El Cap on a 2007 iMac

[jonny]

GGD wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
The more frequently I hear stuff like this, the more convinced I become that, were Jobs to rise from the grave today, he would sack anyone at Apple who had anything to do with unleashing Yosemite upon an unsuspecting world.

Just remember that he was the one that unleashed Lion on the world.
The other system I downgraded from!

[mattkime]

jonny wrote:
[quote=GGD]
That's encouraging, how much RAM? Rotating drive (5400 or 7200?) or SSD?

7200
4gb RAM

Dictation is slooooow, but no surprise there.
MORE RAM MORE SSD

[modelamac]

I did the same thing on my 2007 iMAC 2.8GHZ 6GB RAM, after I replaced the dead original HD with a 500 GB SSD.

Works great!! Won't be replacing it for several years now, as I never do any heavy lifting with it.

[jonny]

mattkime wrote:
[quote=jonny]
[quote=GGD]
That's encouraging, how much RAM? Rotating drive (5400 or 7200?) or SSD?

7200
4gb RAM

Dictation is slooooow, but no surprise there.
MORE RAM MORE SSD
I'm looking for ram, but it's pricy!

[sekker]

jonny wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
[quote=jonny]
[quote=GGD]
That's encouraging, how much RAM? Rotating drive (5400 or 7200?) or SSD?

7200
4gb RAM

Dictation is slooooow, but no surprise there.
MORE RAM MORE SSD
I'm looking for ram, but it's pricy!
For that machine, just get an SSD and be done. That'll be a terminal hardware upgrade.

Thanks for posting your experience!

[jonny]

Are these things easy to pop in? It looks like 500GB for about $150.

[hal]

Not too hard, but the first time is intimidating... do your research and follow instructions.

[jdc]

Yeah, skip the ram, go straight to the SSD.

Yup pretty simple. Sure, go slow the first time, but now that I have done mine a few times, 10 mintues tops.

Its my daughters machine now with a 3 GB ram and 120 GB SSD, still running 10.6.8, but it flys. Full screen hulu, netflix, whatever and it runs like a champ.

If you dont want to pop it open -- even booting from a SSD via USB 2 was pretty quick. Thats how her machine ran until I felt like doing the transplant internally.

[jonny]

jdc wrote:
Yeah, skip the ram, go straight to the SSD.

Yup pretty simple. Sure, go slow the first time, but now that I have done mine a few times, 10 mintues tops.

Its my daughters machine now with a 3 GB ram and 120 GB SSD, still running 10.6.8, but it flys. Full screen hulu, netflix, whatever and it runs like a champ.

If you dont want to pop it open -- even booting from a SSD via USB 2 was pretty quick. Thats how her machine ran until I felt like doing the transplant internally.

Awesome.Thanks for all your advice folks!

[decay]

i'm running a 2008 iMac with only 4 GB of RAM, but a boot SSD has helped reduce beachballs.