- #IMAC 27 LATE 2013 MEMORY UPGRADE ARCHIVE#
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- #IMAC 27 LATE 2013 MEMORY UPGRADE PLUS#
The 2010 is still perfectly usable for many things, and your 2013 is inherently more useful/usable both because of Intel CPU improvements that occurred between 20 (Sandy Bridge was the last large leap, and happened after 2010) and because it is still a supported machine in Mojave. I finally got a new 15” MBP a couple months ago, but that iMac is still doing duty as the “family” computer. (I was not surprised - I work with a lot of machines and know what SSDs can do.) After some thought, I fixed it myself for about $250 (was both an SSD and a new spinning drive.) The machine felt vastly faster after that. The internal HD died, so I was forced to figure something out. I have a 2010 27” iMac that I upgraded to an SSD a little over a year ago. My 2013 iMac 27 can probably live on for another 2 to 3 years with a new Fusion drive too, both the SSD and HDD, but the low DPI display is getting more and more anachronistic. You can also get a 2 TB SSD and give yourself some breathing room for a couple of more years.
#IMAC 27 LATE 2013 MEMORY UPGRADE ARCHIVE#
So I will have her archive all her old stuff onto an external drive, delete all the junk, and bring it in for upgrade after she has cleaned up the drive as much as possible. Also the fact that my daughter has about 900 GB of files on it. The 1 TB mechanical drive is obviously what is making the machine run slow. They also said that is what they would do to speed up the machine.
#IMAC 27 LATE 2013 MEMORY UPGRADE PLUS#
They are basically charging $100 labor plus parts.
#IMAC 27 LATE 2013 MEMORY UPGRADE PC#
Myself I’m a PC person not a Mac person so I’m not comfortable trying to do it myself. I called the local Mac repair shop and they quoted me about $300-400 for swapping in a 1 TB Samsung SSD and transferring over all the data and applications. It looks like replacing the HD requires dismantling the display and removing the screen so I'm not sure that's something I want to take on myself. According to their web site they charge $169 labor plus parts for this sort of work. We have a CitiMac franchise shop near our house. I'm not sure what that would cost if I brought it into a mac shop. I think that the existing 24 GB of RAM should be plenty so I'm guessing that the most logical upgrade would be to swap out the old mechanical HD for an SSD or fusion drive. Just that she is getting frustrated and it is obviously a 5 year old machine. This is not a computer that I use so I really don't know what the issues are with it. I'm curious if there is a reasonable and economical upgrade path for this iMac or if we are just better off getting something like a new Mac Mini and pairing it with a nice monitor. It is this model: with the 3.2 gHz processor, 24 GB of RAM and the 1 TB mechanical hard drive. It has basically gotten so slow that she is getting frustrated with the processing time when working with animation files. She uses it with a Wacom Cintiq to do drawing and animation. So you must add memory four pieces at a time (and they must be the same size and type of memory) in order for the system to benefit from the upgrade.We have a late-2013 27" iMac in the house that is mainly used by our 10th grade daughter for drawing and animation. These are divided into 3 banks, and each bank consists of four memory slots. So you must add memory two pieces at a time (they must be the same size and type of memory) in order for the system to benefit from the upgrade.ġ2 sockets (3 banks of 4) This indicates that there are 12 memory slots. These are divided into 4 banks, and each bank consists of two memory slots. So you must add memory two pieces at a time (they must be the same size and type of memory) in order for the system to benefit from the upgrade.Ĩ sockets (4 banks of 2) This indicates that there are 8 memory slots. These are divided into 2 banks, and each bank consists of two memory slots. So you can add memory one piece at a time for the system to use.Ĥ sockets (2 banks of 2) This indicates that there are 4 memory slots. These are divided into 3 banks, and each bank consists of one memory slot. So you can add memory one piece at a time for the system to use.ģ sockets (3 banks of 1) This indicates that there are 3 memory slots. These are divided into 2 banks, and each bank consists of one memory slot. :Ģ sockets (2 banks of 1) This indicates that there are 2 memory slots. A memory bank is a group of memory expansion sockets, a bank must be completely filled with memory modules of the same size and type in order for the system to recognize and address the memory. The Apple iMac 27-Inch (Late 2013) has 4 Sockets memory expansion slots. Memory Sockets or Slots are the place where memory RAM modules are inserted in the motherboard.