I have eight on my MacBook Pro and love it. Combine that with a TB hard drive, and all runs smoothly.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 27, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Since I got my Mac in August of 2011 it has had 2gb of ram, and I didn't use > it for a year because it was so slow. Finally, in May of 2012, I bit the > bullet and got an adapter so I could hook up a screen, and that helped. By > August I had switched to the mac as my primary machine, and I was feeling the > pinch; if I used three apps I was okay, but switch to a fourth and things > would slow down, or even switch to a new tab or window in an open app and I > would get busy messages with much grinding of my poor hard drive. I was > getting more and more frustrated, especially after I started playing with > resource hogs like Garageband and Xcode. > > Last week I bit another bullet and got myself 8gb of ram from Newegg.com. It > arrived yesterday and I installed it in my mini; the only sighted help I > needed was getting the plastic cover back over the Mini's access port, but I > think I could have gotten it myself with more patience. To be fair, though, I > have experience swapping out ram modules, so if you've never done this please > find someone who has (and has done it successfully) to give you a hand. The > mini's ram slots offer themselves up at an angle, and it is weird to figure > out at first. > > Anyway, I've now used this ram for a little while (I got home only an hour or > so ago) and all I can say is.. WOW! Everything is snappy, there's no lag in > switching Safari tabs or moving between open programs, and even my "say time" > command is now almost immediate instead of taking the five seconds it used > to. I have not yet run a full memory test on the new ram sticks, but only > because Apple Hardware Test failed to pick up my wifi network (apparently > some routers block access to computers running in diagnostic mode). So, I am > still nervous when using the mac, waiting for something to crash or explode, > but I'll test the ram as soon as I can so I can breathe easier. Bottom line > though: if you have 2gb of ram like I did and your machine is able to accept > user-replaced ram, treat yourself to 8gb (4gb was not much cheaper, and 8gb > was the better buy). You will not regret it. Now, if anyone can tell me how > to use my wifi with AHT, and/or boot into Single-user mode so I can run a > memory test, I'd be home free! > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
