{"id":6536,"date":"2010-08-11T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=6536"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:36:42","slug":"mid-2010-27-imac-turnkey-upgrade-benchmarks-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/6536-mid-2010-27-imac-turnkey-upgrade-benchmarks-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid 2010 27&#8243; iMac Turnkey Upgrade Benchmarks Posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DataTransferRates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6537\" title=\"DataTransferRates\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DataTransferRates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DataTransferRates.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DataTransferRates-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DataTransferRates-284x122.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/DataTransferRates-190x82.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve been getting a lot of traffic regarding our <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/turnkey\/iMac_2010_27\">OWC Turnkey Upgrade Program for the 2010 Apple iMac 27&#8243;<\/a> that allows you to customize your iMac with a high-performance eSATA interface port, OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSDs up to 480GB, hard drives up to 2TB, and\/or OWC Memory Upgrades up to 16GB complete with shipping and warranty.\u00a0The question asked most often though, seems to be what exactly is the benefit of upgrading my new iMac?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the OWC Test lab has been a busy place and we&#8217;re pleased to announce that we&#8217;ve begun gathering the scientific data to show you just how fast you can make your iMac.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6548 alignleft\" title=\"TurnkeyAd\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurnkeyAd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurnkeyAd.png 282w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurnkeyAd-180x120.png 180w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurnkeyAd-190x127.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve real-world tested the eSATA port and found data transfer rates are <strong>up to 3.3 times faster<\/strong> than FireWire 800 and an amazing <strong>7.5 times faster<\/strong> than USB 2.0! We&#8217;ve put together hard drive configurations that achieve data transfer rates up to <strong>6 times faster<\/strong> than the original stock hard drive alone! In adding more memory to an iMac, we&#8217;ve almost <strong>cut the processing time in half<\/strong> on our test machine.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details, see our findings at <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/turnkey\/iMac_2010_27\">https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/turnkey\/iMac_2010_27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been getting a lot of traffic regarding our OWC Turnkey Upgrade Program for the 2010 Apple iMac 27&#8243; that allows you to customize your iMac with a high-performance eSATA interface port, OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSDs up to 480GB, hard drives up to 2TB, and\/or OWC Memory Upgrades up to 16GB complete with shipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119,3766],"class_list":["post-6536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benchmarkingperformance","category-testing-lab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2 (Yoast SEO v20.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mid 2010 27&quot; iMac Turnkey Upgrade Benchmarks Posted<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the benefit of upgrading a new iMac through the OWC Turnkey Upgrade Program for the 2010 Apple iMac 27&quot;? 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