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Purchased 2X 32GB RAM kits from amazon 

After upgrading my RAM at first almost had a heart attack iMac would not boot up but after simply removing the new RAM and replacing it making sure everything was firm and steady everything booted right up!

Using my main applications 

Chrome

Lightroom

Photoshop 

Final Cut Pro X 

My iMac is a dream! not missing my 2018 i9 MacBook Pro one bit!!

This iMac is a work horse and with the price amazon has it right now it is simply a steal!!! If you can’t wait like me, go to your nearest Best Buy with the amazon ad and they will price match it! I recommend this pre configured iMac all day long for all creative content producers will not disappoint!

I've been an iOS and Mac OS user for a long time!! Here is a quick back story to why I gave windows another chance.

I am a photographer and will be traveling to shoot so I purchased a 1TB iPad pro to off load my images safely from my SD cards. Only draw backs are that even though the iPad has Lightroom it does not have full Photoshop yet so there are some edits I cannot complete while on the go. And while iPad OS has still not been released iOS 12 cannot transfer videos from my SD card as I shoot with a Sony A7RII and the way Sony saves videos is simply ugly lol.

Those 2 reasons hindering me for this coming up trip I thought I would look into these 2 in 1 windows offers as I can flip it into a tablet making it a small foot print and much more comfortable to carry around.

I found a sick deal on a HP X360 2018 i7 8565U 4K display 16GB RAM 512 GB NVME SSD storage which is easily upgradable for $1,250 at Best buy so I said why not give it a shot a MacBook similarly specd would be around $2200 and without the comfortability of flipping it into a tablet. I went ahead and bought it!

Went home cracked it open had a really nice design and color it was blue and gold with a diamond cut design chasis. Very interesting and expensive looking for a Windows laptop I was very impressed. Things were looking pretty good so far.

After hours and I mean hours of setting it up updating it and updating the drivers and the OS I was finally able to load up Lightroom and Photoshop and give it a whirl.

First thing I noticed the track pad was absolute garbage! Wow this thing was bad it would speed up jerk around jump around just a terrible terrible experience but ok I said no big deal I could use the touch screen.

Well coming from an iPad the touch screen was a disaster as well! Applications are just not optimized for touchscreen use especially Adobe apps which is the only thing I would be using on this machine.

Not being beaten yet I pushed on and used the laptop to download my images from the cloud and get to some editing.

Just opening Lightroom would cause this laptop to kick the fans up to full blast and boy this thing was loud and obnoxious.

That wouldn't have bothered me much but now while using it the OS ran horribly it was jerky jiterry nothing was smooth and seamless like on my Mac!

I was shocked that at this price point I was having such a horrible experience!!

Everything ran slow and laggy on such good hardware. I just cannot figure it out and so many reviews rated this laptop as a great product.

At this point I have to wonder who buys these products? Because it was an overall bad experience I don't see anybody enjoying this experience at any capacity!!

WARNING THIS IS A LENGTHY PROCESS IN THE EXTREME RARE CASE THAT THINGS GO WRONG I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE BROUGHT ONTO YOUR SYSTEM BY THIS DO THIS AT YOUR OWN CAUTION!

This was done on a 2019 i5 3.7 6 core iMac with 2TB fusion drive

Things you will need

-Back up everything as we will be deleting your drives! 

-16GB USB 3 or USB C thumb drive I used this one

-External SSD I used this one (optional but highly recommend) 

-Wired mouse and keyboard (very Important)

-Patience as this can take some time! 

Insert USB Drive 

Proceed to the app store and download Mojave it will take some time to download as it is a big file. 

after it is downloaded proceed to this website and download the disk maker

After DMG file is downloaded open and place application in applications folder 

after opening application open and allow security questions until arriving to this window and select “use this copy”

select option as follows 

your USB should be listed if not format it to HFS+ in Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities) and it should appear 

press install and follow all directions as followed it does take time so be patient enter your password when requested

after the install grab that wired mouse and keyboard plug them in and restart your mac

while your mac screen goes black press and hold the option key (alt in a windows keyboard) 

you should see your main drive and a install Majove drive select that one and wait for your iMac to boot into installer (will take some time be patient progress bar will be full and restart that is normal!) 

once in recovery mode select utilities in the top left as on image 

in terminal type in 

diskutil apfs list

Look in the outer containers and look for “fusion Drive” Mine will not show it because I have already deleted it but you will see it on your screen make note of what disk your fusion drive is mine was disk2 so in the command line I put as follows

diskutil apfs deletecontainer disk2

and press enter it will delete the fusion and separate your drives into 2 separate drives you may now quit terminal and open the disk utility and format your drives the (SSD should be APFS and the mechanical hard drive should be HFS plus) as in following images 

make sure all options are the same as in these images!!!! 

once done reformatting drives quit disk utility and install Mojave

this will take a pretty long time your mac will restart a few times and the progress bar will restart it self a few times completely normal just be patient and that is it now you are using your mac with the fast SSD which will be night and day difference. I do suggest using the external SSD as storage or even as your home folder click here for instructions how to do that. 

Do not use the mechanical drive as your home folder as it is very slow if you decide not to purchase the SSD which i strongly suggest you do use the mechanical drive as a regular external drive for files and such.