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"Vintage" products

I have a iMac(late 2013) which is really slow now. Is there nothing I can do about it? My service centre doesn't accept 'vintage' products

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 6, 2020 12:32 AM

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Technically a Late 2013 iMac should not be considered "Vintage" (barely). Not sure what you can do other than try an Apple Store or a different AASP.

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Posted on Jan 6, 2020 4:05 AM

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Jan 6, 2020 10:49 AM in response to Durga69

Follow dialabrain's advice about doing an EtreCheck report. There may be something clogging the system.


A 2013 iMac while nearly vintage is still plenty fast and handle's Catalina just fine. I'm typing on 1 now. However, its standard rotational drive is a huge bottleneck. For a relatively small price you can purchase a high quality USB 3 enclosure (check out macsales.com for the Mercury Elite Pro enclosure) and add a 256GB or larger SSD from the same site or Crucial Tech. You can use TimeMachine to restore your operating system and applications to the external drive - depending on how much data you have and what size SSD you purchase you could move everything to the SSD. That's what I did with the iMac I'm using. I now use the iMac's internal drive as my TM drive.

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