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16GB of RAM in my iMac

Along with the SSD I also upgraded the RAM in my iMac to a full 16GB. It’s amazing to me, but a full 8GB (2x 1333 MHz SO-DIMMs) is only US$59.99 from Crucial. It wasn’t long ago that an 8GB flash card cost this much.

Sure, I don’t need this much RAM very often, but I did find that with 8GB and a bunch of design programs open (such as when doing PCB or mapping work) the machine would occasionally page. At today’s prices I don’t mind buying a bit more ram so that swap is almost never used.

One Comment

  1. mali
    mali August 18, 2011

    Wow! I like “All memory slots are currently in use.” I want it to say that on my iMac too. And with RAM that cheap? I had no idea! Time to get more…

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