Can i take out the 4gb ram installed and put it into my unibody macbook which only has 2gb of ram and then put the 2 x 1gb stick into my imac and i also have 2 spare ddr3 1gb sticks from my brothers unibody mbp from when he upgraded his ram. so all up i will have 4 x 1gb sticks. Would i get the same performance?
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27" Imac 4 x 1gb ram
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Uhm... If I parse your question correctly, you have atm 4x1gb, and will receive 2x2gb ram in the iMac, and you wonder if you can switch them?
Then the answer _should_ be yes. In theory. At least, you can try.
I know they're all DDR3 SO-DIMM, but the specs might vary a bit.
Then the answer _should_ be yes. In theory. At least, you can try.
I know they're all DDR3 SO-DIMM, but the specs might vary a bit.
How serviceable is the RAM on the new iMac 27's? On the unboxing it looked like there was a pretty easily removable tray at the bottom?
If I bought a 27 with the stock 4GB, could I easily just pop this in the other 2 slots for 12GB? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...213&cm_re=DDR3_SO-DIMM-_-20-231-213-_-Product
This is just an example as a sanity check of the right part.
Thanks.
Yes, I think you phrased the question a lot better! I typed that last one very quickly. Okay well I will try it out when i have time, Hopefully there is the same performance.
Thanks for your responses
That's correct, I am getting ahead of myself. I planned on popping two 4GB in there, but that would be in a year or so, when hopefully, they aren't insanely high.
my plan to. Looked at ordering 4X4gb but it was like 950$ the cheapest i could find. just stuck with 4X2gb for total of 8gb. Think that will be fine for now with what i do. Can't wait till my i7 27' gets here.
Yeah, normal 4gb chips are effing expensive, let's not ever TALK about SO-DIMMs
what is SO-DIMM?