> On May 6, 2016, at 4:01 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe so, but ya gotta stay Flossy. > > I am not familiar with your model. But is a USB 3.0 connection just as viable > a swap? Seems USB 2 is plenty fast and comparable to FW800. > USB 3.0 enclosures might be less money. Especially on tiger direct.
Sadly, my Mac has no USB 3.0 ports. It does however have USB 2 and a single Firewire 800 port. Bandwidth is one reason I’d prefer the FW800 port; USB2 tops out at about 30mb/s, whereas FW800 gets almost 80mb/s. Firewire also taxes the CPU less, and my CPU can’t take much stress. > > Sometimes you might not be familiar with the name but you can do a lot of > searching online for it. Problem parts will have lots of forum threads > unresolved. > > Also have you looked at your drive specs? > > How about this. Depending on your drive physical foot print and connector > type have you thought about getting a conversion adapter and mounting it as > the main drive? OWC used to sell adapters in the old days for what I was > working on. > I have done a hard drive replacement on an iMac before, and it was no picnic. I’d rather avoid if it I can, even if it means I wouldn’t reap full SSD benefits. > As far as keeping this machine viable for your gaming online those days are > in the hands of Apple and the way they drive new sales with abandoning > hardware support. And new tech, with the way they keep upping the candy > offered but you need more protocol resources. They may also phase out the old > games you like. > Eye candy is nice, but I have an aging yet decent gaming PC for that purpose. Why do I still game on this old Mac? I just generally prefer the OS X (or is it MacOS once again?) experience, even if I can’t afford the latest and greatest. And if I get really desperate, I can always stream Steam games to the Mac. Even after all these years, it does have nice big screen that’s in my preferred aspect ratio, 16:10. Eric -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
