iPhone and Computer Repair Shop
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In Business Since 2007
9 Palm Harbor Village Way Suite B
Palm Coast, Florida, 32137
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(386) 597-2932
Mac Laptops and Desktop Repair

Software & Operating Systems Issues:

Is your Mac freezing or are you having difficulties installing or re-installing your Operating System or trying to upgrade to the latest OS? Let us help you! We guarantee you won't lose any of your documents, photos, or data. We can easily reinstall any Operating System for you, we always save and backup all your data before doing anything!
Give your iMac or MacBook a New Lease of Life with our SSD Upgrade Service
Benefits of an Apple SSD upgrade include:
Will an SSD make my iMac go Faster
Will an SSD make my iMac/MacBook go faster?

An SSD will make your iMac go blisteringly fast. The difference in speed is not just incremental – it is substantial. A quick search on Google will confirm this. Anybody who has upgraded their iMac hard disk to SSD has not looked back.

My iMac is running slow and I frequently see “spinning beachballs”, even when running basic applications such as email. Will an SSD make it faster?

An SSD will make your iMac run substantially faster and should eliminate your “spinning beachball” problem.

Why didn’t my iMac come with an SSD when I bought it?

After all, I paid enough for it.
This is an answer we also want to know! Apple puts SSDs in all its top-of-the-range systems but not in all of its entry or mid-range systems. Maybe this is a form of built-in obsolescence or Apple wants you to buy their top-of-the-range systems!

Why should I upgrade my iMac to an SSD?

SSDs are ultra-fast disks that use NAND flash to store your operating system and data, as opposed to spinning platters as found on mechanical disks. This makes both data read and write speeds blisteringly fast. In terms of end-user computing, they have probably been the greatest revolution in computing in the last 10 years. Unfortunately, there are loads of iMac users out there with a great system that is being held back by the slow and lagging performance of mechanical disks. Even though you might be using the latest version of macOS, your iMac is still slow and you’re frequently seeing “spinning beachballs”. Assuming there are no underlying issues, an SSD will banish these speed-related issues. On modern operating systems like High Sierra and Mojave - the difference in overall system performance between HDD and SSD is like night and day.

I upgraded my 2012 iMac to Sierra, but the system just crawls along.
The dirty little secret of Apple is that their operating systems from (and including) macOS Sierra (10.12) onwards perform really poorly when they are used in conjunction with mechanical hard disks. This has annoyed many users. They upgrade their OS in the erroneous belief that it will make their system perform better. But if you upgrade your iMac with a recent version of macOS such as High Sierra or Mojave – without an SSD – it can make it perform worse, not better. This is because recent versions of macOS are optimised to run on SSDs and not mechanical disks. The good news is that we can solve this problem by professionally installing a new high-quality SSD along with the latest version of macOS that your system is capable of. This will breathe new life into your system and prolong its productive life.

Should I not just upgrade the RAM instead of the SSD to make my iMac faster?

You can upgrade the RAM in your iMac but unless you have an extremly small amount onboard, for example less than 8GB, the difference won’t be as noticeable as an SSD upgrade. In fact, we have often come across otherwise healthy iMac systems with 16GB of RAM onboard suffering from persistent “beachballing”. The problem only subsiding after an SSD upgrade was performed - much to the users delight! Upgrading the RAM would have been a great solution maybe 10 years ago but not in this era of solid state disks.