1 - The installation video was incredibly well done and walked me through the process. The power board and the logic board were a bit tricky to remove (as the video indicates), but if you watch the video carefully, you can mimic what the tech does and get the boards out and back in without an issue.
2 - The tools and equipment provided in the "kit" are excellent and I'll be able to use them for future work on this iMac or others.
3 - The speed pickup is out of this world. I had though the iMac was somehow failing, but now realize it was just the volume of data on the disk, and the large OS X and other standard applications that were slowing it down. Won't even be thinking about a new machine any time soon.
4 - The small external drive case provided to use your old HDD as an external drive is great and I've got an adde 1TB backup drive now.
5 - Only trick is APFS and Mac OS. Installing Mojave on an external drive before doing the swap out proved a bit frustrating because even after formatting the external drive as Mac OS, when Mojave was installed on it, it changed the drive to APFS. I reformatted to Mac OS and tried again and got the same result. The result was that I could not rely on Time Machine to backup my files before the move and had to do things by hand. Luckily, the old internal drive had no issues and when i hooked up as an external drive, I was able to use Apple migration assistant to move the data from the old HDD to the new SSD.
Thanks so much for the super detailed instructions for both the hardware and disk set up/format/OS/data transition.
What a great experience. Mac Sales is awsome!
-Brian near Albany, New York
I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0GB (2x 8GB) DDR3L 1600MHz Memory Upgrade Kit w/ Installation Tools for Apple 2012 iMac 21.5". Customer Videos:everything went fine until I was getting ready to hook the display back up to do a power on test. I was holding the display with one hand and turned to get a cloth off the other desk and the display dropped off the lip of the housing and cracked of course. So that will be my next project if I can find one that don't cost as much as the Mac is worth. but everything works and it is a small crack that you can't even see when the display is on.
I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0GB (2x 8GB) DDR3L 1600MHz Memory Upgrade Kit w/ Installation Tools for Apple 2012 iMac 21.5". Customer Videos:Great website, products, service, videos, fast shipping and I could keep on and on, they are just amazing.
Thanks OWC
I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0GB (2x 8GB) DDR3L 1600MHz Memory Upgrade Kit w/ Installation Tools for Apple 2012 iMac 21.5". Customer Videos:One suggestion ... I would recommend that the screen not be reapplied with the supplied 2-sided tape until all operations are verified. I attached the screen with blue painters tape for my dry run ... good thing because I had forgot to attach the video cable.
I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0GB (2x 8GB) DDR3L 1600MHz Memory Upgrade Kit w/ Installation Tools for Apple 2012 iMac 21.5". Customer Videos:Having said that, the tools MacSales.com provides in the bundle made it easier, and the "how to video" they have goes through the process step by step, which makes it a little less daunting overall. Hindsight is 20/20, so use me as a gauge; if you're going to do this, you may want to seriously consider adding a Solid State Drive to the bundle. You're going to have to remove the drive to get to the memory anyway, so it's the perfect time to upgrade this as well. I'm kicking myself for not doing it.
I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0GB (2x 8GB) DDR3L 1600MHz Memory Upgrade Kit w/ Installation Tools for Apple 2012 iMac 21.5". Customer Videos:The fact that you can get the tools, consumables, and memory cheaper than just the memory was the part that made it so great of a deal. If you have patience and some skill's you need to freshen up your IMAC with this kit.
I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0GB (2x 8GB) DDR3L 1600MHz Memory Upgrade Kit w/ Installation Tools for Apple 2012 iMac 21.5". Customer Videos:The instructions to perform the upgrade are very clear and if you follow patiently the video provided you will be done with it in less than 30 minutes.
I was a bit worried that one (or both) of the memory sticks would be DOA and the only way to check that would be to actually install it and then open the mac back up to remove them if something failed but now I will learn to trust the OWC sticker that says "lab tested" because everything went well on the first try.
I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0GB (2x 8GB) DDR3L 1600MHz Memory Upgrade Kit w/ Installation Tools for Apple 2012 iMac 21.5". Customer Videos:We use cookies to provide you with a full shopping experience, including personalized content, and to help us improve your experience. To learn more, click here.
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