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Re: Ram prices have been falling... - Buzz - 01-27-2016
jdc wrote:
It must be something way more complicated than just adding more ram to the chip. It took until 2015 iMacs to see 16 GB chips, and even then they are $175 each.
I got a killer deal on 1MB RAM chips for my original Mac II for $229.50/ea, when I loaded it up w/ 8MB... woulda been $239/ea to buy four, or less, and that's when the prevailing price was around $300 per MB. 16GB for 25% less than 1MB sounds like a really good deal. Of course, people will never need more than 640KB for personal computing...
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Re: Ram prices have been falling... - Article Accelerator - 01-27-2016
steve... wrote:
Is there a site that tells you which ram works in which Mac?
RAM made for your Mac model works in a Mac. Rolling the dice and buying generic RAM is a bad idea.
OWC has an excellent website for this but when I look elsewhere, it's way too confusing.
Crucial's site isn't confusing at all:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/memory-info?cm_re=top-nav-_-flyout-memory-_-us-memory
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - steve... - 01-27-2016
Crucial's site isn't confusing at all.
I've been to Crucial but they don't have 8 GB modules for my mid 2010 i7 iMac.
If I want to compare prices from different sellers, it takes time to find and compare the technical specs among them. Newegg sells a Mushkin 2x8GB kit for $78 +tax and I found the same Mushkin memory from another seller for $67 shipped.
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - chopper - 01-27-2016
I should upgrade my workhorse.
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Two slots open ...
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - mrlynn - 01-27-2016
Hmm. . . I have 16GB of OWC RAM in my late-2009 i7 iMac now. According to Everymac, I could upgrade to 32:
*Officially, this model supports a maximum of 16 GB of RAM. However, as carefully confirmed by Other World Computing, this model can support up to 32 GB of RAM if it is running Mac OS X 10.6.3 "Snow Leopard" or higher in 64-bit mode and has been updated to use the latest EFI version. It is limited to 16 GB of RAM in 32-bit mode.
I'm running 10.8.5. Am I running in 64-bit mode? About This Mac says this about my EFI update (whatever that is):
27-inch iMac EFI Firmware Update:
Version: 1.0
Source: Apple
Install Date: 2010-10-27 12:35 PM
2010? Probably not the latest, right?
Maybe not worth the bother. The computer runs well with 16GB. I'm wondering about its aging (but still fine, AFAIK) 2TB HDD.
/Mr Lynn
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - Lux Interior - 01-27-2016
jdc wrote:
Been thinking about taking my 2010 iMac to 32 GB from 24.
Did you go from 16 to 24?
Did you see any improvement?
Thinking about going from 16 to 24 on my mid-2010 iMac.
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - chopper - 01-27-2016
Looks like RAM for my iMac (iMac3) is still pretty spendy. Bummer.
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - Grateful11 - 01-27-2016
I put that RAM in my Wish List on Amazon some time ago.
"Price dropped 55% (was $143.49 when added to Wish List)"
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - jdc - 01-27-2016
Lux Interior wrote:
Did you go from 16 to 24?
Did you see any improvement?
Straight from 8 to 24 the day I got it.
Im running an app called Memory Monitor, and its often pegged near the top -- although a lot of that seems to be brwsers.
Im running the Creative Suite -- PS, ID, AI and DW all day plus 3 broswers... not sure what more ram more "improve"
Re: Ram prices have been falling... - RAMd®d - 01-27-2016
Im running an app called Memory Monitor, and its often pegged near the top
I use the MM with the same results, but with less RAM.
Activity Monitor no longer has a GUI for memory, and because of the way Yosi and El Cap use memory, only swap is display, not page ins or page outs. The latter is all I'd care about.
Safari sucks up a lot of memory, and I use it constantly, with two or three windows open, and several tabs per window. After a while I have to cull tabs and a window or two.
My next Mac will be a 27" iMac, one because I like the screen size, two because a Retina version is available, and three because I can stuff it full of memory, in that order.
When that happens, I'll go from 8G or whatever the base is to 24G asap. That will leave a slot open, just in case.