iMac i7 – 50 lbs of Macintosh Beast

Well, I finally took the plunge. My 2006 20″ iMac was finally starting to show its age. One day it dawned on me that I had the slowest computer in the house, with my wife and older son both enjoying relatively new MacBooks and my younger son still playing on a one-year old PC (heresy, I know). But the machine I was trying to do all of my work on just crawled along, getting stuff done but never quickly enough. This has been going on for a while, mind you… and typically when things start to fill up or slow down we tend to employ band-aids to help things last a little longer. Running slowly?...