if the 21.5 iMac gets quad core processor

[AnimaLeo]

Will you then be able to put 16gb of RAM in it?

 

[TMRaven]

You already can put 16gb of ram in it.

 

[AnimaLeo]

Well, will there be more ram slots?

 

[TMRaven]

How many ram slots do you think it has?

 

[aliensporebomb]

Grumble...

21.5" doesn't have a quadcore processor. Not enough room to deal with the thermal overload of a beefy quadcore chip.

All iMacs from the last 18 months or so have had four slots for memory. You do the math.

 

[pt0016]

Putting a new processor will not give the iMac more RAM slots.

 

[Hellhammer]

21.5" doesn't have a quadcore processor. Not enough room to deal with the thermal overload of a beefy quadcore chip.

Sandy Bridge will bring 65W quads at decent clock speeds with very aggressive Turbo. Price should also be reasonable

 

[AnimaLeo]

How many ram slots do you think it has?

I guessed it as 4 slots. From the Apple website you can max the ram out at 8. So I guessed it has 4 slots, and they put 2gb in each slot.

 

[Hellhammer]

I guessed it as 4 slots. From the Apple website you can max the ram out at 8. So I guessed it has 4 slots, and they put 2gb in each slot.

Apple offers only 8GB for 21.5" but it supports up to 16GB of RAM. And yes, it has four RAM slots.

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html

That's also the maximum what Lynnfield CPUs and P55 chipset support.