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- Your Mac's Specs
- Late '09 iMac; Late '11 MBAir, 2017 iMac from ****!
...and I am referring to my MACHINE'S memory! Not much can be done for my cranial memory.
I use my 9 year old iMac for surfing and e-mail. It just keep plodding along just fine and is maxed out on memory at 16GB.
My one year old iMac needs a bump in memory. I am seeing occasional beachballs too...but I think that is due to what I am doing with it. They don't last long though...usually just a few seconds here and there.
Here are the stats for it:
iMac Retina 5K
4.2 GHz Core i7
8GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 580 8GB
OS-High Sierra 10-13.2
887.9 GB available on the drive.
2 empty memory slots. (2 4GB memory cards installed).
Initially, I wanted to just max the memory at 256 GB, but that would have more than doubled the initial cost of the iMac and I thought it would be overkill.
This machine never sees the internet (unless I am upgrading Lightroom or Photoshop-it has logged on now 3 times-then it is Unplugged--just it's electrical power cord is plugged in).
IOW, no email, no surfing, no iTunes, no Garage Band....nothing like that. All I use if for is Nikon ViewNX-i; Lightroom and Photoshop. (And yes, it gets backed up regularly using Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner).
I occasionally see a beachball here and there when editing RAW picture files....it's not often, but I do see them occasionally. The copying speeds from my cameras' SD cards to the HD are phenomenal, comparing them to my old iMac. What takes 20 minutes on that machine can be done in 2 minutes on the new one. There's that big of a difference.
At this time, I do not plan on doing much video work, although I'll never rule that out, occasionally.
I just spent a year obtaining a certificate in photography and that's where I want to concentrate. My Lightroom skills are much better than they ever were and as for Photoshop? Getting there too, but much more slowly because of PS's depth and complexity.
So that should cover background. ;-)
I intend to get the memory at MacWorld because it is considerably less than memory from Apple.
So how much should I add to my basic memory?
16GB? 32 GB? 64GB?
Any suggestions you may have for me will be greatly appreciated. This is probably going to be my Christmas present to myself. since the lens or two I'd love to have are just WAY out there for me right now.
Thanks, everyone!
Cheers!
Pat
I use my 9 year old iMac for surfing and e-mail. It just keep plodding along just fine and is maxed out on memory at 16GB.
My one year old iMac needs a bump in memory. I am seeing occasional beachballs too...but I think that is due to what I am doing with it. They don't last long though...usually just a few seconds here and there.
Here are the stats for it:
iMac Retina 5K
4.2 GHz Core i7
8GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 580 8GB
OS-High Sierra 10-13.2
887.9 GB available on the drive.
2 empty memory slots. (2 4GB memory cards installed).
Initially, I wanted to just max the memory at 256 GB, but that would have more than doubled the initial cost of the iMac and I thought it would be overkill.
This machine never sees the internet (unless I am upgrading Lightroom or Photoshop-it has logged on now 3 times-then it is Unplugged--just it's electrical power cord is plugged in).
IOW, no email, no surfing, no iTunes, no Garage Band....nothing like that. All I use if for is Nikon ViewNX-i; Lightroom and Photoshop. (And yes, it gets backed up regularly using Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner).
I occasionally see a beachball here and there when editing RAW picture files....it's not often, but I do see them occasionally. The copying speeds from my cameras' SD cards to the HD are phenomenal, comparing them to my old iMac. What takes 20 minutes on that machine can be done in 2 minutes on the new one. There's that big of a difference.
At this time, I do not plan on doing much video work, although I'll never rule that out, occasionally.
I just spent a year obtaining a certificate in photography and that's where I want to concentrate. My Lightroom skills are much better than they ever were and as for Photoshop? Getting there too, but much more slowly because of PS's depth and complexity.
So that should cover background. ;-)
I intend to get the memory at MacWorld because it is considerably less than memory from Apple.
So how much should I add to my basic memory?
16GB? 32 GB? 64GB?
Any suggestions you may have for me will be greatly appreciated. This is probably going to be my Christmas present to myself. since the lens or two I'd love to have are just WAY out there for me right now.
Thanks, everyone!
Cheers!
Pat