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Roxy.music

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Jun 9, 2019
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The 2017 iMac with a 3.5 i5, 24 GB of RAM, and a 250 GB SSD. the ssd is in good health.
The thing is i use a external thunderbolt drive.
The problem is a lot of the time the noise ramps , funny enough it has been on for over 2 hours and is quite as a mouse :rolleyes:It has not been as quite as that for ages;My dilemma is ,do i get someone to sort it out not the Apple store. but somewhere i used before.Or do i sell it as is ?And what would i say when selling it?
Do i say something like* it is working but there is a problem with noise*
What sort of price would it be just to look at it ?I would think it might be something like £200 to get it done .What sort of price should i ask bearing in mind the noise problem?Of course if someone who new about Macs it might be a straight forward problem.
If i had to pay £200 it would be better if i put it to one of those amazing Mac minis .And as it is eight years old now.There is no other problem but the noise problem.
 
Noise from the iMac's fans? Noise coming from the speakers? Noise from a undetermined source? How can a repair be estimated without knowing?

Do you need to make a recording of the noise (with you phone?) and upload it here?
 
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