Cool tool Bruce ! uh, I should rephrase that !
šÆ Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote: > > > On May 6, 2016, at 5:40 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I was not familiar with your model. I thought maybe it had a PCI slot > behind a trap door. > > No iMacs have ever had PCI slots. > > > If you have had it for a while I am rather surprised you do not have the > disassembly down to a fast routine. > > > > iMacs, at keast post the white plastic models, have been remarkably long > lived. RAM is easy to get to, the Hard drive is retty much the only other > thing thatās not part of the logic board. Working on them is not rocket > science, but itās not simple, either. I replaced the HDD in my mid-2010 > model ad it took me an extra several days because I broke a tiny $2.95 > cable that used a slightly different connector than the directions I had > said. Making sure I didnāt break the heavy, delicate, horribly > dust-attractive glass screen on my 27ā model was the biggest hassle. Also I > ended up fabricating a useful tool form a heavy paperclip to help pull up > the LCD screen. > > <https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/e1yysSwMNh6o4xqh> > > > My experience has been that if I was going to keep an old machine going > I had to learn to work on it. I hate opening laptops but I will do it > rather than pay hundreds. > > > > A set of step by step diagrams is a good thing to have. > > ifixit,com has good takeapart diagrams for most macs. > > > But I understand the reluctance. > > A power screw driver and some bits makes it a lot easier. > > > > Casually looking at 2.4 Core 2 says it had a 7200 rpm drive. > > You put a huge 5400 rpm drive in it. 2 bottle necks right there if that > is the case. > > That makes a huge difference. A professor bought some Mac Miniās for his > lab as general-purpose computers (these were 2011 models, iirc) they were > horribly slow, the HDD speed even reduced the network speeds. replacing > them with SSDās was like night and day. > > > Some partitioning into a new boot volume with smaller space, might that > help ? > > Nope. Personally Iād bite the bullet and open it upto replace the HDD, > just be real wary of the LCD vertical synch cable, itās quite delicate and > easy to breakā¦make sure you get a good grip on the connector. In my case my > forceps slipped off, grabbed the wires and quite efficiently ripped them > out of the connector. This is complicated by the fact that you can only > raise the LCD about two inches to reach the cable. > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > -- > 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.
