04-13-2018, 05:33 PM
DavidS,
I have that very unit, but in a 2007 model. Mine has 6GB RAM. El Capitan's Safari was just recently upgraded, and the OS has had recent Security updates. Even with the additional Ram and SSD, it still takes a while to render and burn movies using IDVD, but everything else works quite well. I think your iMac would be over-worked on his intended use of the iMac. It might handle music, but he would be disappointed with the video performance.
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I have that very unit, but in a 2007 model. Mine has 6GB RAM. El Capitan's Safari was just recently upgraded, and the OS has had recent Security updates. Even with the additional Ram and SSD, it still takes a while to render and burn movies using IDVD, but everything else works quite well. I think your iMac would be over-worked on his intended use of the iMac. It might handle music, but he would be disappointed with the video performance.
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DavidS wrote:
I have a 24" iMac, 2008 edition. Core 2 Duo, 2.8Ghz, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD. Mac2Sell says that it's worth $610, but I cannot fathom asking/getting nearly that much for a 10 year old computer.
A neighbor is interested in buying it for her 19yo son to do some music and video production. I'm not sure if it is even up to the task after upgrading the RAM to 6GB (about $70 extra), but he wants to check it out.
Any thoughts/opinions on this?