Re: Extending the life of an old iMac - Overheating, Windows, etc.

2016-01-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Eric Volker wrote: > > My second question relates to Boot Camp and Windows. The logical version to > install would be Windows 7, but only 32-bit OS’s are supported on this iMac. > Where on earth would I find a 32-bit version of Windows 7? > I would avoid messi

Re: Extending the life of an old iMac - Overheating, Windows, etc.

2016-01-27 Thread Google
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Eric Volker wrote: > > I’m actually pretty lucky as far as longevity goes. My old mid-2007 iMac will > still run the latest OS, making it among the oldest devices to do so. Even > so, it has a few problems. > > Chief among them is what I think is a bad heat pip

Extending the life of an old iMac - Overheating, Windows, etc.

2016-01-27 Thread Eric Volker
I’m actually pretty lucky as far as longevity goes. My old mid-2007 iMac will still run the latest OS, making it among the oldest devices to do so. Even so, it has a few problems. Chief among them is what I think is a bad heat pipe on the GPU - it rapidly overheats if I play any 3d games. I had al