Hey guys, I have a 27 inch iMac 27 inch 2010 core i3, and I found crucial RAM 2x4GB so the price comes to 100 plus. Does anyone have 16GB of RAM on their iMac? I appreciate the feedback, and thank you for your time.
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16 GB RAM iMac
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I have the Mid 2011 base iMac with 16 GB from OWC. I love the extra memory. I could probably got away with 8 but what the heck. I never see a beach ball, never need to refresh a page in Safari, it's great and highly recommended
Why stop at 16 GB from OWC? They claim 32 GB is possible. 
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac
Anyways, yeah 16 GB works and is much cheaper.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac
Anyways, yeah 16 GB works and is much cheaper.
I went to 16GB from 8GB on my late-2009 i7 iMac and it's been night and day snappier. As the previous poster reported no more beach balls. I especially appreciate the extra memory when running Parallels.
With the plummeting prices of RAM now why not max it out?
With the plummeting prices of RAM now why not max it out?
Thanks a lot!!
Yeah I'm def excited for 16 GB of RAM, besides OWC and Crucial any other sites we can get RAM at?
Yeah I'm def excited for 16 GB of RAM, besides OWC and Crucial any other sites we can get RAM at?
NEWEGG buy 4 of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231342
16gb for under $90 2 kits needed
or buy these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233217
32gb for under 900 2 kits needed
I have 16gb on my Core 2 iMac, which I don't use much other than iTunes syncing and watching movies occasionally.
Occupied memory size including inactive(cached) segment one week after boot is around 8gb, definitely worth it if you intend to run memory intense programs and don't want to turn it off everyday.
Hard drive read/write operations also seemed to reduce a lot since most data would be in memory after a day of usage or so.
Occupied memory size including inactive(cached) segment one week after boot is around 8gb, definitely worth it if you intend to run memory intense programs and don't want to turn it off everyday.
Hard drive read/write operations also seemed to reduce a lot since most data would be in memory after a day of usage or so.
I'm at 12 gb with the mid 2011 i5. I used to leave apps on so that it would take long to start them up. Bounced up from 4 gb to 12 gb, I might as well leave them off or on, since all my applications except for aperture open up almost instantly. Aperture takes about 3 seconds. I remember the times when it took a bouncing ball.