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We have a 2011 27" i5 iMac, 512mb graphics card. It's had various upgrades along the way, now has 32gb ram, a 1tb SSD as well as 3td HDD.
It's soldiered on pretty nicely generally but I'm now experiencing some real slow down with Lightroom in particular but also my wife does a little video editing with iMovie. At times it's almost unusable for both.
Not much has changed really that I can tell. There is plenty of space on both drives. LR catalogue sits on the SSD. Photos and video files sit on the HDD. That's how it's been for a couple of years and was mostly fine until recently. I did move to a 36mp camera from using 24mp generally in the past but that was almost 2 years ago now.
I notice the back of the imac gets very hot. You can hold your hand on it but I'd guess it's a good 60 deg C or more. I notice that the computer performance often starts off okay and gets slower the longer we use it. Or seemingly so.
Have tried a few of the usual methods of cleaning things up but it's not really made much difference. I also gave the rear air vent a good hoover. Nothing seems to have helped much.
So, am I to conclude that the constant updates and additional features of the new operating system and LR et al means that our poor little imac just can't cope anymore or are there some radical things I can try to eeek some more life out of it?
In fairness, 8 years is a good innings if we do need to replace it, so I'll not be too upset. Only question then is just how far we go with spec'ing out a new one. Not cheap are they?!
It's soldiered on pretty nicely generally but I'm now experiencing some real slow down with Lightroom in particular but also my wife does a little video editing with iMovie. At times it's almost unusable for both.
Not much has changed really that I can tell. There is plenty of space on both drives. LR catalogue sits on the SSD. Photos and video files sit on the HDD. That's how it's been for a couple of years and was mostly fine until recently. I did move to a 36mp camera from using 24mp generally in the past but that was almost 2 years ago now.
I notice the back of the imac gets very hot. You can hold your hand on it but I'd guess it's a good 60 deg C or more. I notice that the computer performance often starts off okay and gets slower the longer we use it. Or seemingly so.
Have tried a few of the usual methods of cleaning things up but it's not really made much difference. I also gave the rear air vent a good hoover. Nothing seems to have helped much.
So, am I to conclude that the constant updates and additional features of the new operating system and LR et al means that our poor little imac just can't cope anymore or are there some radical things I can try to eeek some more life out of it?
In fairness, 8 years is a good innings if we do need to replace it, so I'll not be too upset. Only question then is just how far we go with spec'ing out a new one. Not cheap are they?!
