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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1941152" data-attributes="member: 234411">Hi Poppi - others will likely reply before I post, so my comments may or may not be in complete agreement - you be the judge. Well, Jake also suggested a 1 TB storage SSD, but if you trimmed down apps not needed and kept your pics on the EHD, the 512 GB might be enough - that's what my wife's iMac has but she does not have a large photo nor music collection (her SSD is only about a third filled and unlikely to get larger.CDs built into Apple Macs disappeared a dozen or so years ago - I have an Apple SuperDrive that has been in use since 2013 and still works fine - external CD/DVD drives are cheap.8 GB RAM should be enough unless to plan multi-monitor use or much heavy-duty audio/video editing - BUT just to be safe, I went with 16 GB - your decision.iTunes was split-up about 5 years ago and its functions are handled in the Music App, in Finder, and several newer apps.I use mainly Safari - which one is superior?&nbsp; The opinion you received was from an Apple employee?Well, that is one way to handle the change over - you could do the process at home - again up to you.&nbsp; Good luck.&nbsp; Dave</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1941152, member: 234411"] Hi [B]Poppi[/B] - others will likely reply before I post, so my comments may or may not be in complete agreement - you be the judge. Well, [B]Jake[/B] also suggested a 1 TB storage SSD, but if you trimmed down apps not needed and kept your pics on the EHD, the 512 GB might be enough - that's what my wife's iMac has but she does not have a large photo nor music collection (her SSD is only about a third filled and unlikely to get larger. CDs built into Apple Macs disappeared a dozen or so years ago - I have an Apple SuperDrive that has been in use since 2013 and still works fine - external CD/DVD drives are cheap. 8 GB RAM should be enough unless to plan multi-monitor use or much heavy-duty audio/video editing - BUT just to be safe, I went with 16 GB - your decision. iTunes was split-up about 5 years ago and its functions are handled in the Music App, in Finder, and several newer apps. I use mainly Safari - which one is superior? The opinion you received was from an Apple employee? Well, that is one way to handle the change over - you could do the process at home - again up to you. Good luck. Dave [/QUOTE]

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