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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 02:25 AM
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Question for the computer nerds regarding RAM

So my iMac has 4 RAM slots. Comes stock with 2GB installed in two of the slots. If I were to upgrade to 8GB of RAM would it be better to do 4 2GB's or 2 4GB's? Or does it not matter? Hell, I might max it out to 16GB anyways because the 2x4GB kit is only $50 from Crucial.
Old Oct 11, 2011 | 02:47 AM
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Upgrading **** in a Mac?! What is this madness?!

IIRC it doesn't matter as long as the appropriate slots are filled. Does your OS even support 16GB of RAM?
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Nevermind, just maxed it out at 16GB for $110.


Originally Posted by JourdanWithaU
Upgrading **** in a Mac?! What is this madness?!

IIRC it doesn't matter as long as the appropriate slots are filled. Does your OS even support 16GB of RAM?
Yeah, it has 4 slots, each of which can take a 4GB card. The newer iMacs actually can do 32GB (yeah, there is a company offering 4x8GB for $1,500 )

With OS X Lion is was a little laggy when running Lightroom and Photoshop CS5.1 as well as Pandora... and thats what I'm running 90% of the time, so I couldn't have the lagginess.

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Old Oct 11, 2011 | 03:08 AM
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Originally Posted by JourdanWithaU
doesn't matter as long as the appropriate slots are filled. Does your OS even support 16GB of RAM?
X1 make sure your OS can pull it. I run a sony laptop with 8gb of ram. Not much slows me down. Even with the photo sizes being 18-30mb per pic.
Old Oct 11, 2011 | 03:14 AM
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X1 make sure your OS can pull it. I run a sony laptop with 8gb of ram. Not much slows me down. Even with the photo sizes being 18-30mb per pic.
The iMac can definitely swing it. I didn't notice a lag until I upgraded the OS and all of my Adobe products. Not sure which one it is, or maybe a combo of both.
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Not a mac guy, But is there a system page you can look to see which prgram is eating your ram?
Windows has the system manager for that.
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