Regardless of your iMac model, it is not necessary to spend several hundred pounds on a hard drive replacement and very often the repair is around the £190 mark for parts, labour and re installation of OS X.
Function is perfect with this modification and it reduces the repair cost by around £200! The cost of replacing these drives is very high, but again a generic drive can be used along with a genuine Apple external temperature sensor. On certain iMac models the Apple hard drive has a built in temperature sensor which is specific to that particular model. It is not necessary to use an Apple labelled drive however as a generic replacement of identical quality and functionality can be used with a much smaller price tag. Should the inevitable failure of the drive occur to you, it is alarmingly expensive to replace it with an original Apple drive. The situation is not helped by ingress of dust into the extensive cooling system so a top tip is to have your iMac stripped and cleaned once a year. This heat is a big enemy of hard drives and will cause earlier failure than is normal. On a side note a Mac fan controller software was also installed to slow the hard drive fan down as a modern SSD does not have a sensor socket, so the Mac cooling fan runs at 100% and is quite loud! So the software slows the fan to an acceptable level.įor more information and help with screen replacements etc Fulwood Computers are glad to help.A really common problem on iMacs unfortunately as a large amount of heat is generated inside that nice sleek aluminium housing. The Apple iMac 2012 was transformed into a fast modern iMac at the fraction of the cost of a new one.
Which initially would not install until the date was put back to 2013 on the iMac! Crazy I know! After this and logging in with the Apple ID, Fulwood Computers in Preston upgraded the Mac OS to the latest version, which was at the time High Sierra, then hey presto a fully functioning again iMac with the latest OS and Sierra browser that allowed internet access to all sites again. We fitted the SSD, with an adapter, and no heat sensor plug in, we then had to re-install the original old Mac OS Mountain Lion. The client fortunately had their data backed up on their Time Machine backup, and iCloud.
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