Q: Aperture Speed

Hallo Allen,

thanks for joining this discussion. The sluggish behaviour is nicely explained by the 4GB RAM, but what do you make of the crashes? I am still worried because none of the usual culprits - duplicate fonts, video codecs, plug-ins seem to apply. Any ideas? On my iMac I don't see any of this symptoms.

Happy New Year

Léonie

Léonie-

99% of the time it seems that when RAM adequacy, hard drives underfulledness :), OS versions, app versions and Permissions repair are righteous everything seems to just work.

Feliz Navidad!

-Allen

On a gauge that runs from "Sneezing" to "Brain surgery" it's barely above the limiter pin on the left side.

Go to Crucial or OWC and find the right memory and videos on installation.

Not kidding: if you can use a screwdriver you can replace your memory.  Make sure you have the necessary tools (not everyone has -- or needs -- a Torx #6 in their pencil drawer.)

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1270

http://lifehacker.com/198396/hack-attack-how-to-install-ram-in-your-mac-and-save -big-

Regards

Léonie

From the op's first post:

Looks like an iMac not a Macbook. Doing memory in an iMac is realy simple, just open the little flap on the bottom of the screen.

Looks like an iMac not a Macbook. Doing memory in an iMac is realy simple, just open the little flap on the bottom of the screen

o.k., that's why I couldn't find any support pages on how to do it on an iMac...

I put the links here because of the general hints - how to hold the memory card without touching the contacts, conect from the power supply and so on. It is very easy to damage the memory card.

See iMac: Memory specifications and upgrades

Thank you Frank. That link points to what I have been looking for:

iMac: How to remove or install memory:   http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1423