Bryan4747

Q: Speeding up my Early 2008 iMac

Hello everyone!

I'm a big apple nut and have more apple devices in my house than I'd care to say

My main computer right now is my 2011 Macbook Pro 8g ram quad core 64bit and it runs

without a hiccup. Same goes for my iPad and my favorite the new 6 plus!

 

In August 2008 as I prepared to go to college I wanted to build my own PC because I was into that

sort of thing and my parents told me they would get me any mac they just would prefer I have something

reliable at school. So needless to say I picked the 24inch iMac with the largest HD and the fastest processor apple offered and the

computer ran great and was very powerful when it came to handling processor intensive things. Now

sadly its on a desk in a room that gets used very little and I always think what a shame that such a nice computer

is already outdated. The maximum RAM the motherboard supposedly will support is 4GB so I am very limited there.

I want to speed this computer up like new I'm just not sure how? Is a 6 year old machine dated? I thought thats why

we buy apple for the quality and we know it will last. I will copy the specs down and post them. I'm always fixing peoples

windows machines and I don't really know how to rejuvenate a mac.

Here are my specs:

Please help me restore this beautiful mac to 2008 condition !

 

Introduced

April 2008

Current OS  

OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

Model Number

A1225

Processor              

IntelCore2Duo (E8235,E8435)"Penryn"

Processor Speed    

3.06 GHz

Architecture          

64-bit

Number of Cores   

2

Cache                    

6 MB shared L2 cache at full cpu speed

System Bus            

1066 MHz

Storage                  

1 TB 7200-rpm

Maximum Memory

  1. 6.0 GB (Actual)
  2. 4.0 GB (Apple) Maximum Memory

Installed Memory

4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Memory Slots

2 - 200-pin PC2-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM

Graphics Card

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Memory

512 MB (GeForce 8800 GS) GDDR3

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Sep 26, 2014 3:25 AM

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