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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
RAM versus Processor Speed
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<blockquote data-quote="Mikethebook" data-source="post: 1271707" data-attributes="member: 103285"><p>I'm running a late 2009 Mac Mini 2.26 Ghz with 2 GB RAM and Snow Leopard. It's struggling a little, well more than a little, running Parallels with Windows XP on 500 MB of the RAM. My needs are relatively simple. I'm a web-browser and writer, using Scrivener, Office and various editing programmes, Windows and Mac. I'm not involved in any image manipulation, music editing etc. My question is this. Should I max out my RAM to 4GB or upgrade to the latest Mac Mini and increase RAM to 8GB (I would in any case revert to the faster Snow Leopard)? And to what extent will a faster processor speed up my machine given the type of work I do? I'm a bit confused how RAM and processor differ in their speeding up of the machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikethebook, post: 1271707, member: 103285"] I'm running a late 2009 Mac Mini 2.26 Ghz with 2 GB RAM and Snow Leopard. It's struggling a little, well more than a little, running Parallels with Windows XP on 500 MB of the RAM. My needs are relatively simple. I'm a web-browser and writer, using Scrivener, Office and various editing programmes, Windows and Mac. I'm not involved in any image manipulation, music editing etc. My question is this. Should I max out my RAM to 4GB or upgrade to the latest Mac Mini and increase RAM to 8GB (I would in any case revert to the faster Snow Leopard)? And to what extent will a faster processor speed up my machine given the type of work I do? I'm a bit confused how RAM and processor differ in their speeding up of the machine. [/QUOTE]
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