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2017 27" iMac buying help
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I own a 2011 27" iMac, 3.4 GHz i7. After seven years, and several upgrades, it's still a very fast machine. Since I don't do very much video editing, the extra money spent on an i7 was probably a waste. Regarding noise, I have never had a problem, so I doubt newer machines would have a problem, either.
These 2011 iMacs were designed to allow users to change the RAM, and I think the current iMacs still allow it. That does not void a warranty. When I wanted to add an SSD, I connected one from LaCie via thunderbolt and set it up to boot from the external SSD, and there was a huge speed improvement. Since I have been using a Macintosh since 1985, I have enjoyed upgrading them until recent years when Apple developed some kind of electronic anorexia and made everything so slim and tight that nothing can be done to upgrade them. With the help of videos from OWC, I replaced the hard drive inside the iMac with a larger SSD. About a year later, the iMac develop video problems, and I took the machine to a authorized repair shop to have the video card replaced per Apple's replacement program. Nothing was said about the fact that my machine had been opened and an SSD was installed. I suppose they could have refused to fix the machine, but they didn't. Recently, the backlighting on the left side of the machine stopped working. With the guidance of videos and a friend who has experience working in tight places, six tiny dots within a 11 mm x 6 mm space were soldered, now the display works perfectly, again.
I will milk this iMac as long as I can. The same goes for my 2012 MacBook Pro that I have added two SSDs and upgraded the RAM. I am very disappointed with Apple and its electronic anorexia. I learned more about computers by being able to modify them, and this fueled my excitement about their products. Now, they make disposable devices that are expected to last only two or three years. Ho-hum.
These 2011 iMacs were designed to allow users to change the RAM, and I think the current iMacs still allow it. That does not void a warranty. When I wanted to add an SSD, I connected one from LaCie via thunderbolt and set it up to boot from the external SSD, and there was a huge speed improvement. Since I have been using a Macintosh since 1985, I have enjoyed upgrading them until recent years when Apple developed some kind of electronic anorexia and made everything so slim and tight that nothing can be done to upgrade them. With the help of videos from OWC, I replaced the hard drive inside the iMac with a larger SSD. About a year later, the iMac develop video problems, and I took the machine to a authorized repair shop to have the video card replaced per Apple's replacement program. Nothing was said about the fact that my machine had been opened and an SSD was installed. I suppose they could have refused to fix the machine, but they didn't. Recently, the backlighting on the left side of the machine stopped working. With the guidance of videos and a friend who has experience working in tight places, six tiny dots within a 11 mm x 6 mm space were soldered, now the display works perfectly, again.
I will milk this iMac as long as I can. The same goes for my 2012 MacBook Pro that I have added two SSDs and upgraded the RAM. I am very disappointed with Apple and its electronic anorexia. I learned more about computers by being able to modify them, and this fueled my excitement about their products. Now, they make disposable devices that are expected to last only two or three years. Ho-hum.
Yes, I also had the same experience with an Apple replacement program for a MacBook battery. But a part replacement program (like the recent $29 one for iPhone batteries) is more like a recall and is not related to warranty work. My only point here is that it is irresponsible to advise people to "just replace your SSD" in a new iMac without at least mentioning the numerous reports of Apple refusing to do warranty work on a machine that has been opened. If someone, fully informed about what might happen, wants to open their iMac they are of course fee to do so. But people come to this forum looking for useful advice, not misleading legal theories.
1. We have taken in iMac for warranty without problem.
2. It's the laws, not "legal theories".
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