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Never Buy an Apple iMac Without Fusion Drive
- finneganscat 7y agoI just did an ifixit self-upgrade of my late 2014 Mac mini. For a small price of $65 for Crucial SSD, $25 for ifixit toolkit and $5 for logic board removal tool, I successfully completed surgery on my Mac mini. It is so much faster! It’s a shame that APFS has led Apple into making dinosaurs out of Macs with rotational drives for startup, especially since you need to be a surgeon to replace it yourself with an SSD. Thankfully, I didn’t damage the very tiny connectors. My Windows 10 laptop is from the same era, with similar CPU and memory. It has no problem running the most recent Windows updates without any hour glass waiting. I’m thankful that I upgraded, it’s like getting a new Mac for under $100, but Apple should respect rotational disks. APFS is the reason.
- pathartl 7y agoObviously this article isn't written for the technically-oriented, for those who might say "well duh". I do find it surprising you can still find computers that come with just a spinning rust drive, let alone in a "premium" machine like the Mac is advertised as.
- praveenscience 7y agoI thought most of the Windows Machines you buy come with 5400 RPM spinning 1 TB HDD and not much people fancy the 256 GB costlier version of SSD. At least, this is the case in India.
- merlyn 7y agoSo does the base iMac. The rust based drive is incredibly slow. For some generations of imac's, we had a 100% failure rate over long period of time of spinning disks. When I was buying iMacs for my company, all the SSD models were special order, wait a few weeks to build.