Thanks Daniel Yes, a great help. Perhaps we will do business with RAM soon. New iMac or repairs? That is the serious question I am now pondering.
My (old) 27 inch iMac isn’t 4 years old yet, but has sudden complete power shut downs at odd times. Wrong time of year to get technical repairs: I will try and keep the computer working into the new year. I resolve (pre new-year resolution!) to keep a detailed log of incidents and results of such analysis as I can do. Problem may “just” be the power supply, but given the pressure of Christmas and holidays, techies are likely to replace the logic board and fusion drive as well "just in case”. As an ex-techie, I hated intermittent faults! I see the lastest MacRumors blog quotes Apple CEO Tim Cook that “we have great desktops in our roadmap”. All very nice, but I have a big investment in thunderbolt, firewire and USB 3 devices. I don’t want an expensive new iMac that needs a whole new set of USB C devices or whatever. I hope Tim Cook’s roadmap is not reached before March 2017. Cheers Alan > On 20 Dec 2016, at 5:43 PM, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Answer below,…. > > Hope that helps. > > Kind regards > Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone 7 > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and > as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the > author be requested. > >> On 20 Dec 2016, at 4:20 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Specs for the new (late 2015) 27 inch iMac show 4 RAM slots. The 8GB basic >> setup uses 2 x 4GB modules. Apple upgrades are to 16GB or 32GB - using 8 GB >> modules. >> >> Question 1: Can RAM modules be user installed or are they factory fitted? > Yes, the RAM can be user fitted. I do it for my clients. (as the third party > RAM I get is generally cheaper then Apple). >> >> Question 2: Can two more 4GB modules be user-fitted to create 16GB memory >> of 4 x 4GB modules? > Yes, you can add 2x4GB to give 16GB total (uses all 4 slots for a total of > 16GB) >> >> Question 3: Can the RAM slots have a mix of 4GB and 8GB modules? > Yes, you can have 2x4GB and 2x8GB. >> >> Regards >> Alan >> Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5 Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.11.6 >> El Capitan >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
