SMCFANCONTROL G4 UPGRADE
SMCFANCONTROL G4 PC

I feel this was the best time I could have bought an Air, as later models just got the newer generations of CPUs that are not much of a performance increase. Mid 2012 MacBook Air 13' - 2.0Ghz i7, 8gb ram, Intel HD4000 and 256gb SSD. This has been an absolutely fantastic machine and is luckily not a 32bit EFI like previous models, but Apple did cut this one off at El Capitan.

I still run SMC to keep the temps down more for peace of mind more than anything. This one also has some heat issues but never locks up or anything. 2.66ghz Core 2 Duo with 6gb ram and the 256mb HD2600. I probably need to take it apart and reapply the thermal paste or something, but alas I am too lazy.Įarly 2008 iMac - the first model to change to an aluminum case, though the back is still black plastic. I use SMC Fan Control to crank the rpms up and it mostly fixes the problem. The thread I made in the Personal Computers section was directly inspired by this thread, so I guess we can just let the one I made die.īack to the one you just repaired, how is it doing on temperature? I have the same model but with the 2.33Ghz CPU and the 256mb ATI x1600 and the thing can get hot enough to cause artifacts to show up on the screen just by watching streaming video.

SMCFANCONTROL G4 PC

If I'm buying extra monitors or something, I'd kinda rather leave them assembled given the pile of desktop PC stuff I have sitting hereĭamn Samson, I didn't notice you updated the first post to make this the general Mac thread. Simply fixing it to stock seems to be the more appealing thing to do for relatively low cost. However, the potential cost/effort of doing it just doesn't seem worth it for the rest of the hardware, and I have little in the way of donor parts that'd fit if I wanted to gut the chassis or something. I thought of it, especially since these were a downgrade in panel quality from the one you fixed (to the point that people sued Apple over it, apparently - thus is the power of a TN panel). If you're not super-concerned about keeping your iMac looking stock, you could add all kinds of creative features that Apple never saw fit to add to the iMac.

SMCFANCONTROL G4 UPGRADE

A couple ideas off the top of my head: What if you upgrade to a better monitor than the one that originally came in that iMac? For instance, what if you dropped in a higher-resolution monitor, or a touch-screen, or an HDR screen? How about a screen with a wacom stylus so you can draw right on the screen.

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