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Friends, I am from Russia. Now I'm using mac mini 2009 (9400m el capitan ram 4g). I'm happy with it but I want to buy imac. I like the design. Now I'm looking for an imac 5 years old want to use. My choice is very large over the years (imac 2010 mc 509 imac 2015 mk 442 or imac 2017 mmqa2 (2.3) I need to run bootcapm win 7 I require very little from apple. I don’t know what to choose. imac 2010 is very bad? imac 2017 is weak for my tasks? Please help. I don’t understand what to choose. Thanks to everyone who writes their review
 
I'd suggest either a 2017 or 2019 iMac.
Get one with an SSD inside if you can.
DO NOT buy one with only a platter-based hard drive -- it will be TOO SLOW.

The 27" iMac has a "door" on the back so you can add RAM yourself if you need to.
The 24" iMac doesn't -- you can't add RAM without taking the whole thing apart.
 
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I'd suggest either a 2017 or 2019 iMac.
Get one with an SSD inside if you can.
DO NOT buy one with only a platter-based hard drive -- it will be TOO SLOW.

The 27" iMac has a "door" on the back so you can add RAM yourself if you need to.
The 24" iMac doesn't -- you can't add RAM without taking the whole thing apart.
Hello everybody. Friends, I am a small home user from Russia. I want to buy imac 21.5 2011 Video card 6750 (512) . Is this card also bad and hot? The 21.5 will burn or only the 27 inch model will burn. I work 12 hours a day. If you buy a model 21.5 2010 (5750 radeon) Is this enough for 3 years? I'm also thinking of buying 21.5 (2010 mc 509) I want to learn os x well and later get a good Arm machine Now I have to use windows for work, but I don't know what will happen in a couple of years. I'm afraid to spend a lot of money on intel in vain. I think in 2 years only arm will remain and my costs will now be empty. The answer is recorded through a translator. Sorry for the mistakes and the difficulty of understanding.
 
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