I bought a 2013 21” iMac from a friend in 2022, whose hybrid drive had died. He tried to put in a new HDD, but destroyed the screen cable opening it, so he bought a 2019 one and sold it to me dirt cheap. I ordered a new cable, a 1 TB ssd, and it was as good as new. I sold ot this year because I had too many computers. 😂
The easy upgrade is an external SSD as a boot disk, I run my 2014 27” this way and use it as my daily driver. USB 3 is fast enough with roughly 400+ MB/s for normal day to day work. Even putting in an internal SATA SSD does not give you much more speed.
Change the drive to a SSD, hard disc drives are just too old fashion. I own a 2011 Mac, replace the drive to SSD, changed the fans and it still rocks. Add more RAM like you said and check if the cooling fans are running properly while you have the Mac open if you decide to change the drive to SSD.
I use a late 2013 i5 iMac as a "head unit" for streaming music on my home audio setup.....It runs Spotify like a champ. USB-out to a budget Schiit DAC then to my Harmon Kardon Amp.
With how ebay has been adding so many fees, I am tempted to just to the Facebook Marketplace route as a seller. How do you typically do it when you are selling an iMac? Do you have people come to your home so that you can show it working? Do you meet up somewhere and plug it in at a coffee shop or something? I liked eBay because you don’t have to meet people face to face but the fees are just outrageous.
Great question. I use FB Marketplace exclusively now vs EBay for those same reasons. And nobody comes to the house, I meet at a shopping center and use a small power station (I review so many of them on the channel) to power up computers from the trunk of my suv.
Actually, some model numbers are shared over several years of iMacs, and vastly different specs. The serial number can be looked up to get a much closer list of actual specs, but I figured since I probably had to reinstall macOS, and actually test out the computer, I might as well explain the whole process. Thanks for watching!
You are right. I use that all the time. But I figured if I had to reinstall macOS, might as well make a video so people can learn ways to diagnose, etc.
Target display mode stopped on the 2014 models, so you'd have to use an adapter like @acubey said. This product should work: th-cam.com/video/thFhg1MRf4w/w-d-xo.html
I might just go ahead and go ahead then go ahead on that then i will go ahead and do this then go head and do that and take ages and ramble like a champion pulling cones then i will go ahead and go head
I was just trying to explain to people my thought process in case someone else wants to try something similar. A lot of my channel helps educate people on these older products. If you don’t care about that part, feel free to use the little time bar thingy and fast forward to where you see the screen turned on. But thanks for enduring my rambling, and thanks for the engagement!
I bought a 2013 21” iMac from a friend in 2022, whose hybrid drive had died. He tried to put in a new HDD, but destroyed the screen cable opening it, so he bought a 2019 one and sold it to me dirt cheap.
I ordered a new cable, a 1 TB ssd, and it was as good as new.
I sold ot this year because I had too many computers. 😂
The easy upgrade is an external SSD as a boot disk, I run my 2014 27” this way and use it as my daily driver. USB 3 is fast enough with roughly 400+ MB/s for normal day to day work. Even putting in an internal SATA SSD does not give you much more speed.
Change the drive to a SSD, hard disc drives are just too old fashion. I own a 2011 Mac, replace the drive to SSD, changed the fans and it still rocks. Add more RAM like you said and check if the cooling fans are running properly while you have the Mac open if you decide to change the drive to SSD.
Not sure you can upgrade the RAM on the 21.5 model. You can do it on the 27" for sure. I think this machine has soldered memory.
You’re right. At the time, I was thinking about the 27”, because that’s the only model I usually deal with, lol. But for $50 I made an exception.
I use a late 2013 i5 iMac as a "head unit" for streaming music on my home audio setup.....It runs Spotify like a champ. USB-out to a budget Schiit DAC then to my Harmon Kardon Amp.
With how ebay has been adding so many fees, I am tempted to just to the Facebook Marketplace route as a seller. How do you typically do it when you are selling an iMac? Do you have people come to your home so that you can show it working? Do you meet up somewhere and plug it in at a coffee shop or something? I liked eBay because you don’t have to meet people face to face but the fees are just outrageous.
Great question. I use FB Marketplace exclusively now vs EBay for those same reasons. And nobody comes to the house, I meet at a shopping center and use a small power station (I review so many of them on the channel) to power up computers from the trunk of my suv.
@@FamilyGeekery That’s a good idea. Do people usually just pay cash or Venmo? I like to sell tech gear and sometimes they can be quite a bit of money.
@KadMac25 I only accept cash, since they changed the tax laws for digital payments here (US).
@@FamilyGeekery Good point!
Try to install aSSD and the latest OS with Open Core Legacy Patcher, so will maximise your profit If you plan to sell it.
Sell any Mac with OCLP and you're asking for a world of pain of endless support requests...
You are my hero Chris! Well done!
You can also replace the cpu with an i7. But ram and ssd would be a nice one!
It's got a model # on it that you can look up.
Actually, some model numbers are shared over several years of iMacs, and vastly different specs. The serial number can be looked up to get a much closer list of actual specs, but I figured since I probably had to reinstall macOS, and actually test out the computer, I might as well explain the whole process. Thanks for watching!
I like to make install usb, is there an easy way?
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Plug in the serial number to appe support to get the year but that would spoil the mystery of the video wouldn't it
You are right. I use that all the time. But I figured if I had to reinstall macOS, might as well make a video so people can learn ways to diagnose, etc.
Thanks for the video. Do you know one can use this iMac 2013 as second monitor?
I think the only way is with a HDMI USB in adapter. Then you'd be running 2 computer to run 1 computer. 😕
Target display mode stopped on the 2014 models, so you'd have to use an adapter like @acubey said. This product should work: th-cam.com/video/thFhg1MRf4w/w-d-xo.html
@@acubley Thank you!
@@FamilyGeekery Thank you, I'll check your video!
@@lucalvs5069 You're welcome. I wish they'd make a law to require HDMI in on every all-in-one machine. Save a lot from the landfill.
The version of MacOS is obsolete. Install Linux on it.
Nice
I vote for upgrade RAM and storage if your budget permits.
Upgrading the RAM on the 21” is a bisch… 😂
you take forever to turn it in ffs ramble on and on
I might just go ahead and go ahead then go ahead on that then i will go ahead and do this then go head and do that and take ages and ramble like a champion pulling cones then i will go ahead and go head
I was just trying to explain to people my thought process in case someone else wants to try something similar. A lot of my channel helps educate people on these older products. If you don’t care about that part, feel free to use the little time bar thingy and fast forward to where you see the screen turned on. But thanks for enduring my rambling, and thanks for the engagement!