How much RAM does it have now?
I'd say live with it for a while and see if you see rainbow spinning cursor of "please wait" a lot. If not, the extra RAM won't do anything for you anyway.
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Rob - Sep 12, 2012 11:51:02 am PDT #20910 of 25501
beekaytee - Sep 12, 2012 12:33:11 pm PDT #20911 of 25501
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I'm definitely going for that putty knife if I can't find something thin and strong at my local hardware mecca, ND.
Fortunately, I am tool-rich and have pretty much everything included in the tech kit. Though, those super long tweezers are kind of nice.
When pulling things apart...vacuum cleaners and such...my philosophy is always, low and slow...pry with patience and document everything that comes out on a placemat diagram, then clean up as you go out.
My father may not have given me much in this life, but he was way into Heath Kits and had me building jr. detective listening devices and 'hit a key and it lights up!' mini-organs when I was quite small.
I wielded a soldering iron long before it was wise for a kid to do so.
I never developed the love for poking around in tv sets that he had, but I can unscrew and peer into a thing with proper guidance.
Since it isn't a necessity right now, I will take Rob's advice and see what I can get away with before proceeding.
My current G5 tower has 3 GB on board and I'm paranoid about keeping it clean, so I take pains to run at about half capacity. It's STILL really slow.
I'm assuming that means I'll be near full-capacity with the mini.
Rob - Sep 12, 2012 2:48:45 pm PDT #20912 of 25501
How do you determine how much memory you are using?
le nubian - Sep 12, 2012 4:34:54 pm PDT #20913 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
how much do you recall?
DCJensen - Sep 13, 2012 2:00:24 pm PDT #20914 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Is that a memory joke?
le nubian - Sep 13, 2012 3:41:12 pm PDT #20915 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes. and a bad one.
beekaytee - Sep 13, 2012 4:31:51 pm PDT #20916 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
A bad joke can still be a cute joke.
Rob, I use a utility called Disk Inventory.
It's shareware and super useful. Extremely detailed. Very colorful.
I've been using it for years to keep my memory as balanced as possible. Trying to stay below 50%. Not that such a practice really does anything useful for the computer...it just makes me feel better.
Rob - Sep 13, 2012 7:58:50 pm PDT #20917 of 25501
That's measuring disk space. The upgrades we've been discussing are RAM.
Sadly, both are hard to upgrade on your mini.
beekaytee - Sep 14, 2012 4:33:21 am PDT #20918 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood the question.
According to 'about this mac', I have 2GB 1067 MHz DDR.
I'm actually doing okay on disk space, but processing is definitely slower than I expected for an 'upgrade'.
I'm still thinking I'll replace the memory myself, just not right now.
Tom Scola - Sep 14, 2012 9:10:47 am PDT #20919 of 25501
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