I did it to my 2008 iMac and it still works well. Hard to imagine that almost 14 years old computer is functional and usable. Mine has 5 Gb of RAM, btw
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I have a late 2008 iMac a friend gave me with 6gb ram and Logic Pro installed, and just recently pulled a Kensington 500gb SSD from a PC I literally found chucked in a dumpster. May have to try this upgrade. I do audio recording and light video. Mostly on PC, but this little iMac just may have a bit more life to live as a backup, or as solid stand alone unit for hosting BiasFx or EZDrummer with my E-drums. Thanks for the video! Cheers!
Its still quit the machine for simple things, used a while also for Logic X. If you are even a bit more handy you could take a look at patching with dosdude, basically you ll be able to runner a newer version of os x on it, but you need some technical knowledge to do so. My sister still uses this machine as her daily driver with an SSD. Still going strong after 14 years!
@@PlanetFramesChannel That's awesome. Unfortunately, after 2012, and especially after 2014? Apple caught on to what people were discovering by using SSD and newer ram mods with older machines, and began incorporating "anti user upgrade" system designs and going after start up companies like iFixit. Aren't bazillion dollar corporations great?! (sarcasm) I'll stop my criticism now before I get into Kongo Cobalt mines that employ exploitive child labor abuses, and multi story Chinese manufacturing sites with "suicide netting" outside upper windows. Anyway, I'm really wanting to find a good deal on a decent 2009-2010 27" iMac to max out. These machines are genuinely engineering works of art with a lot of productive life still left in them. It's a shame Apple insists on a unsustainable natural resource hungry business model rather that encouraging self upgrade/repair sustainability IMO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ That's multinational capitalism for you. (eyeroll) Ha!
I am still using mine and couldnt be happier. Ive managed to shove Big Sur on it as the early 2008 models have a Penryn core 2 duo instead of the 2007. Amazing machine.
Its called Patching, its unofficially upgrading your Mac to newer version but not every old Mac supports it. Best to look up tutorials, but it is completely at own risk, so backup before because it can go wrong and make you lose all ypur files or corrupt harddrive. Technical experience with installations is advised.
My two words : 4Gb of Ram are too few to get a "good" user experience with Catalina. I've tried it few years ago, and I got back to Mojave. If you're lucky finding decently priced 4Gb RAM stick (I never did so far, and almost gave up searching), go and get it asap ! My second 2008 iMac (specs exactly the same : 2.4Ghz, entry level ATI GFX) is running El Capitan and Mavericks (depending on what SW I need). Like some other YTer said : "these iMac are the Mercedes-Benz of computers : they hardly ever die !"
More RAM is better indeed, have you also tried it with an SSD? Because that is a world of a difference. Have not tried Catalina yet, have tried Mojave and with that the computer felt faster than in El Capitan...only the installation is not really for beginners.
@@PlanetFramesChannel Yes I've been using small (yet expensive, at that time !) SSDs for quite a while now. In fact, years before trying to install unssuported macOS versions on my old iMacs ! I own 3 2008 20inches iMacs, 4GbRAM each. one has a 60Gb SSD, one got a 120Gb SSD; the last is no longer running macOS: it's a quick and dirty made linux web server, with its original 1Tb HDD :-)
Im running logic pro with this exact model and it still is doing its duty in my home recording studio without issues. everything has its purpose, i guess.
True, Logic works very well, so cool to hear that this Mac is still being used for getting stuff done. Before I swapped out the SSD its main purpose was running Logic and providing the sounds for my keyboard, I quite like this Mac because it still of such high quality today, the speakers blow me away everytime I listen to them.
Sweeettttt! Thanks man I saw one of these for an extremely cheap price and was contemplating on whether I should get it. I think I might get it now. Would you think adobe animate would run smoothly on here?
im running Mojave on my 8,1 (lower spec, Radeon 2400 XT and i replaced the HDD with a 320gb WD Green). Im actually writing this comment using it, was a gift from a friend a cpl years ago, even has the Magic Mouse it came with. I use it with a Software Driven Radio over USB as well as i burn off ESR patched PS2 discs, along with multimedia playback in my hobby room.
Hello i have imac (27inch late 2009) 3,06 GHz intel core 2 duo 12GB 1067 MHZ DDR3 macintosh HD ATI RADEON HD 4670 256 MB. can you tell me the price please?
Hello I'm sorry to bother but I have a 2007 IMac. In all honesty I just want to upgrade this thing to the MAX. I have no knowledge about computers whatsoever and I was curious what is the most I can do for this computer.
2018 yes, this one no. The 2008 maybe very very simple things, but it will need an older version of Adobe Illustrator for sure, but I would not recommend this iMac for Adobe Illustrator.
Just bought one of these bad boys for 30 dollars AUD. I bought it for the 4GB DDR2 ram stick until I realised it was a better machine then I wanted the RAM stick for! I have changed the operating system to Linux as El Capitan is no longer supported with security patches. It looks nice next to its late 2013 big brother on my desk.
@@rmoises8 it means it is no longer required. I stopped using it because it uses a lot of electricity for its limited processing power and I have a more modern iMac sitting next to it.
I dont know these programs, best to check the system requirements and compare them, but keep in mind that this Mac has a almost 10 year old cpu, and I can imagine that for trading (dealing with a lot of data) is quiet cpu intensive. If the software is rather new it probably wont work.
i think so too until i know 5g is not available everywhere in the world and 4g have speed limitation (only for phone and portable wifi) even when telco company said it doesn't..you need fibre optic internet connect directly to your device to experience 4g full capability..4k does watchable with phone internet but being on a phone the internet connectivity is not stable and most of the times you cant watch 4k video without it being stuck every 60 second..
definetly recommend, ssd, you will need to format and delete your harddrive anyway since it needs to be in a different format. I had Mojave Patch running and it functioned better then last officially supported OS. It is a bit tricky, but if you are bit techy its definetly worth it.
@@PlanetFramesChannel yeah ofcrs i knw how good is ssd thn hdd but i wantede some information on patcher as im new to Mac systm and all.... anyway, gonna switch to ssd asap thnx for guidance brother!
I followed a video, of course there is always a slight risk as you are running something thats not officially supported, but it ran suprisingly well onthis 2008 iMac you see in the video and had no problems. I am planning on making a video on it, but that will be released in 2 months...
Check software requirements, this one cannot run latest mac os and also performance it isnt the strongest anymore. I dont think it will work, maybe old versions will
I just been trying linux on my 2nd hand bought imac 2009, using balena etcher to make a installation media of Kubuntu(the latest version), plug the usb on the imac before pressing the power button, hold option key to access the EFi folder of the usb to boot, the good thing is, you can try the usb live media before installing, that way you can observe the Kubuntu look and feel before you install it on your imac.
works fine, attended calls with 50+ people and no problem, the built in mac is better then most laptops out there as well as the webcam has good quality.
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I did it to my 2008 iMac and it still works well. Hard to imagine that almost 14 years old computer is functional and usable.
Mine has 5 Gb of RAM, btw
Hey there, hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for sticking around! Let's see what the future brings. Always feel free to comment and give suggestion. Thanks again!
P.S.: We have a reddit now www.reddit.com/r/planetframes/
I have a late 2008 iMac a friend gave me with 6gb ram and Logic Pro installed, and just recently pulled a Kensington 500gb SSD from a PC I literally found chucked in a dumpster. May have to try this upgrade. I do audio recording and light video. Mostly on PC, but this little iMac just may have a bit more life to live as a backup, or as solid stand alone unit for hosting BiasFx or EZDrummer with my E-drums. Thanks for the video!
Cheers!
Its still quit the machine for simple things, used a while also for Logic X. If you are even a bit more handy you could take a look at patching with dosdude, basically you ll be able to runner a newer version of os x on it, but you need some technical knowledge to do so. My sister still uses this machine as her daily driver with an SSD. Still going strong after 14 years!
@@PlanetFramesChannel That's awesome. Unfortunately, after 2012, and especially after 2014? Apple caught on to what people were discovering by using SSD and newer ram mods with older machines, and began incorporating "anti user upgrade" system designs and going after start up companies like iFixit. Aren't bazillion dollar corporations great?! (sarcasm)
I'll stop my criticism now before I get into Kongo Cobalt mines that employ exploitive child labor abuses, and multi story Chinese manufacturing sites with "suicide netting" outside upper windows.
Anyway, I'm really wanting to find a good deal on a decent 2009-2010 27" iMac to max out. These machines are genuinely engineering works of art with a lot of productive life still left in them. It's a shame Apple insists on a unsustainable natural resource hungry business model rather that encouraging self upgrade/repair sustainability IMO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's multinational capitalism for you. (eyeroll)
Ha!
I’ve been waiting for the king to return!
I am still using mine and couldnt be happier. Ive managed to shove Big Sur on it as the early 2008 models have a Penryn core 2 duo instead of the 2007. Amazing machine.
Its called Patching, its unofficially upgrading your Mac to newer version but not every old Mac supports it. Best to look up tutorials, but it is completely at own risk, so backup before because it can go wrong and make you lose all ypur files or corrupt harddrive. Technical experience with installations is advised.
It's also worth saying that these computers will run Windows&Linux pretty well. an old version of macos is not your only choice!
My two words : 4Gb of Ram are too few to get a "good" user experience with Catalina.
I've tried it few years ago, and I got back to Mojave.
If you're lucky finding decently priced 4Gb RAM stick (I never did so far, and almost gave up searching), go and get it asap !
My second 2008 iMac (specs exactly the same : 2.4Ghz, entry level ATI GFX) is running El Capitan and Mavericks (depending on what SW I need).
Like some other YTer said : "these iMac are the Mercedes-Benz of computers : they hardly ever die !"
More RAM is better indeed, have you also tried it with an SSD? Because that is a world of a difference. Have not tried Catalina yet, have tried Mojave and with that the computer felt faster than in El Capitan...only the installation is not really for beginners.
@@PlanetFramesChannel Yes I've been using small (yet expensive, at that time !) SSDs for quite a while now.
In fact, years before trying to install unssuported macOS versions on my old iMacs !
I own 3 2008 20inches iMacs, 4GbRAM each. one has a 60Gb SSD, one got a 120Gb SSD; the last is no longer running macOS: it's a quick and dirty made linux web server, with its original 1Tb HDD :-)
Im running logic pro with this exact model and it still is doing its duty in my home recording studio without issues. everything has its purpose, i guess.
True, Logic works very well, so cool to hear that this Mac is still being used for getting stuff done. Before I swapped out the SSD its main purpose was running Logic and providing the sounds for my keyboard, I quite like this Mac because it still of such high quality today, the speakers blow me away everytime I listen to them.
Sweeettttt! Thanks man I saw one of these for an extremely cheap price and was contemplating on whether I should get it. I think I might get it now.
Would you think adobe animate would run smoothly on here?
Software may become obsolete but your ability to create with it never does.
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my imac 2007 has 8gb of ram and 120gb ssd runs fast with mac os monterey
2007 models only support 4gb officially and 6 unofficially
@@TheRafark 8 also works
First comment! 😄 Looks awesome!
Nice and relaxing video
im running Mojave on my 8,1 (lower spec, Radeon 2400 XT and i replaced the HDD with a 320gb WD Green). Im actually writing this comment using it, was a gift from a friend a cpl years ago, even has the Magic Mouse it came with. I use it with a Software Driven Radio over USB as well as i burn off ESR patched PS2 discs, along with multimedia playback in my hobby room.
Would be great to see a video on patching the upgrade to Catalina. Thanks.
Hello i have imac (27inch late 2009) 3,06 GHz intel core 2 duo 12GB 1067 MHZ DDR3 macintosh HD ATI RADEON HD 4670 256 MB. can you tell me the price please?
I have this pc with the same ssd, and run windows 11 without no problems
Really? How much ram you running in it?
@@damagecase13 4 gb
Hello I'm sorry to bother but I have a 2007 IMac. In all honesty I just want to upgrade this thing to the MAX. I have no knowledge about computers whatsoever and I was curious what is the most I can do for this computer.
SSD and 8GB of RAM thats it
Is the 2018 imac powerful enough to run Adobe Illustrator apps?
2018 yes, this one no.
The 2008 maybe very very simple things, but it will need an older version of Adobe Illustrator for sure, but I would not recommend this iMac for Adobe Illustrator.
Just bought one of these bad boys for 30 dollars AUD. I bought it for the 4GB DDR2 ram stick until I realised it was a better machine then I wanted the RAM stick for!
I have changed the operating system to Linux as El Capitan is no longer supported with security patches. It looks nice next to its late 2013 big brother on my desk.
Which Linux distro are you using on that IMac?
@@rmoises8 I was running Linux Mint 21 XFCE on it very nicely, but I ultimately decided it was surplus to my requirements and I have retired it.
@@JohnDoe-tn3tx What do you mean by surplus?
@@rmoises8 it means it is no longer required. I stopped using it because it uses a lot of electricity for its limited processing power and I have a more modern iMac sitting next to it.
Just finished my build. Small spare SSD, but enough. The system is revived. Running Manjaro GNU+Linux.
Is it suitable for trading ? I mean open Indo premier or mirrae asset ?
I dont know these programs, best to check the system requirements and compare them, but keep in mind that this Mac has a almost 10 year old cpu, and I can imagine that for trading (dealing with a lot of data) is quiet cpu intensive. If the software is rather new it probably wont work.
@@PlanetFramesChannel okay thankyou
Goodday cant help me may hardrive corrupt can u give or how to get and mac os thank you
I think a lot of people watch 4K videos. Especially on RUclips as those videos have a higher bitrate and will look better even on a 1080p display.
i think so too until i know 5g is not available everywhere in the world and 4g have speed limitation (only for phone and portable wifi) even when telco company said it doesn't..you need fibre optic internet connect directly to your device to experience 4g full capability..4k does watchable with phone internet but being on a phone the internet connectivity is not stable and most of the times you cant watch 4k video without it being stuck every 60 second..
Is it good to.use patcher?
Ihave 2009 imac
Same specs but 8gb ram with hdd
definetly recommend, ssd, you will need to format and delete your harddrive anyway since it needs to be in a different format. I had Mojave Patch running and it functioned better then last officially supported OS. It is a bit tricky, but if you are bit techy its definetly worth it.
@@PlanetFramesChannel yeah ofcrs i knw how good is ssd thn hdd but i wantede some information on patcher as im new to Mac systm and all....
anyway, gonna switch to ssd asap
thnx for guidance brother!
@@PlanetFramesChannel one more conformation pls
its early 2009 imac
mojave will run smoothly on it, by following your video?
I did it with dosdudes patches, its very easy tbh, i followed A youtube video, it is like installing a new os on your mac.
I followed a video, of course there is always a slight risk as you are running something thats not officially supported, but it ran suprisingly well onthis 2008 iMac you see in the video and had no problems.
I am planning on making a video on it, but that will be released in 2 months...
I hope a vídeo with os capitan
I've instaled 5 gb ram memory ;) 3+2
Why Macbook Pro 2011 Minecraft is unplayable but 2008 iMac playable?
In hindsight, i think i forgot to adjust the graphic settings on the MacBook Pro
is it compatible with adobe suite?
Check software requirements, this one cannot run latest mac os and also performance it isnt the strongest anymore. I dont think it will work, maybe old versions will
Can you upgrade the cpu and other stuff?
RAM yes; HDD yes; CPU i think its soldered in, but not sure
Linux makes it even better
suggestion for a specific linux? there are so many out there.
@@PlanetFramesChannel Linux Mint Xfce for absolute Beginners.
@@RFLCPTR Is that the one you are using?
I just been trying linux on my 2nd hand bought imac 2009, using balena etcher to make a installation media of Kubuntu(the latest version), plug the usb on the imac before pressing the power button, hold option key to access the EFi folder of the usb to boot, the good thing is, you can try the usb live media before installing, that way you can observe the Kubuntu look and feel before you install it on your imac.
@@rmoises8 When I use Linux and I can choose the distro? Yes.
can i upgrade ram to 8gb??
A quick google says 4GB max, but ive seen multiple old macs running more ram than the maximum provided by apple
6GB for the 2018 model. 2019 does 8GB.
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😅 thanks though
How about Zoom?
works fine, attended calls with 50+ people and no problem, the built in mac is better then most laptops out there as well as the webcam has good quality.