Good points, all. Russell Courtenay
Sent from my iPhone > On May 6, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Eric B. Volker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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. -- 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.
