Posted on 08/15/2007 4:09:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker
There might be some confusion here. I did the test on an iMac, so it should work for you. IOW, it should be safe for you to never have to actually shut down your Mac mini.
I don’t know how good Vista’s power management is.
No. With the exception of the mini, always buy your Mac with the minimum amount of memory and buy your own. For the iMac Apple charges $150 to go from 1GB to 2GB. I got an extra 2GB stick for $110, giving me 3GB for $40 less than Apple would have given me 2GB. They charge $850 to upgrade to 4GB (2x2GB), but I could toss the 1GB that comes with it in the trash and go to 4GB for about a quarter the price.
Same for the MacBook, which comes with 2x512MB, upgrade to 2x1GB for $150. I can buy 2x1GB for $80 and throw away the 512MB sticks.
MacBook Pro comes with 2x1GB, $700 more to get 2x2GB. Throwing away theirs would cost me $240 for 4GB.
And the numbers to load up a Mac Pro are insane: $4,500 from Apple for 16 GB, my cost, $1,088 even making sure to buy memory with the heat spreader.
Thanks. What I really meant was, it’s a good idea to upgrade the memory rather than to take the standard memory, which Apple IMHO tends to skimp on (at least, everything built since the Apple //c). :’)
The iMac ran pretty well with a medium load of software (iTunes/Photo, browser, some Finder windows, etc.) with just 1GB RAM. I guess it's all in personal perception of speed. But with 3GB it barely pauses for anything, no matter how much I run (although I haven't run multiple VMs yet -- that'll slow down any system).
I’ve used this rev B iMac since 1999, and wish I’d paid for more RAM (this one has 96 MB, and uses 97 MB for virtual memory). Ah well.
1999? Wow, that is a long time in “tech time”. I’d say you got your money’s worth on that hardware.
I’ve upgraded the even older PM 7600 to 1 Ghz G4, and have been a little lazy in going back to using that. The hard drive in the iMac has been iffy for a while, and it also needs a RAM upgrade. I may do that as a project sometime.
Gee, Sunk, turn that baby upside down and pull the 64 and 32 meg sticks and stick in a couple of 512s... shouldn’t cost much more than $80. No wonder you didn’t like OSX...
I don’t have OS X on the iMac, and the reason I don’t like OS X is the interface (not to mention that problem I had emptying the trash a year and a half ago); also, as you may have forgotten, the rev B iMac requires pulling out tools and an instruction manual to change drive and/or RAM. The later revisions have the cute little doors.
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