I used to work at AppleCare about 10 yrs ago. We used 2010 iMacs for our everyday work. Apple decided to upgrade all of the iMacs in our building to a newer model and when they did, we all got to take our iMacs home and keep them. I still have mine and I will say, mine has zero fan problems and still works like the day I got it. I only use it to watch CZcams and answer emails (very light work) but the 2010 iMac was well above its time and most people who see it are like "wow you have an iMac? That's fancy" the normal everyday person can't even tell it's an old model.
About the fans... 'Macs Fan Control' can be installed and not only does the job but you can put custom thresholds in place in addition. Makes the machine under almost all conditions working quite silently. cheers
You couldn't be more correct when you said the 2010 iMac doesn't look like it's a 14 year old computer. I am semi new to Mac's and work at an MSP. A clients iMac started kernel panicking and they finally caved for the upgrade. Since we are primarily a Windows house, I didn't have to fight anyone over taking it home lol. Thing is.. I thought this was some moderately recent workstation iMac! I thought I had just made a big come up and started looking up videos for opening 2019 iMacs (LOL!!) but everything was so slim and glued together. As I am watching a video talking about the difference between newer and older iMac's, I suddenly was able to pop the front glass cover off cleanly and was immediately disappointed for a moment as I began to realize this was gonna have a very early i3. Once I got to the mechanical drive (it's what caused the kernel panic. can't boot the kernel if you get to it..) I confirmed the manufacturing date of October 4, 2010. Since I don't have any mechanical to 2.5in SSD brackets, I dropped in a 2TB WD Gold as a place holder to see if I could even get it to reinstall macOS. Sure enough I was able to get into recovery and get High Sierra proper installed. Your video has given me hope that this may still turn out to be something worth putting a little effort into. I didn't realize I could upgrade the CPU to some extent! And I know I can add 2 more sticks of RAM. I can live without upgrading the GPU. Just having the discreet GPU is enough for me instead of the iGPU chugging along.
Have a late 2009 27” iMac that’s still takes care of my personal computer needs. Upgraded to SSD recently as the old HDD started to develop issues. With the two way DisplayPort it’s such a convenient home office setup. Hook up my work laptop and the iMac serves as a decent external monitor for my work even by todays standards. With the SSD upgrade and much of my processing needs offloaded to the cloud (like Lightroom CC) it feels almost snappier than 5-6 years ago.
Dual booting to Linux alone made this machine amazingly usable again; however, upgrading from 4gb of memory to 12gb made the Mac os go from absolutely useless to super functional. It's my wife's machine and she just used it for office work so I don't think I will be upgrading to an ssd.
You know, It’s interesting you can just short that cable. I’ve had to get OWC sensor for it to work properly and actually read temperatures. I’ve got mine 2010 iMac 3 years ago for 50$. Still had its warranty stickers inside. Had to clean it and replace thermal paste. Overall, it’s still a very capable machine if you upgrade SSD and RAM. You can also upgrade its processor to i7-860s or i5-680.
I’ll definitely consider upgrading to the i7-860s some day. Shockingly the weakling i3 does well for what it’s worth. Anyways, it’s funny that shorting that cable works!
great video, i bought same specs but with 8gb of RAM, youtube video scrolling and page scrolling is really laggy, did you have same issues with 8GB and will 16GB reduce that lag ?
I just dug mine up and I'm tapping this on it so it works but it is really slow so I need to upgrade mine from a 500g hard drive to 200gb ssd I won't need a lot of storage because it will only be used to watch movies, I will also upgrade the 4gb of ram to 8 or 16
I'm using my 2010 27-inch Mac as a display for my 2023 Mac mini M2. It works great. A lot better than spending $1500 on an Apple Studio Display!@@BlazeTechOffical
Did you have any issues getting patched Catalina running well? I’ve heard that it doesn’t run well on anything with Radeon 5xxx and 6xxx graphics due to lacking GPU acceleration, so I assumed the 4670 in here would also be a problem.
Hi which Catalina Patcher have you used? The one from dosguy say it is incomparable with ATI graphics card of an imac model 11.3. Do you have any advice? Thx in advanced
My advice is to not install Catalina as the Radeon HD5xxx and HD6xxx cards are terrible with macOS. But If you have the Radeon HD 4xxx then it WILL work.
I recently found an iMac A1312 in a dumpster. Not sure if it works correctly, but can an external GPU - one with better performance - be connected? I am not sure but I think the 1GB (?) VRAM GPU is thus highest the iMac can support. I might be wrong! Thank you 🤓
I did take Mac fan control into consideration but I didn't want to sit and fix fan curve (im sure its much faster than what i did lol) but I did upgrade and clean up the inside with the motive to short the HDD temp wires together
It’s definitely a thing to consider and I was thinking about it. I didn’t want to sacrifice a ton of performance because I think ventura with the iMac’s current specs is definitely pushing it. For now, Catalina is ok; definitely better than high Sierra. 😅
you can erase the HDD or SSD from system recovery which is built into Macs, of you can go ahead and replace the drive for a faster one and reinstall macOS that way.
i know this is unrelated but give the Quran a read, also very insightful video man, ive had a powerpc g4 mac when i was a kid and i lost it and man nostalgia hit hard and now im looking for something that can run that old mac os x tiger and leopard and make me feel how i felt the 1st time booting up that g4
I used to work at AppleCare about 10 yrs ago. We used 2010 iMacs for our everyday work. Apple decided to upgrade all of the iMacs in our building to a newer model and when they did, we all got to take our iMacs home and keep them. I still have mine and I will say, mine has zero fan problems and still works like the day I got it. I only use it to watch CZcams and answer emails (very light work) but the 2010 iMac was well above its time and most people who see it are like "wow you have an iMac? That's fancy" the normal everyday person can't even tell it's an old model.
I just thrifted one today and want to see if I can use it !! It does turn on
Well done on a short but informative video. I look forward to more!
Thanks!
About the fans... 'Macs Fan Control' can be installed and not only does the job but you can put custom thresholds in place in addition. Makes the machine under almost all conditions working quite silently. cheers
I have the same one and it still runs perfectly fine and I play Roblox and browse the internet and it doesn't overheat or anything
Awesome!
Does the fact that it doesn't have any more updates change anything?
@@ImmortalWitchOff Not Really
@@ImmortalWitchOffI downloaded the Catalina Patcher and it works Amazing
@@Barbie_Thingz69yeah but it fucks up the keyboard and mouse🤦🏽
You couldn't be more correct when you said the 2010 iMac doesn't look like it's a 14 year old computer. I am semi new to Mac's and work at an MSP. A clients iMac started kernel panicking and they finally caved for the upgrade. Since we are primarily a Windows house, I didn't have to fight anyone over taking it home lol. Thing is.. I thought this was some moderately recent workstation iMac! I thought I had just made a big come up and started looking up videos for opening 2019 iMacs (LOL!!) but everything was so slim and glued together. As I am watching a video talking about the difference between newer and older iMac's, I suddenly was able to pop the front glass cover off cleanly and was immediately disappointed for a moment as I began to realize this was gonna have a very early i3. Once I got to the mechanical drive (it's what caused the kernel panic. can't boot the kernel if you get to it..) I confirmed the manufacturing date of October 4, 2010. Since I don't have any mechanical to 2.5in SSD brackets, I dropped in a 2TB WD Gold as a place holder to see if I could even get it to reinstall macOS. Sure enough I was able to get into recovery and get High Sierra proper installed.
Your video has given me hope that this may still turn out to be something worth putting a little effort into. I didn't realize I could upgrade the CPU to some extent! And I know I can add 2 more sticks of RAM. I can live without upgrading the GPU. Just having the discreet GPU is enough for me instead of the iGPU chugging along.
Have a late 2009 27” iMac that’s still takes care of my personal computer needs. Upgraded to SSD recently as the old HDD started to develop issues. With the two way DisplayPort it’s such a convenient home office setup. Hook up my work laptop and the iMac serves as a decent external monitor for my work even by todays standards.
With the SSD upgrade and much of my processing needs offloaded to the cloud (like Lightroom CC) it feels almost snappier than 5-6 years ago.
It still my main desktop atm and uh... aside from games and video editing, I do everything else with it.
you watch porn on 2010 iMac?
Great video, thank you for the info on the upgradability!
I have one. Installed Opencore Legacy Patcher and it now runs MacOS Ventura...
iMacs cannot be beat in terms of reliability and performance even as they are entering their golden years.
absolutely!
i have the 2009 imac been using it as a gaming display 🔥🤘🏾 still hella useful
i use mine for daily basis bc it has somona and big sur
@@mochodaeditor it officially get update to big sur?
@@alindraputra7920 i used opencore legacy patcher
@@alindraputra7920 nah it doesn’t support it
@@mochodaeditor nah, but you can patch it to sonoma.
Dual booting to Linux alone made this machine amazingly usable again; however, upgrading from 4gb of memory to 12gb made the Mac os go from absolutely useless to super functional. It's my wife's machine and she just used it for office work so I don't think I will be upgrading to an ssd.
You know, It’s interesting you can just short that cable. I’ve had to get OWC sensor for it to work properly and actually read temperatures. I’ve got mine 2010 iMac 3 years ago for 50$. Still had its warranty stickers inside. Had to clean it and replace thermal paste. Overall, it’s still a very capable machine if you upgrade SSD and RAM. You can also upgrade its processor to i7-860s or i5-680.
I’ll definitely consider upgrading to the i7-860s some day. Shockingly the weakling i3 does well for what it’s worth. Anyways, it’s funny that shorting that cable works!
OLD IS GOLD
OLD IS GOLD? LAG IS ASS
How do I find local technician to upgrade my iMac???
Se puede cambiar la GPU?
how do you update it?
great video, i bought same specs but with 8gb of RAM, youtube video scrolling and page scrolling is really laggy, did you have same issues with 8GB and will 16GB reduce that lag ?
I just dug mine up and I'm tapping this on it so it works but it is really slow so I need to upgrade mine from a 500g hard drive to 200gb ssd I won't need a lot of storage because it will only be used to watch movies, I will also upgrade the 4gb of ram to 8 or 16
Are these good for zoom meetings? I seen on I wanted to use for my sale calls
I need one just for net browsing , youtube and that’s it , still will get the fan problems ?
It shouldn’t. However, if you don’t want to mess with anything internally if the fans ramp up, you can use a software called Mac’s fan control
Hi Blaze. Could you tell us the links of ebay from Intel Core i3 and ATI Radeon HD4670? Tks
Hi, Ventura system is incompatible with my 2011 iMack. What system do you recommend for iMack 2011? AMD 2GB card, 2T SSD, 14GB Ram.
You can also use it as a beautiful external display 👌🏻
I'll probably take one if I find one and buy an Apple silicon Mac mini 😅
Sounds good!
I'm using my 2010 27-inch Mac as a display for my 2023 Mac mini M2. It works great. A lot better than spending $1500 on an Apple Studio Display!@@BlazeTechOffical
How can you do that?
@@Irkennalphathunderbolt to usb c or hdmi and the targeted display option
Hello im from Philippines can u help to open mac 2010 the screen is white with folder
It's hard to explain the process from a youtube reply, but there are videos that can help you step by step. I might make a video on my second channel
Thank u
Did you have any issues getting patched Catalina running well? I’ve heard that it doesn’t run well on anything with Radeon 5xxx and 6xxx graphics due to lacking GPU acceleration, so I assumed the 4670 in here would also be a problem.
Is they are any way I can update imac 10 version
Fortunately Macs Fan Control exist!
I wish you would say how big that iMac is. It looks like it's a 21".
Can you hook up an external GPU?
Hi which Catalina Patcher have you used? The one from dosguy say it is incomparable with ATI graphics card of an imac model 11.3. Do you have any advice? Thx in advanced
My advice is to not install Catalina as the Radeon HD5xxx and HD6xxx cards are terrible with macOS. But If you have the Radeon HD 4xxx then it WILL work.
question about this. Even after upgrading, will computer still be able to update to newer iOS and will it be compatible with newer apps and programs?
You can use a patcher which will allow you to run the latest macOS, but it’s not 100% certain all applications will run perfect if at all
I recently found an iMac A1312 in a dumpster. Not sure if it works correctly, but can an external GPU - one with better performance - be connected? I am not sure but I think the 1GB (?) VRAM GPU is thus highest the iMac can support. I might be wrong! Thank you 🤓
I'm not sure if but you can always watch a video. You should be able to replace it
Use Mac fan control
Mac fan control could of fixed the fan problem i just got one of these for free im excited to tinker arojnd with it
I did take Mac fan control into consideration but I didn't want to sit and fix fan curve (im sure its much faster than what i did lol) but I did upgrade and clean up the inside with the motive to short the HDD temp wires together
@@BlazeTechOffical it's alot faster 😂 just set the fan to run off the CPU temp and forget it
i think you can use opencore legacu patcher and update it to big sur or even ventrue
It’s definitely a thing to consider and I was thinking about it. I didn’t want to sacrifice a ton of performance because I think ventura with the iMac’s current specs is definitely pushing it. For now, Catalina is ok; definitely better than high Sierra. 😅
@@BlazeTechOfficalI found Big Sur is the best middle ground when installing on my 2008 MBP. Snappier than Ventura
Do you happen to know if i change the ssd and erase it, will it also erase the previous user? Now im using guest acc.
you can erase the HDD or SSD from system recovery which is built into Macs, of you can go ahead and replace the drive for a faster one and reinstall macOS that way.
Anyone here in 2024? 👀
Also, anyone know how to connect an iPhone 13 or newer to a mid 2010 iMac for screen sharing? 🤔
i know this is unrelated but give the Quran a read, also very insightful video man, ive had a powerpc g4 mac when i was a kid and i lost it and man nostalgia hit hard and now im looking for something that can run that old mac os x tiger and leopard and make me feel how i felt the 1st time booting up that g4
whats the table the imacs on?
a cheap walmart table
Which hard drive did you use to upgrade it
I believe I used a Western Digital SSD for this Mac
can i use this to run up photoshop and figma when ram is upgraded ?
figma should be fine, just be mindful of the old GPU which may give you a less ideal experience.
You can figma balls
Nice video. Now try and put Window$ 11 on it 🙂
Can you or does the 2017 or better ones do that
can you use ddr3 1600 ram instead of 1333?
Unfortunately, it’s incompatible because ddr3 1600 is too new
Aapple go0d!!! ?
Try upgrading the cpu to the max! Loved your video
I will eventually, definitely considering it soon. And thanks!
kids still say "surfing the web?"
I'm an old millennial and still use that
Never was