3 ms·
Apple replaced my wife's iMac rather than replace the power supply. Though they would only replace it with an i5, rather than the i7 that was in it "because th
by happymellon 3y ago
Apple replaced my wife's iMac rather than replace the power supply.
Though they would only replace it with an i5, rather than the i7 that was in it "because the next gen i5 was better than the i7". I should have just replaced the power supply myself rather than than let her get scammed like that.
- callalex 3y agoBy what metric was your older i7 better than a newer i5 other than “7 is bigger than 5”?
- happymellon 3y agoBy the metric that the system was slower to use? 2012 iMac had the i7 2600 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600+@+3.40GHz&id=1 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600+... 2013 iMac had the i5 3470 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3470+@+3.20GHz https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3470+... It was noticeable enough in Photoshop that the system ran 30% or so slower.