Hi, all!
This summer I finally bought the last upgradable (and also the cheapest) 4K iMac, which I had on my list for almost two years.
Purchase trigger: The price on Amazon dropped from € 1200 to € 940 for the 6core i5, 8GB, 256GB and Radeon 560X model.
It can still run Mojave and 32bit software (In my business I'm still depending a little bit on my dinosaur "Adobe Creative Suite 5" from 2010, never going to rent adobe crApps)
After 3 months of beta-testing Monterey, benchmarking, looking for pixel failures or other problems that may require the 1-year-warranty I finally bit the bullet and ordered the parts of my dream config:
64 GB (32x2) of 2666MHz RAM,
Sintech NVMe adapter,
Crucial P5 1TB NVMe
SATA-cable 923-0641
Crucial MX500 2TB SSD
(...but no CPU*)
The upgrade process went well, as it was absolutely the same as with my older 21" iMac (Late 2013) using iFixit's instructions.
After adding RAM, my Geekbench 5 Multi Score went up from 4850 to nearly 5500!! (really didn't expect THAT...)
* I still am looking for a reasonable option to upgrade my CPU, as I know it isn't soldered (socket 1151):
-> Has anybody tried to replace the i5-8500 with a i9-9900(non-k)? TDP would be the same 65W, and it is also Coffee Lake – the bigger 27" model also uses the 9th gen so I suppose the lazy programmers included the same cpu support in the firmware.
This summer I finally bought the last upgradable (and also the cheapest) 4K iMac, which I had on my list for almost two years.
Purchase trigger: The price on Amazon dropped from € 1200 to € 940 for the 6core i5, 8GB, 256GB and Radeon 560X model.
It can still run Mojave and 32bit software (In my business I'm still depending a little bit on my dinosaur "Adobe Creative Suite 5" from 2010, never going to rent adobe crApps)
After 3 months of beta-testing Monterey, benchmarking, looking for pixel failures or other problems that may require the 1-year-warranty I finally bit the bullet and ordered the parts of my dream config:
64 GB (32x2) of 2666MHz RAM,
Sintech NVMe adapter,
Crucial P5 1TB NVMe
SATA-cable 923-0641
Crucial MX500 2TB SSD
(...but no CPU*)
The upgrade process went well, as it was absolutely the same as with my older 21" iMac (Late 2013) using iFixit's instructions.
After adding RAM, my Geekbench 5 Multi Score went up from 4850 to nearly 5500!! (really didn't expect THAT...)
* I still am looking for a reasonable option to upgrade my CPU, as I know it isn't soldered (socket 1151):
-> Has anybody tried to replace the i5-8500 with a i9-9900(non-k)? TDP would be the same 65W, and it is also Coffee Lake – the bigger 27" model also uses the 9th gen so I suppose the lazy programmers included the same cpu support in the firmware.