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| Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2012 05:14 |
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Iain
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Thanks Jonathan, I'll take a look too.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2012 05:22 |
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Iain
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Robert wrote:How full is your HD Iain? You should always have at least 20% free, because the OS uses vast amounts of HD space for virtual RAM. If the HD is getting full it will impact badly on the overall performance. The HD is 250gb with 154gb still left free. It's when using things like LR4 that it is slow, or maybe it's me that is getting inpatient. 
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| Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2012 13:33 |
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jk
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 Iain, Pack it in a box and send to me in Spain, I dont have an iMac (yet).
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| Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2012 14:35 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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Very nicely done JK now we wait to see if it shows up on your doorstep. Sometime today a cable will arrive to connect another monitor to my iMac. I remembered I have a spare 19inch monitor which will be fine for the old pc, and am moving the 24 inch over to share space with the iMac. this is something I never would have thought to do with the pc, that is so easy with the mac and not just to look cool, but is useful too. Sooooooooo many very neat things to learn and explore, I am having a great time take care be well Ed   :sleepy:
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| Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2012 15:01 |
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jk
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I doubt it Ed. The post to Spain is very slow and I think that its best that Iain gets best use from it. I fancy a new screen for my Mini Mac but it will come in the next month or so when I order it. I have decided that the Dell U2711 is the best value and performance, my Dell 2405UW has been very good and cost four times the price of the replacement screen that is 3" bigger but has the same performance. If I went for the Dell U2411 it would only cost me 1/8 the price of my 2405UW from 6 or 7 years ago.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 3rd, 2012 17:44 |
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Doug
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This is the direction you want to go for performance ssd drive for the OS - internal separate ssd drive for Lightroom Catalog/Photoshop scratch - internal (you have to lose the superdrive on an iMac to achieve this - http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DDMMCL0GB/) Large external drive for images - firewire* OR External ssd in thunderbolt or firewire enclosure for OS Internal SSD for Lightroom Catalog/Photoshop scratch External firewire for images* *current iMacs will support thunderbolt and the next gen due by the end of the year will support usb 3
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| Posted: Sat Aug 4th, 2012 09:58 |
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Iain
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That sounds good Doug and would be cheaper than a new imac but how easy would it be to do as I have never had an imac to bits.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 4th, 2012 16:34 |
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Robert
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Iain, the Mac is dead easy to take apart. Lay on a blanket, face down, ( the iMac... silly!!!  ) undo two? screws at the bottom of the casing and lift the back off.All the guts are laid out before you. I think, depending on model you have to remove some of the air ducting to get at the HD, the DVD is straightforward on the one I stripped (G5), although I have had the back off an intel one too, the previous one to the current model. Didn't seem much different under the hood. I replaced the power supply and HD on mine. The beauty of fitting SSD's is they will carry forward to another iMac if you decide to upgrade the machine to a newer/faster one eventually. Check out the reputation of the drives you buy before parting with cash, there are issues with some makes/types (there are very few actual SSD makers but quite a variety of vendors who put their labels on). There are issues with defragging some of the drives. Don't worry too much about dead sectors, they are mapped out on the fly and data is moved around to compensate. This is info I have seen on a very reliable forum.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 4th, 2012 17:00 |
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Doug
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Robert wrote:Iain, the Mac is dead easy to take apart. Which iMac? For the last couple of years the rear is a continuous piece of aluminum. Entry is then done by removing the screen from the front - once inside you must be careful of static and various other fragile ribbons and other components I recently did this in a MacBook with success, but nearly blew it due to a slightly different screw/ribbon placement compared to the online how-to videos
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| Posted: Sat Aug 4th, 2012 17:48 |
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Robert
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No it was before the full aluminium model. Can't remember which. Yes I agree static is an issue. I had mixed success stripping my late 2009 Mac mini, my eyesight is getting markedly worse. Because of my clumsiness the running LED indicator light no longer works and I couldn't see where to connect the wi-fi or bluetooth antenna, but given I don't use either I carried on regardless. I stripped it because it was overheating. It was causing the Firewire drive to drop out for no reason every 15 minutes or so. Since I cleaned the computer internally the temperatures have dropped considerably. It has since run for two days continuously since I cleaned it and no further issues with the FW drive. To be honest the computer didn't seem to bad for dust, the fan was worst, I used a toothbrush to clean the fan blades and a pastry brush to clean the main heat-sink.  Temps before cleaning.  Temps after cleaning. 
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