OWC (Other World Computing) has a 250GB SSD kit for $91. I started looking at parts, and decided on getting a “kit”. I decided to go ahead and try to put some life into the old iMac, and if I was going to tear it apart, I might as well install an SSD (Solid State Drive with no moving parts and blazing read/write times) instead of a hard drive. To begin with, to get to the hard drive, the glass LCD cover on the front of the computer has to be removed (with special suction cups), then the aluminum bezel that surrounds the LCD panel, and finally the LCD itself. Installing a new drive in an iMac is no walk in the park. I have other Macs, so my work was not interfered with however, this iMac was my first Mac, and when it was healthy, I really loved using it. All that was left was either to decide to use it as a rather large door-stop or replace its hard drive. After several months on non-use, I needed closure. The iMac was still just plain slow and I quit using it. I had tried all the usual solutions and maxed out its memory capacity. It took a little over a minute and a half just to load and start the OS. My 10-year-old iMac had slowed considerably.
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