imac (21.5" mid 2017)

Hello everyone! Just prefacing that I'm a techie and I've been using macs for more than 15 years! (currently on a fantastic M1 Pro MBP) My parents are still rocking a 2017 iMac that a couple years ago I upgraded from the OG HDD to an external 1TB SanDisk Extreme SSD drive. Performances with the...

Hi, I got the above iMAC and I have a problem of accessing the Recovery mode of it. I guess this happened after I tried to install Windows via BootCamp and then failed. (Allocated partition was recovered using bootcamp itself) Neither of following doesn't work at the moment while booting with a...

Hello there! I hope I'm writing on the right topic 😅 Since I bought my iMac 2017 21.5'' in 2020, I noticed that Office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams) were taking ages to launch! At first I thought it was a bug and would soon be fixed with a Microsoft update. It turned out that everything...

I need to find out, whether the screen assemblies for both the 2017 and the 2019 4K 21.5" iMac (Model Nos. A1418 and A2116, respectively) are identical. The screen replacement procedure for both models on iFixit’s site are identical, though filed separately. The description of the 2019 screen...

Is it possible to upgrade the CPU on an iMac 21.5"? My current CPU is a 7th-generation 3.4GHz i5-7500. Specifically, I'm looking at 8th gen or 9th gen since they're both LGA1151 sockets. That said, with Macs, it usually isn't that simple. Has someone performed this upgrade? If not, what's...

Evening all, So, I regrettably bought an iMac 2017 21.5" 4k Retina, 3.0 GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD last year... Compared to my Macbook Air with an SSD it is very sluggish, even whilst completing basic tasks (such as using MS Office and Chrome). I would like to upgrade the HDD to a SSD. I've been...

Hey guys! So, recently i've been buying and selling a ton of macs because I just can't decide what's best for me. Here is the situation. My daily driver has been a 2013 Maxed out 15' Mbp with a 750m. Until recently, i've just been "docking" it at home with my main monitor. I didn't like the...

My iMac is: iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017) Intel i5-7600 3,5 GHz 32GB of OWC Memory (2 x 16GB PC4-19200 DDR4) Radeon Pro 555 2 GB OWC 1.0TB Mercury Extreme® Pro 6G SSD + 256GB M.2 SSD How much can I get from selling it?