macfidelity

Ich habe heute bei Gruber einen interessanten Beitrag über die Entwicklung der RAM-Preise bei Apple gefunden.

Demzufolge sind die RAM Preise bei den kürzlich vorgestellten Macs zum ersten Mal im Ansatz wettbewerbsfähig. Um ehrlich zu sein schaue ich mir die Upgrade Optionen bei Apple schon lange nicht mehr an, da ich der alten Regel vertraut habe:

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I love my Mac Pro since the first second but while working with several VM’s i realized it has to manage continuous pageouts.

Tech Specs:

Model Name:  Ã‚  Ã‚   Mac Pro
Model Identifier:  Ã‚  Ã‚   MacPro1,1
Processor Name:  Ã‚  Ã‚   Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:  Ã‚  Ã‚   2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors:  Ã‚  Ã‚   2
Total Number Of Cores:  Ã‚  Ã‚   4
L2 Cache (per processor):  Ã‚  Ã‚   4 MB
Memory:  Ã‚  Ã‚   2 GB
Bus Speed:  Ã‚  Ã‚   1.33 GHz

Those 2 GB of RAM o use at the moment are realized with 4 x 512 MB FB-Dimm’s. So i started my search for informations on that topic … the useful results are listed at the end of that article.

Conclusion (for myself):

Order 4 x 1 GB additional RAM, lets see how that helps =)

Links

• Apple Inc. about Final Cut and Memory
• http://diglloyd.com about Memory and the Mac Pro
  
• http://macresearch.org about Memory Performance

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Since i bought my mom a mac mini last year i was always asking myself how difficult a real upgrade would be for that box.

Upgrading a harddiks or RAM is not really that big problem if you have managed to open the mini-case itself. The web offers several articles regarding this topic.

Today i found an article on O’Reilly about levelling up a mac mini

Basically the author describes his upgrade from Core Solo Mac Mini to a Core 2 Duo.

Teaser: