{"id":931,"date":"2009-04-24T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T16:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:41:48","slug":"make-your-old-mac-feel-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/931-make-your-old-mac-feel-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Old Mac Feel New"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our versatile and fearless leader Larry O’Connor has posted an informative article in our Quick Tips area, titled “Make your Current Mac feel like it’s a New Mac again!<\/a>” This concise article links to helpful tidbits on how you can possibly get better performance out of your old Mac by upgrading some of its parts, than if you plop down that fortune on a brand new machine.<\/p>\n

The article also links to an archived newsletter (linked below) that details how you can add RAM, a hard drive, faster DVD, or even replace your video card and\/or processor to create your dream machine. All at a fraction of the cost of a new machine.<\/p>\n

I know the “Speedbump that current Mac for that ‘New’ Mac feeling<\/a>” article was useful to me, because I upgraded an old 500 MHz G4 AGP Graphics tower with one of OWC’s PowerMac processor upgrades<\/a> and now use that machine solely for scanning photos, something it couldn’t do before. It’s convenient to have a workstation devoted to a life’s work that involves multiple pieces of hardware, which I don’t have to move out of the way when I need to work; I have an Intel Mac for that! Plus, scanning my thousands of photos gives that doorstop a purpose in life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our versatile and fearless leader Larry O’Connor has posted an informative article in our Quick Tips area, titled “Make your Current Mac feel like it’s a New Mac again!” This concise article links to helpful tidbits on how you can possibly get better performance out of your old Mac by upgrading some of its parts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":934,"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":[4],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"yoast_head":"\nMake Your Old Mac Feel New<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tips and links to upgrade your old Mac!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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