Hi, I was given a late 2009 Imac, 21.5 inch, 3.06 c2d. I was hoping someone could advise me on a few issues that I can not seem to get a straight answer from googling about it.
Can I upgrade the video card in this machine, with any standard MXM video card or am I stuck with an amd 4670 card from another Imac? (This machine currently only has the Geforce 9400) I was hoping for a card with more than 256 meg vram. Cpu upgrade, one place said it was socket "p", one place said it was not. I was hoping to squeeze some sort of core 2 quad in it, anyone actually done this successfully? What OS would be the best for this machine to run reasonably quickly? The original owners decided to buy a new macbook because when they did a OS update a few months ago (10.10.something) it got really slow. I was told that when they called Apple about it they were told that one of the "most recent" updates really slowed those machines down. I put 10.6.8 back on it which is nice and snappy, but I was wondering if 10.7, 10.8 or 10.9 would be reasonably quick. I just don't want to buy each one from the apple store just as a test to find out they are too slow. (I happened to have a 10.6 install disc). Currently the mac has 4 gig of ram, but I do intend to buy 2 more 2 gig sticks for a total of 8. Lastly on the top left of the screen there are some dark blotches, its only noticeable when there is a white screen. Most of the screen issues I read about have to do with dark areas that extend from the bottom to the top of the screen on the left side or horizontal banding. Is there a simple fix for this? Thanks for reading and I am sorry if my questions seem pedestrian, but I have no experience with Imacs. Thanks! Peter -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
