My late 2013 27' iMac has been my daily workhorse for six years now, and it chugs along as well as it did the day I bought it. Is it worth investing $300 more on RAM and a new HD considering that the CPU will remain the original?Īlso, if you were going to upgrade this iMac - and wanted to do it with a low-end budget and wanted it to last a good long time - what would you do? Is there something else you would upgrade or would you simply sell it or give it to a family member who needs it or donate it for the tax right off and then buy a new machine?Īny and all thoughts and insights are much appreciated! I've checked and to sell this iMac to any of the sell-you-mac vendors - it's only worth about 250-300 bucks.

My thought is this.the ram and hd upgrades would speed things up and keep me and this older machine 'current' and running for a good bit longer. I've talked to my local authorized MAC dealer/repair place and for about $300 I can upgrade my RAM to 16 or 32gb AND purchase an external SSD drive to boot from.

I do not have any solid MAC hardware or software expertise so my thoughts may be sophomoric.so.I could use a little help. I do not need the best and the brightest and fastest anymore - however shelling out a couple of grand for a new machine isn't something I want to do or even need to do. It is slowing down and cannot or will not upgrade to Catalina.and I 'think' that the Mojave upgrade was a mistake. MY late-2017 27' iMac - 3.4 GHz intel Core i5 with 8gb of RAM and 1Tb SATA HD has outlasted any computer I've ever owned - MAC or PC.

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