support. I take it that all proposed actions to repair if this term is appropriate at all the iMac would take a considerable amount of time and that there is no guarantee for success.
The only question that remains is hoping that it is not an act of blasphemy to ask this in an iMac forum if you think that ten years from now I'd be better of if now I bought an iMac or a MacBook Pro. May 21, AM. Question: Q: Is it worth upgrading a iMac? More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: niandralades76 niandralades Desktops Speciality level out of ten: 0.
Reply I have this question too 52 I have this question too Me too 52 Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Loading page content. User profile for user: KiltedTim KiltedTim. May 19, PM in response to niandralades76 In response to niandralades76 I wouldn't. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: dialabrain dialabrain.
User profile for user: padams35 padams Desktops Speciality level out of ten: 1. May 19, PM in response to niandralades76 In response to niandralades76 Financially? That's just an expected cost over time. So financially the upgrade is probably worth it. Hyper Threading only really matters with heavily threaded workloads video encoding, offline 3D rendering so I doubt most users would notice a difference, but it's still a shame that the iMac can't claim total superiority over the MacBook Pro.
I turned to MSR Tools once again to verify turbo operation. Running a single threaded instance of Cinebench the tools reported a maximum clock frequency of 3. Assuming MSR Tools itself is keeping a second core awake, turboing up to 3. I have no reason to believe that Apple is artificially limiting max turbo speeds, at least on the inch 3. Given how much room there is inside the iMac to dissipate heat, I don't see any reason for Apple to limit clock speeds here.
The quad-core CPU idles at 1. Quick Sync is of course one of Sandy Bridge's biggest features and once again it goes relatively unused within the iMac. FaceTime HD supports it but iMovie, which ships with the system, has yet to be updated to take advantage of Quick Sync.
Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment. Which does not seem that bad of a deal, except I could never see myself having a monitor that costs more then the computer used with it.
It seems very backwards. I think I would say No. Privacy Policy. Contact Us.
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