Took 6 minutes from power button to login prompt this morning. Probably even longer from login responsive desktop. So yes, probably!

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amluto 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve helped someone with a rather clean iMac, circa 2019, still supported by Apple. Forget 6 minutes — you can spend a full hour from boot to giving up trying to get anything done.

I think that Apple has gotten so used to having fast storage in their machines that the newer OSes basically don’t work on spinning rust.

	▲	asimovDev 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		these iMacs have horrible Fusion drives (128GB SSD + 1TB HDD combo) iirc that fail often. Have you looked into that?

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asimovDev 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

what? on a semi modern CPU and a SATA / M2 SSD?? My Vista laptop on a spinning drive took that long to boot I am pretty sure. I am flabbergasted if this is true