I Have the mid 2011 Imac, and it comes with the 3.4 I7 quad core processor. You can't even take advantage of this processor's speed without having at least 8 gigs of ram. I found a 8 gig kit, and my Imac already has 4 gigs of ram, and has 4 slots for memory, so after dropping this 8 gig kit in my imac, I will have 12 gigs. This ram upgrade is only costing me 90 bucks including shipping, and to me considering apple charges over 200 for this upgrade, to me that's not a bad deal. Anyone who is interested can go to crucial.com it will safely scans your system, tell you what year, size, how many memory slots you have, and what memory you need for your model. HTH Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com (Google Voice) 657-229-2105 Sent from my IMac
On Jun 25, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
