On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
Naama,
I'm Naama's husband. Of course, she can answer for herself, but I helped
make the decision.
you say you upgraded your iMac, and you are pleased with the results,
how much did you have in the past, what speed of RAM, which Mac do you
have, what bus speed, what processor, how fast was the spin speed on
your hard drive, what cache level etc.
This is a 2011-model iMac withan I5 quad-core and a 500 gb 7200 RPM hard
drive. We bought it with the extra RAM.
you are implying that the pure RAM improvement made this difference, but
the implication is that you had a perfect machine and that the RAM
slowed things down, you may have had a lesser machine, and the RAM made
things better for you.
Actually, she didn't imply this. She actually said:
"I upgraded my iMac to 8gigs of ram and I am not sorry in the learst."
This is not to say that she would have been unhappy with 4 gb of RAM, just
that she's happy she opted to buy the extra 4 gb.
It is quite possible that a recent iMac will operate just fine on 4 gb of
RAM for the foreseeable future. But macs are not cheap. As things are,
we could not really afford to make this purchase, but we did because
another computer died and we felt it was time to make the switch. As
such, we felt that 8 gb of RAM would future-proof the machine as much as
possible without being a major expense.
It's worth remembering that the iMac by default comes with 4 gb of RAM.
Yes, it also comes wiht Garage Band and iMovie Maker, and quite possibly
that 4 gb of RAM is to accommodate these sorts of software. But the fact
is that it does ship with it and we use VoiceOver on top of these things.
Someone already mentioned the system requirements for Lion. I can't help
but wonder how much RAM the 2012 or 2013 era iMacs will ship with.
I guess my view is that if you can afford the upgrade and plan to get the
most out of your mac, there's no harm in doing it. Certainly it won't
harm anything. If things are running fine and you can't really justify
the expense, don't worry about it for now.
Geoff.
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