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This base-model iMac from 2013 was slow and occasionally failing to  boot. Could replacing its hard drive with an SSD give it a new lease on  life?

Teardown photos courtesy iFixit.

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Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).

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DIY 2013 iMac SSD Upgrade!

This base-model iMac from 2013 was slow and occasionally failing to boot. Could replacing its hard drive with an SSD give it a new lease on life? Teardown photos courtesy iFixit. ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).

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Anonymous

My dad's iMac had the same bootup problem. It would show up as a kernel panic and reboot every time it got close to loading up the screen after login. Turned out the mechanical hard drive was the cause, just like in your case.

Anonymous

Any plans to get a M1 iMac?

thisdoesnotcompute

Very likely, when they release the larger-screen, high-performance mdoel. Sounds like that'll be sometime next year though.