Mac Memory Prices...

[MuGeN]

Christ, had in the back of my head that i'd be able to upgrade the ram on my new imac for a perfectly reasonable price (based on the fact that i wacked 4GB into my 2.2GHz MacBook for about 50 quid) but it turns out to go up to 8GB is around 600 quid

just wondering, is there a decent alternative to this ram, maybe by picking a lower spec DDR2 ram if its even possible?

 

[Burnsy2023]

Have you looked at OcUK?

 

[theheyes]

I thought you were exaggerating but I just looked on the site... £880 to upgrade to 8GB memory... I think I'd rather sit watching the spinning beach ball for a thousand years than pay that.

The rule of thumb is (or was) never to buy RAM from Apple and go with Crucial.

 

[D D Danneh]

It's the 4GB DIMMs, they cost a fortune. Or at least, I assume it is. If it's actually 4*2GB, then that's a complete rip. Although I think two 4GB DIMMs cost about £400, so it's still a ripoff.

Edit: Nevermind, I just did a quick search and a single 4GB DDR2 800MHz DIMM is about £60, so £120 for 8GB. That's fairly reasonable.

Edit 2: And 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SODIMM's are £335 each. So it's more like £670 for 8GB. Still less than apple though.

 

[MuGeN]

i think with my macbook, i would have been happy with 2 gig, but 4 was just so cheap its almost daft not too... saying that once i had it i noticed the difference and wouldn't go back...

with the imac, it has 4 already and i'm wondering if i would see a real difference going to up 8 or if right now 8 is overkill... nevertheless after spending so much on the new imac i wouldn't want to spend more than about 100 quid on any upgrades anyway so its a moot point, i'll just tell myself that 8 would be excessive

 

[theheyes]

8GB would probably be excessive. You should check activity monitor to see what your actual RAM usage is. You'd have to be doing some serious multitasking to warrant spending that on RAM. Theres always a point of diminishing return and that comes way before the 8GB mark.

Save your pennies.