I know next to nothing about Macs. Someone was giving away a late 2013 iMac (27 inch) and I picked it up to get some familiarity with Mac and see what I can make of it. Now my idea is to revive it to a usable condition speed-wise and see if it can be my daily driver for a while, to learn and perhaps do some light coding on it. I always use older tech, and my main driver atm is a mini Dell i7 PC with Windows 11.
I've read and watched videos about upgrading storage, and I want to ask for opinion here on what's best to do. My goal can be described as wanting to make it as fast as possible but with lowest cost and least spare parts lying around, and I'm planning to possibly sell it at low cost down the line. So I thought the neatest option would be to go for a fusion drive with a small capacity NVMe blade to put the OS on and utilise the existing 1TB HDD. Or, I can go for replacing the HDD with SATA SSD. Ideally I would like to see the speed comparisons of different configurations.
I already have a 500G NVMe blade and a 120GB SATA SSD, but these are taken from my desktop PC and I will need them. But I could perhaps use them to test different options. Or should I not bother, and just purchase say a Samsung EVO 500G SATA and replace the hard drive?
I'm also going to expand RAM to 24GB. Currently I'm running OCLP Sonoma off the SSD connected to USB port, it's usable but a bit slow. Thanks for any suggestions!
(oh and btw, in terms of quick sale later, should I get a second hand magic keyb/mouse combo or go for wired (my preference) as 2x cheaper?)
I've read and watched videos about upgrading storage, and I want to ask for opinion here on what's best to do. My goal can be described as wanting to make it as fast as possible but with lowest cost and least spare parts lying around, and I'm planning to possibly sell it at low cost down the line. So I thought the neatest option would be to go for a fusion drive with a small capacity NVMe blade to put the OS on and utilise the existing 1TB HDD. Or, I can go for replacing the HDD with SATA SSD. Ideally I would like to see the speed comparisons of different configurations.
I already have a 500G NVMe blade and a 120GB SATA SSD, but these are taken from my desktop PC and I will need them. But I could perhaps use them to test different options. Or should I not bother, and just purchase say a Samsung EVO 500G SATA and replace the hard drive?
I'm also going to expand RAM to 24GB. Currently I'm running OCLP Sonoma off the SSD connected to USB port, it's usable but a bit slow. Thanks for any suggestions!
(oh and btw, in terms of quick sale later, should I get a second hand magic keyb/mouse combo or go for wired (my preference) as 2x cheaper?)