Comments on: Mac tip: A “magic bullet” for speeding up a sluggish Mac? https://heresthethingblog.com/2016/01/27/mac-tip-magic-bullet-speeding/ Making sense of gadgets and technology Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:41:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: davidofkent https://heresthethingblog.com/2016/01/27/mac-tip-magic-bullet-speeding/#comment-3524 Thu, 26 May 2016 20:02:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=21130#comment-3524 In reply to Ben Patterson.

I did this last year (summer 2015) on the same model. It needed care but with the help of the OWC video (I think) it went smoothly. Installing OSX Yosemite on the new SSD was completely straightforward. I think this is a 6 out of 10 level of doability for amateurs. I should add that I replaced the ODD with the SSD and left myself the existing 1TB HDD. The ODD went into an external enclosure. Oddly enough, when I upgraded to El Capitan it took a lot of fiddling to get the ODD to read a CD/DVD and it still won’t write to a DVD-R.

]]> By: Erling Storvik https://heresthethingblog.com/2016/01/27/mac-tip-magic-bullet-speeding/#comment-3522 Sun, 15 May 2016 22:19:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=21130#comment-3522 In reply to Ben Patterson.

Yes that sounds risky, it’s a lot easier on a laptop and Mac mini 🙂

]]> By: Ben Patterson https://heresthethingblog.com/2016/01/27/mac-tip-magic-bullet-speeding/#comment-3521 Sat, 14 May 2016 13:34:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=21130#comment-3521 So I just went through this process myself — I swapped the optical drive in my iMac for a new SSD. Yes, my (2009) iMac is a lot speedier, but the installation was pretty hairy; I had to remove the LCD panel from my iMac to get to the drives, and then it took several tries to get OS X installed on the new SSD. It can be done, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re comfortable poking around the guts of a computer.

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