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You can boot from an external SSD but then you've got desktop clutter that is the opposite of what the iMac does so well. If you do buy an older refurb iMac you're going to need to learn how to open one up and install the SSD if you want it to be more than a museum piece. If you do, expect to have painfully long boot times and lackluster performance once you reach the desktop. In 2019 no one should be booting from a mechanical HDD. My take home points for hackintoshers: Get an SSD to use as your boot drive if you want to run Mojave or Catalina. If Apple doesn't make some concessions in the APFS filesystem to accommodate the slower seek performance of HDD devices, then a rotational device will never be able to provide acceptable performance as a production macOS startup disk.This performance difference is most noticeable on a macOS startup disk that is (or includes) a rotational disk.Enumerating an APFS filesystem on a traditional HDD (rotational disk) will take 3-20X longer than HFS+ on the same hardware.Mike says: The article is fairly technical, here are the key takeaways: Your contributions will be deeply appreciated.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide Please make the amount of each contribution $10 USD or more (in JPYen, 1000Yen or more) if possible.

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