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  1. R

    Issue with iMac SSD upgrade

    I recently upgraded my mid-2010 27" iMac with a new Samsung 850-Evo SSD and am running into a weird problem. The install was easy with the adapter I used from OWC with the thermal sensor, nothing out of the ordinary occurred, no breaks, no broken display cable. SMC and PRAM all reset. When I...
  2. nduemler

    Updating to SSD Drive

    Hello all... How well would El Cap run with a 2009 MBP with 120 GB SDD? This computer is my secondary machine that is really only used for basic web-browsing and occasional web development... How would the age of this computer affect the performance? Thanks!
  3. borvol

    El Captain search problems

    I am running El Captain and having problems with the search function. It seems that it won't search any of my external drives. I saw a work around where you add and remove the drive in spotlight to get it to index them again, but that didn't work. Please help!
  4. buttongerald

    Improving Performance

    Greetings all. I have been a Apple user for a number of years, however I took a short break and had a Windows based machine for some time and when I finally came back to OS X on my new iMac I had some catching up to do. My iMac is a late 2013 model, with 8GB of ram, Intel Iris Graphics, and a...
  5. T

    How to use a Microsoft Publisher document on Mac (without using Publisher)?

    I went from a Windows to an iMac. I had tons of documents from MS Office that I had to transfer to the iMac and for the most part it was pretty easy. I didn't want to buy MS Office for Mac, so I downloaded Apache OpenOffice, which seemed to take all of my Word and Excel documents perfectly fine...