Hiya,
I've inherited an imac 2010 21.5" (i5, 4Gb, slooowww hdd).
Am considering whether to bother upgrading it, or just buy a new desktop
If I were to do these upgrades it works out at £230 or so;
4x4Gb RAM (about £80)
external firewire 800 HDD caddy (£40) (to boot OS from)
samsung evo 850 500Gb (£110)
Would those upgrades give it a decent amount of life - don't do video editing or any games that require intensive CPU usage so think the i5 is probably good enough. Also going via the firewire caddy as I don't want the faff of changing the internal hdd and it doesn't have USB 3.0
Appreciate thoughts....
I've inherited an imac 2010 21.5" (i5, 4Gb, slooowww hdd).
Am considering whether to bother upgrading it, or just buy a new desktop
If I were to do these upgrades it works out at £230 or so;
4x4Gb RAM (about £80)
external firewire 800 HDD caddy (£40) (to boot OS from)
samsung evo 850 500Gb (£110)
Would those upgrades give it a decent amount of life - don't do video editing or any games that require intensive CPU usage so think the i5 is probably good enough. Also going via the firewire caddy as I don't want the faff of changing the internal hdd and it doesn't have USB 3.0
Appreciate thoughts....
