Buying RAM today.. Help?

Okay so I am going to my local computer store to buy RAM after work today as they have it a LOT cheaper than anywhere online at the moment.. But I can't decide which is need, the 8gb kit is £50 and 16gb kit is £80.. If I don't need the extra then I would rather save myself £30.

I mainly just have many firefox tabs open, itunes and sometimes league of legends as well as I have 2 monitors so that is on one and the rest is on another.

I hear unless I am doing video editing stuff, which I don't, then 16gb would be a waste?


I have the 2012 mini btw.

justperry said:

8 Gb will do I think, be careful with buying RAM, Macs can be picky and it's not the first time the new RAM will have problems, Crucial seems to be the one to have the least problems, Corsair plenty.
Test the RAM ASAP after you get it inside the Mac, Apple Hardware Test can do the job, run the extended Test, to get into AHT hold D at startup.

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Will be buying 2 of these, do you think it will be okay?

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/integral-pc3-12800-ddr3-laptop-memory-4gb-sodimm-ram-19713395-pdt.html

justperry said:

As I said before, Macs can be picky and nobody can guarantee you this will work, Crucial does work but they are expensive in Europe.

I bought myself a Base 2012 Mini in Singapore, got a free 8 GB upgrade with it, now, that's a good deal unlike in Europe or the US.

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Crucial memory has jumped from £76 to £103 for the 16gb kit in the last 6 weeks, should of gone for it at the time.

justperry said:

Or you could wait until it comes down again.

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I could, but my mac mini seems to be struggling when multitasking so would rather get some memory asap.