What memory for a mac mini?

[nantucket66]

I'm thinking of hitting the button on a new mac mini, to act primarily as a music server running i-tunes and connecting to my dCS Debussy DAC via USB in asynchronous mode. An iPad or iPod Touch will act as a remote.

My itunes collection is fairly large (over 2000 albums all ripped as AIFF files stored on a large NAS).

Question is this........

Is 2GB enough or would the mac (or more specifically itunes) run quicker with 4GB (or even 8)????

I know with the new Mac Mini it's a five minute job supposedly but which memory?

How many slots does it have? 2 I would presume?

Cheers

 

[haz_pro]

Im sure for running itunes 2 will be sufficient, my laptop certainly runs fine with itunes and other programs open, with 2gb of ram and a crappy amd dual core!

 

[PardonTheWait]

It has two slots and it's not even five minutes. Piece of cake.

Crucial, Kingston, Dane-Elec, Hynix, Samsung... seen them all either come stock in Macs and/or be used for upgrades by service companies.

They're nothing like as fussy as they were - just use half decent branded stuff.

 

[Smudge]

I put 4gb (only see's 3.x gb) in my 2007 core2duo mac mini recently & the difference in snow leopard comming from the installed 1gb was night & day if that's any help.

For the impact extra ram has and the cost involved in upgrading I would say bump it up to at least 4gb if your keeping it in 32bit mode or if you can get a deal on some value ram, go for more. It's not like you will overclock the mac mini, so you dont have to buy expensive ram.

You may get the bug, once you have that little, silent, power house, plugged into your network and run a web server, mail server, chat server, ftp server etc in the background

Matt.