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musiquity

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Oct 16, 2021
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First of all i wanted to say biiiig thanks to this amazing forum!
I learnt so many stuff and solved so many issues because of you!

Ok, i took recentely for 40 euros a mid 2007 alu imac 24 inches with 3gb of ram and core 2 duo 2.4ghz.
The imac is absolutely stunning, conditions were as new, and works beautifully! Already mounted vesa wall is gorgeus.
Ok, i ordered then a t9300 2.5ghz cpu which i will upgrade very soon to surf with catalina. For now i'm with el capitan. I also upgraded to a SSD 240gb A400 kingston which i had. mac is running amazingly (13 years old and beyond!!)
I want then to make two more upgrades. Ram and airport.

Ram i'm not really in the mood to put 4gb (tu make 6 in total). I mean, could be, but here is 30 euros for one single chip of 4gb....is it worth to put 4gb insted of a normal 2+2gb (one 2gb costs like 9 bucks).
Secondly, the aiport. I understood i need

1 -this https://www.ebay.it/itm/234028159099
2 - plus this https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005...8e-2&pdp_ext_f={"sku_id":"12000016560491782"}
3 - plus this https://www.ebay.it/itm/223496910525

Is that right? the question is, where should i put the 3rd wire that starts from the airport? Actually my airport has 2 wires for the antennas. if i'm not wrong...
 
all right i bought (for 10 bucks) a single bank of 4gb memory now i've got 6gb in total. Great upgrade!
Now with the t9300 + 6gb mojave really runs amazingly (and Kingston SSD). Seems beter than my mom's 2009 2,93ghz one. Probably the link negotiated speed is better (3gbs while the sata ssd connetcion my mom is 3gbz but negotiated 1.5 never understood why.....).
Boot is sooo fast, and faster than my mom 2009 one. Surfing with quantum firefox, youtube ecc is great i must say.
Isight works whil my mom's one nope...again don't know why.

Anyway i'm ordering the airport card update :)
I bought the pci to mini pci adaptor, the BCM94360CSAX plus the 3 antannas female to male cables.

Really exctied bout all these upgrades! Anywbody still has these imacs?
 
PS i will install windows 7 too WITHOUTusing bootcamp..stay tuned
 
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