New iMac today but already need RAM Upgrade?

[eternalvictor]

I got my new iMac today and am so far very impressed seeing as it is an upgrade from my 2006 iMac. I just have one question regarding the RAM though as I ordered the base model with 4gb RAM thinking this would do me for now and if I needed to I could always upgrade cheaply enough. I have run the activity monitor the following figures are what I have had since turning it on this afternoon:

VM Size - 204.44 GB
Page Ins - 5.42 GB
Page Outs - 2.5 MB
Swap Used - 38.7 MB.

Should this give me cause for concern or should I try resetting the Mac and see if it gets better results when I'm not downloading and installing programmes to get it how I want?

Or should I just get another 8 GB RAM from Crucial just to be safe against future usage?

 

[class77]

Yea, get 8 more for 12. That should give you oodles

 

[halledise]

depends on what Apps you're intending to run.

an additional 4 gb should be enough unless you have $ to burn.

 

[Feed Me]

There's no cause for concern there at all. Like. Really, none at all. Page Outs are what you want to keep an eye on - and you have practically none of those.

 

[johannnn]

If you have more page outs than page in you can buy some more. You have more than thousand times more page ins...

 

[yashi]

I'd almost always drop the $40 to triple your memory to 12 GB. It's just too cheap of an upgrade not to.

 

[camardelle]

I upgraded my ram in my mbp to 8 and took the ram from the mbp and put it in the imac increasing it to 8. It's better, but I'm thinking an increase to 12 for $45 or so bucks is well spent.

Am I off the mark. I use my imac for pleasure, not business although I occasionally use imovie for video. I'm not unhappy...but for $45 bucks right?

 

[Spike88]

RAM is low cost these days. With this in mind, I'd upgrade to 12 GBs. re: Installing 2 x 4s GB simms from OWC (or some other place). For the average home user with low memory demands, 8 GBs (4 original + 4 new) is enough. But if doing heavy memory usage in the future, get 2 x 4s now. Thus, having more memory in the future.

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[eternalvictor]

Well I have found the 8gb memory on Crucial for £36 so think it's worth that minimal investment just to make sure I am covered for whatever I want to use the iMac for in future.
Was a little annoyed that the Photoshop and Office I had on the old iMac could not be transferred as they were Power PC or something so have had to order new versions of those but other than that I am very impressed with the new iMac at the moment.