

A product is considered obsolete if it was discontinued more than seven years ago. Vintage products are devices that have not been sold for more than five but less than seven years. The definitions from Apple's Vintage and Obsolete products page give an idea of device longevity. The harder you work your machine, the sooner a component is likely to stop working.

Someone who only uses their Mac for occasional web browsing can likely get away with using the same machine for longer than someone who runs their computer all day and does high-intensity tasks like video editing. There isn't an exact number you can put on a Mac's lifespan, as it depends on a variety of factors. If that does not work buy an External SSD and boot it from the Startup Manager Startup Disk.Whether you're taking stock of your old machine or thinking about the value of a new purchase, you might wonder how long MacBooks and other Mac models last. Reinstall the OSX for the Recovery Partition. If so replace it with a USB3 or ThunderBolt (kinda this is not much of an option) - Any recommendations on manufactures? Maybe USB2 attached storage is slowing down the whole system. Remove the External Storage (Temporarily) and see if the behavior still occurs. My thoughts were to do the following steps troubleshooting: Logic tells me that there is enough RAM in the machine and a 7200RPM Drive is better than a 5400 RPM Drive but not as good as a SSD performance wise.Īt this point I do not want to make the performance worse by upgrading to Catalina by know eventually I will need to. The frustrating part is that it happens when opening applications, opening web pages, the Finder or just about anything.

I run Clean My Mac weekly and the performance increases some but after a few days it seems we are back in the same place performance wise. Nvidia Geoforce GT755 (1GB) Graphics Card My Late 2013 27" iMac’s performance is starting to become very frustrating (Spinning Wheel).
