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I've got a iMac late 2012 iMac
3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
3TB Fusion Drive
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
NVIDIAGeFrc GTX 680MX 2G GDDR5
Last week I couldn't get it to boot up. I took it into the Apple Store and they told me I needed a new HDD and Flash storage (which I'm assuming is the solid state Fusion portion of the hard drive) and quoted me $542 to fix it with original Apple parts.
They also told me that since the iMac is now considered vintage/obsolete that they didn't really recommend that I fix it due to lack of parts availability if anything else goes wrong with it and the lack of support via security updates.
This is my daughters computer. She uses it for various things including drawing with a Corel drawing pad and creating youtube videos.
What are my options?
1. Repair it with original equipment. I don't like this idea because the HDD is so unreliable.
2. Repair it with a new SDD. How much is that gonna cost? Is OWC the only option? I was using 1TB of the 3TB I had installed.
3. Is a bootable external SDD an option or do I need to have an internally bootable computer to pull that off? What would be the advantages of it if I could do it?
4. What is the downside to running a computer that can't get security updates?
5. Should I just give up on the iMac?
6. If I give up on it is it worth anything to anybody else in it's current condition (excellent shape but needs new HDD and Flash storage)?
7. Any other options that I am too ignorant to know about yet?
Thanks is advance. I'd appreciate any advice at all.
3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
3TB Fusion Drive
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
NVIDIAGeFrc GTX 680MX 2G GDDR5
Last week I couldn't get it to boot up. I took it into the Apple Store and they told me I needed a new HDD and Flash storage (which I'm assuming is the solid state Fusion portion of the hard drive) and quoted me $542 to fix it with original Apple parts.
They also told me that since the iMac is now considered vintage/obsolete that they didn't really recommend that I fix it due to lack of parts availability if anything else goes wrong with it and the lack of support via security updates.
This is my daughters computer. She uses it for various things including drawing with a Corel drawing pad and creating youtube videos.
What are my options?
1. Repair it with original equipment. I don't like this idea because the HDD is so unreliable.
2. Repair it with a new SDD. How much is that gonna cost? Is OWC the only option? I was using 1TB of the 3TB I had installed.
3. Is a bootable external SDD an option or do I need to have an internally bootable computer to pull that off? What would be the advantages of it if I could do it?
4. What is the downside to running a computer that can't get security updates?
5. Should I just give up on the iMac?
6. If I give up on it is it worth anything to anybody else in it's current condition (excellent shape but needs new HDD and Flash storage)?
7. Any other options that I am too ignorant to know about yet?
Thanks is advance. I'd appreciate any advice at all.