How much ram to get for new iMac?

[doktordoris]

The problem is that you spend an extra $200 for that upgrade from Apple.

Doing what you propose, you spend $200 + $40 = $240 for 16GB. If you upgrade to 16GB and discard the the original RAM, you pay $0 + $80 = $80 for 20GB of total RAM, of which you could use only 16GB. It gives you 4GB to sell on eBay if you have the time or inclination to get a small portion of that $80 back.

/Jim

that's it you see, i didn't have the time or inclination to do what you propose. and i knew that the 2 gig dims would just rattle around my house 'til they got lost or broken. this way no dims were hurt during the making of my iMac.

 

[flynz4]

that's it you see, i didn't have the time or inclination to do what you propose. and i knew that the 2 gig dims would just rattle around my house 'til they got lost or broken. this way no dims were hurt during the making of my iMac.

I see a new organization forming. PETD

/Jim

 

[doktordoris]

I see a new organization forming. PETD

/Jim

lol.

now someone confronts me with what i have done and I try to rationalise my behaviour, my reasoning was, i must admit, fairly stupid.
But I just didn't like the thought of buying 2g dims i didn't want. I haven't actually been to the UK mac store to compare the price of dims i bought with the cheapest dims I could find online. TBH I thought I would loose just a few pounds doing what I did, but from the way people are talking about apple ram prices I bet I spent more than that.
In my defense I was just carried away, to a degree, by buying new mac ecstasy when I spoke to the chap on the phone. I couldn't stop myself ordering stuff, especially when I got a battery charger and iWorks (neither of which i really wanted) with my mac.