Unfortunately, this will hardly prevent your computer from shutting down again. Once you power up your Mac after a shutdown, press Command + Alt + Esc to force quit background apps and then put your Mac to sleep, restart, or shut down from the Apple menu. This will kill the background processes, ensuring your Mac has a healthy startup. Even though your Mac is technically shut down, restart Mac once again - the proper way. Restarting your Mac is always the first idea that should come to mind.
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Likely because of the extra VRAM on the 2600 vs the 2400 and the newer SSD is quicker even on a SATA II system.Try free How to fix your Mac shutting down It runs Yosemite noticeably better than our '07. Just put a new 500GB SSD in it a few months back since the stock HDD was on it's way out. My brother has a 2008 iMac with the 2600 pro so it's great to hear that it runs well at least. Either way this thing has had a very long life for a computer that is has been used on a daily basis since August of 2007 when we got it. They're in the process of moving and it won't fit where it's going so it'll either be reassigned to the basement or I may ask if I can have it just because.
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Though my mother probably wouldn't ever know the difference and would happily be sitting on Tiger if I didn't update it for her every year, haha. It's not slow by any means and apps launch almost instantly thanks to the SSD, but the frame drops are annoying to me. It ran Mavericks perfectly but Yosemite started to stress out the old ATI card with all the transparency effects. Great to hear! My mother has the base model 20" 2007 iMac (2.0GHz and the one with the 128MB 2400XT) but upgraded to 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD in 2012 when Mountain Lion was sucking big time on the stock 2GB/250GB HDD.
Overall though very very pleased with the performance given the age of the machine and being above minimum but below the recommended RAM.Īnything anyone wants me to try and test (as long as it doesn't require paid for apps) let me know. So this is basically the lowest spec machine (bar the extra gig over minimum of RAM) that will run El Capitan.Ī few things I have noticed are occasionally when interacting with menu bar over videos playing in Safari the videos drop a few frames and appear to stutter (Netflix)Īlso surprisingly as this machine doesn't support AirPlay mirroring due to its age, the AirPlay icon appears in Safari as if it could send the video to the AppleTV although not tested yet as wife is using the TV lol. I am rocking a base model 20" iMac Mid 2007 with upgraded Ram to 3GB, 320GB HDD, 2.4GHZ Core 2 Duo, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro with 256MB of memory.
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I did a clean install off a USB stick and then used migration assistant to move all my stuff from my MacBook Pro onto the iMac so its basically a clone of my MacBook.įor an 8 year old machine it runs surprisingly well, very little lagging, animations are smooth, and generally it runs very well.
Just got my 8 year old iMac back off my In-Laws as they've just upgraded to a MacBook Air as they are moving from a house into a flat so no room for a 20" iMac.įirst thing I did upon getting it home was to install a fresh install of OSX 10.11 El Capitan DP1 to see how it runs compared to me mid 2012 Non Retina MacBook Pro.