Hi all!
Thanks for your help and for reading this post. I’ll try to be as short as possible. I have an iMac 2010 and it’s still running like a champ today. This machine became very sluggish twice, once in 2016 when I installed Mavericks on it. So I bought some RAM, upgraded it to 14GB of RAM and then it ran like new. Last year it became very slow again but the issue went away when I emptied my 1TB HD which was almost totally full.
This year I finally had some money to upgrade this old machine. After months searching I found a great deal, a 2017 iMac (4K retina, core i5, Radeon Pro 555 2GB, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD) for 1.250 USD (yes, that’s what we call a pretty good deal here in Brazil). I bought it. When I tested it I noticed that it was running poorly, the system was sluggish but I thought “well, I’m going to format this, install Catalina and everything will run smoothly”. I went home and did that but, oh, I was wrong. Since I formatted and installed Catalina this machine is running very poorly. Compared to my 2010 iMac it’s super annoying to use this and there were times I wished to throw it in the wall.
I have screens freezing / unresponsive and loading icons all the time. I’m using it as a regular user for daily chores (Chrome browser with a few tabs opened and very lightweight apps opened like Spotify and Notes). I’d like to know if there’s a way to inspect the hardware via software to check if there’s some faulty component causing those issues. I already installed iStats Menu but I can’t see anything wrong judging by its stats.
I already bought two 8GB of RAM and I have a SSD that I want to install on it. I bought a kit to open it as well. These things are coming from China and they’ll take a long time to get to my house (2 months or so). It’s my fist time doing that and I know it’s not going to be an easy task but companies here charge 250 USD just to install RAM and SSD on an iMac (if you already bought the RAM+SSD, if not they can charge you up to 500 USD or more for this job).
I’m trying to work using this computer but it’s such a chore. I don’t have those problems with my old iMac and that bothers me. Both are running mechanical HDs so I don’t think that this machine is slow because of the HD. There are cases here in Brazil from people selling old 2013/2014 MacBook Pros that are actually 2009/2010 MacBooks. They change the About screen on the system to pass it as a newer model. So after knowing this, anything is possible, and this machine is so slow that I really doubt about its specs.
Anyway, if anyone can help me with that I’ll be very glad and grateful!
Thank you so much if you read all this rant. If you don’t want to waste your time just read the TL-DR.
TL-DR: I bought an used 2017 iMac (MRT32BZ/A) last month and it’s running slow as ****. It seems very inferior compared to my iMac 2010. I have screens freezing / unresponsive and loading icons all the time. I’m using it as a regular user for daily chores (Chrome browser with a few tabs opened and very lightweight apps opened like Spotify and Notes). I’d like to know if there’s a way to inspect the hardware via software to check if there’s some faulty component causing those issues.
Thanks for your help and for reading this post. I’ll try to be as short as possible. I have an iMac 2010 and it’s still running like a champ today. This machine became very sluggish twice, once in 2016 when I installed Mavericks on it. So I bought some RAM, upgraded it to 14GB of RAM and then it ran like new. Last year it became very slow again but the issue went away when I emptied my 1TB HD which was almost totally full.
This year I finally had some money to upgrade this old machine. After months searching I found a great deal, a 2017 iMac (4K retina, core i5, Radeon Pro 555 2GB, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD) for 1.250 USD (yes, that’s what we call a pretty good deal here in Brazil). I bought it. When I tested it I noticed that it was running poorly, the system was sluggish but I thought “well, I’m going to format this, install Catalina and everything will run smoothly”. I went home and did that but, oh, I was wrong. Since I formatted and installed Catalina this machine is running very poorly. Compared to my 2010 iMac it’s super annoying to use this and there were times I wished to throw it in the wall.
I have screens freezing / unresponsive and loading icons all the time. I’m using it as a regular user for daily chores (Chrome browser with a few tabs opened and very lightweight apps opened like Spotify and Notes). I’d like to know if there’s a way to inspect the hardware via software to check if there’s some faulty component causing those issues. I already installed iStats Menu but I can’t see anything wrong judging by its stats.
I already bought two 8GB of RAM and I have a SSD that I want to install on it. I bought a kit to open it as well. These things are coming from China and they’ll take a long time to get to my house (2 months or so). It’s my fist time doing that and I know it’s not going to be an easy task but companies here charge 250 USD just to install RAM and SSD on an iMac (if you already bought the RAM+SSD, if not they can charge you up to 500 USD or more for this job).
I’m trying to work using this computer but it’s such a chore. I don’t have those problems with my old iMac and that bothers me. Both are running mechanical HDs so I don’t think that this machine is slow because of the HD. There are cases here in Brazil from people selling old 2013/2014 MacBook Pros that are actually 2009/2010 MacBooks. They change the About screen on the system to pass it as a newer model. So after knowing this, anything is possible, and this machine is so slow that I really doubt about its specs.
Anyway, if anyone can help me with that I’ll be very glad and grateful!
Thank you so much if you read all this rant. If you don’t want to waste your time just read the TL-DR.
TL-DR: I bought an used 2017 iMac (MRT32BZ/A) last month and it’s running slow as ****. It seems very inferior compared to my iMac 2010. I have screens freezing / unresponsive and loading icons all the time. I’m using it as a regular user for daily chores (Chrome browser with a few tabs opened and very lightweight apps opened like Spotify and Notes). I’d like to know if there’s a way to inspect the hardware via software to check if there’s some faulty component causing those issues.