If you need more hard drive space an external firewire hard drive is a less expensive way to go.
On 9/8/07, gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning to purchase an iMac for my wife. I have only owned PC's since > jobs was in the garage, and have a few hardware questions. > > we are getting this mainly because it fits well in the allocated space, and > because my wife generates and edits dvd's and says her PC is very slow in > this task. > > 1.looks like 2 memory slots. does std DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300 ) ram fit, or is > it something that is mac only? > 1a. can I put a 2g in one slot and a 1g in the other and the machine will be > happy and run on 3g? > > 2.can one change/ug the video card or add memory to it, or is it unique, and > hardwired someplace weird? > such as, can one remove the nvidia 128 and put in an ati 256? > > 3.Is the hd a standard one, and can one pull the existing and put in a larger > one? > > 4.have heard Leapord(?) will be out in oct. how realistic are apple release > dates and how buggy are typical initial releases? will there be enough > thrill to wait? > > regards > > tg > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************