So, this is for a friend who will be buying multiple iMacs between home and office (for him and an employee and will be buying at least two and possibly three).
I know folks will argue about effort and efficiency in light of a few hundred dollars, but that's not the point.
So, my friend wants to buy base model 27" iMacs on Amazon ($1,725 each), and he wants to run them off of external USB-C drives (Crucial X8 512GB SSD at $120, but he would be open to other suggestions with similar characteristics) and 16gb upgrades (OWC $70). So, with tax included, he'll be paying approximately $412 less per unit than if he bought an iMac with 3.0/16gb/512gb/570x.
Now, I know the read and write speeds will be half/slightly less than half of what you would get with the internal ssd, but he's not going to be dealing with large files or heavy imaging work. I also know that you need to disable the T2 chip in a recovery mode boot. Would there be any other issues? Would this cause long term issues with the CPU or motherboard? How long will the external drive set up work?
I know folks will argue about effort and efficiency in light of a few hundred dollars, but that's not the point.
So, my friend wants to buy base model 27" iMacs on Amazon ($1,725 each), and he wants to run them off of external USB-C drives (Crucial X8 512GB SSD at $120, but he would be open to other suggestions with similar characteristics) and 16gb upgrades (OWC $70). So, with tax included, he'll be paying approximately $412 less per unit than if he bought an iMac with 3.0/16gb/512gb/570x.
Now, I know the read and write speeds will be half/slightly less than half of what you would get with the internal ssd, but he's not going to be dealing with large files or heavy imaging work. I also know that you need to disable the T2 chip in a recovery mode boot. Would there be any other issues? Would this cause long term issues with the CPU or motherboard? How long will the external drive set up work?
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