Restarting will be less painful with the SSD upgrade. For you and what your computer is running, a reasonable restart plan would be every 2-3 days. With only 8GB of nearly-impossible-to-upgrade RAM, it behooves you to restart more often than every ten days. Your slow launches would be a thing of the past. The lowest cost option for an external SSD would do 400MB/sec. How much difference would an external SSD boot drive make? Almost every 21.5-inch iMac made between 20 has the same issue and the newer the OS version the worse it seems. However, Jeffrey is spot-on about the drive and the external SSD option. Had Dad spent 18% more on the 4K model, he could have seen a 50 percent increase in performance. These GeekBench scores from the MacTracker database tell the tale: Entry-level consumer 21.5" 4K Macs (only US$200 more) that year had a proper desktop-class FOUR-core i5 processor running at a minimum of 3.0ghz. It has a slow 2.3ghz laptop-class TWO-core processor. This is the crippled educational/institutional iMac, made to be more attractively priced for bulk buyers. This is a big factor in what you are experiencing:ΔΆ.3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 (i5-7360U) CPU: 2-core
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