{"id":3653,"date":"2011-08-15T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T02:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2011-08-15T22:25:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T02:25:36","slug":"16gb-of-ram-in-my-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/16gb-of-ram-in-my-imac\/","title":{"rendered":"16GB of RAM in my iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/98107-1\/Screen+Shot+2011-08-15+at+10_10_42+PM.png\" height=326 width=586 border=0 title=\"Screenshot showing that my iMac now has 16GB of RAM.\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/ssd-installation-in-a-mid-2010-27-imac\/\">SSD<\/a> I also upgraded the RAM in my iMac to a full 16GB. It&#8217;s amazing to me, but a full 8GB (2x 1333 MHz SO-DIMMs) is only US$59.99 from Crucial. It wasn&#8217;t long ago that an 8GB flash card cost this much.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I don&#8217;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&#8217;s prices I don&#8217;t mind buying a bit more ram so that swap is almost never used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the SSD I also upgraded the RAM in my iMac to a full 16GB. It&#8217;s amazing to me, but a full 8GB (2x&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/16gb-of-ram-in-my-imac\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">16GB of RAM in my iMac<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-computers","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}