Repairing and upgrading my 2008 24-inch iMac.
There was major scuffing and gouging on the front fascia (it looked like the iMac had been through a hay baler) so rather than repair it like a car with body filler and a respray, I got a like new bezel from eBay for $5.00 shipped.
Since I was going to be in the iMac anyway, I salvaged the 240 GB (( mthought 250 - oh well), Pioneer branded SSD from my Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and installed it along with 4 GB of DDR2 SO-DIMMs.
I intend on doing some demoes of my MicroMV camcorder from Sony, So I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and made all concomitant upgrades to the system. I installed Opera 25, and while I say in the video that it works with RU-vid, I was wrong. I instead installed Arctic Fox 10, which does work.
Since this is not a tutorial, I will refer you to OWC's video on how to do open and upgrade a 2007-2009 24-inch iMac:
• 24-Inch iMac (2007-Ear...
Here are links to the equipment used in the video:
Pioneer SSD - www.amazon.com...
I used aa 2.5" to 3.5" SSD caddy here - www.amazon.com...
The channel is now over 400 subscribers, however, I have no plans right now, just to put out roughly one video a week.
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29 сен 2024
