Mac mini 2010 (2.4GHz) 4gigs or 8gigs of RAM?

[MikieMcBikie]

Crucial website says:

and i bet they might know

 

[andrei.barbuta]

My advice 4GB is enough but get and SSD even if it's only 60 GB it would make you Mini feel like a Mac Pro.
Plus you can always expand your storage with an external drive.

Personally I have the late 2009 Mac mini with 320GB HDD but I keep everything on an external drive even the iTunes Library.

 

[MikieMcBikie]

My advice 4GB is enough but get and SSD even if it's only 60 GB it would make you Mini feel like a Mac Pro.

lol...ssd is a good upgrade but it will not feel like a mac pro. will boot and launch apps faster than a pro tho...but you gotta take the mini(2010) apart in really horrible ways to swap the drive, and spend money on said drive. oops off topic sorry

 

[cosmicc]

I'd go for 8GB. I recently purchased 2x4GB Kingston RAM for ~$140 shipped.

 

[bbass408]

> Crucial website says:
> ...
> and i bet they might know

I think they don't know. If you actually run their tool it's going to tell you whether or not the mb actually uses dual channel. But, it won't know about the integrated graphics card and how it accesses memory.

All that aside, tis a mystery whether it's really dual channel or not. Every web page I read goes one way or the other.

So... sent an email off to an egineer at Intel and hopefully they'll know. Next email goes to an engineer at Apple.

 

[iPhisch]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231265
I bought 2 of these. 80 bucks for 8gb. Works great!

 

[Akula971]

Use activity monitor

Use activity monitor to see how much RAM your machine is using now. I put 8GB in mine and an Intel X25 SSD. A very snappy machine indeed. But both of these improvements didn't show a great increase in scores in geekbench. But in everyday application it was a noticeable improvement. I now do everything on my Mac Mini, only fire up the Mac Pro for Video/Photo editing or games. With 8GB Ram in the mini I run parallels (win XP) for my CAD system, have pages open and numbers, plus a few messaging programs. It runs fine, very very rarely a spinning beachball, which is almost always due to flash.

 

[cosmicc]

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I develop and design w/ my mini no prob at all. I have 8gb of Kingston ram.

 

[scenemissing]

Get the 8GB, the 4GB SODIMMS have come way down in price the last year, and I doubt they will go much lower in the future.

 

[dc52nv]

i made the move from 2gb to 8gb crucial ram. it makes a night and day difference. you will not be disappointed, that's for sure. i bought it from amazon for $87 shipped.

 

[skrypj]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231295

$69.00 shipped if you buy tonight and put in the code. That sounds pretty good to me for 8gb of fast ram, and several people have said that it works well in their macs.

 

[dc52nv]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231295

$69.00 shipped if you buy tonight and put in the code. That sounds pretty good to me for 8gb of fast ram, and several people have said that it works well in their macs.

that's an awesome deal. thanks for posting.

 

[m3coolpix]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231295

$69.00 shipped if you buy tonight and put in the code. That sounds pretty good to me for 8gb of fast ram, and several people have said that it works well in their macs.

I must be missing something....it's showing @$83 now. What's the code? I do get the newegg.com deals via email......not seeing it anywhere in the past few days.

Just picked up a 2010 Mini 2.4ghz box off of CL earlier this week. Loving it so far.

Thanks!

 

[akceso.pl]

I recommend to purchase Corsair memory 2x4GB 1066 MHz (certified by Apply) for MacMini 2010 model.
Do not try 1333 MHz as it won't work.

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