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Late 2013
- Thread starter Jay2224
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27"? As long as it works... These are inexpensive to upgrade. Superfast isn't possible but you can give one of these its Wheaties for a couple hundred $.
I would personally look for a 27” over the 21.5
You don't need to know. Techs don't cost that much.
Upgrading a 21.5" can be difficult to impossible. One with a Fusion drive or SSD can be upgraded easily. The HDD only version is not supposed to have the socket for the good upgrade — some do but ya never know till it's opened up. Even still, the HDD can be replaced with a SATA III SSD and that is a lot better.
If everything works and there are no problems, these are things that can be done later—if at all.
I’m still using my late 2013 27” iMac daily and it runs great. You may want to add some RAM if it hasn’t already been upgraded to at least 16GB. Mine is still good enough that it’s hard to justify upgrading.
The one I got is the 3.2 with 16gb ram and the 755m GPU, so 1 gb. Its a step in the right direction from my 2011. I just did the SSD upgrade and that was gut wrenching compared to the 2011. But I think I will stop here for the time being. I have another 2011 27" lower spec that I use as my second display. Good find for you though, they are way over pdrived out here in Seattle. The good thing about that though, I can sell my higher spec 2011 27" for about $400.