The hard drive in [Jason’s] 24″ iMac was on the blink. He decided that instead of just swapping out the bad drive for a traditional unit he would upgrade to a solid state drive. Tearing apart high-end ...

Since upgrading to a Macbook Air, my 'beast' of an i7 iMac now feels pokey, constrained by it's slow I/O. But the monitor is still great and I like the form factor with built-in DVD drive, so I can't ...

I love Retina iMacs. So much so that I took a chance and bought a used 2015 low-end Core i5 iMac with a 1TB Fusion Drive (which combines a 24GB NVMe SSD and a 1TB hard drive)—a machine that’s actually ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to do more with your consumer gadgets. A few weeks into this series, I got an interesting email from ...

In our ongoing effort to provide benchmark data to help you choose the right iMac, we now present test results from a 21.5-inch 2.7GHz Core i5 iMac with a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD). You can use ...

The teardown team at iFixit has taken the time to give a full run-down to the iMac reboot series appearing this week from Apple. What you'll find is a build quite similar to last year's collection of ...

iFixit discovered yesterday that the RAM in the new 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display was upgradable, and a day later is already offering a kit to take advantage of this fact. The firm notes that ...

The hard drive in [Jason’s] 24″ iMac was on the blink. He decided that instead of just swapping out the bad drive for a traditional unit he would upgrade to a solid state drive. Tearing apart high-end ...

s, or solid-state drives, are all the rage in portables these days. They come in MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs directly from Apple (with the appropriate upgrades, of course), and we've seen people ...

Sure. If memory serves, that model had USB 3 + Thunderbolt 2 ports on the back. Get a small USB3 external case (single-drive Thunderbolt cases are rare, expensive, and don't provide any significant ...