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.

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?

Nevermind, just maxed it out at 16GB for $110.


[QUOTE=JourdanWithaU;3148292]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?[/QUOTE]

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 :jaw: )

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.

[QUOTE=JourdanWithaU;3148292]doesn't matter as long as the appropriate slots are filled. Does your OS even support 16GB of RAM?[/QUOTE]

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.

[QUOTE=old.guy;3148303]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.[/QUOTE]

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.

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.

its under utilities, Activity Monitor.