{"id":1636,"date":"2015-01-04T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2015-01-04T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:23:07","slug":"2008-24-imac-hard-drive-and-ram-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/2008-24-imac-hard-drive-and-ram-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 24&#8243; iMac hard drive and RAM upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently retired my Windows XP machine to the workshop and replaced it with a 2008 24&#8243; iMac desktop computer. The last time I owned a Mac was in 2005 so it took a few weeks to get back up to speed. OSX is a much more stable OS than anything that ever came from Microsoft (IMO). It&#8217;s been working out great so far and soon I&#8217;ll be using Final Cut Pro X to produce my Hack A Week videos.<\/p>\n<p>This machine came with a 250GB hard drive which is hardly enough capacity to be using for saving video files. So I decided to upgrade the drive with a 3TB drive that I already had in hand. Guess what? The largest HD you can install in an early 2008 24&#8243; iMac is 2TB. So after a trip to Best Buy I had a 2TB drive and installed it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and now, my adventures with this project.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching, happy new year, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>keep on hackin!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AxkEx75n00E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently retired my Windows XP machine to the workshop and replaced it with a 2008 24&#8243; iMac desktop computer. The last time I owned a Mac was in 2005 so it took a few weeks to get back up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/2008-24-imac-hard-drive-and-ram-upgrade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}