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Hello, I have an early 2009 24¨ iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06ghz with 8gb RAM , GPU ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 1TB HD. I am wondering how could I upgrade my iMac to be able to use it again for Photoshop retouching? Would I need to change the graphic card? Would going for 1TB SSD make enough difference? Is there anything else I should consider? Many thanks in advance!
I’m afraid it would be optimistic to upgrade this machine to be able to properly work with a modern version of photoshop but you could try. I do not think you would be able to upgrade the graphics card as apple has a tendency to use laptop format graphics cards on their imacs and the dimensions of those are extremely specific to the pc they are installed in. Also upgrading probably wouldn’t gain you much performancewise as you motherboard, cpu and ram would sufficiently bottleneck the systems performance and cause it to be very slow. I would opt to buy a cheap modern laptop rather than upgrade a 2009 imac as the laptop will be faster and cheaper.
