Difference between 1.5gb and 2gb of RAM

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Difference between 1.5gb and 2gb of RAM

Will I notice a big difference or any sort of difference if I upgrade to 2gb from 1.5gb of RAM? Since i only have the Core Duo, i can only put 2 gigs in there, and i found some pretty cheap memory that fits this computer, so i thought i would go ahead and order it, if there was a difference in speed/performance. The only app i use that would need all that memory is FCE and maybe later on Aperture.

20" iMac 2ghz core duo 1.5gb RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jul 12, 2007 8:05 PM

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Answer 1

den.thed

Level 10

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Jul 12, 2007 9:01 PM in response to Community User

Hello mac fan92

I did that very same thing 3 weeks ago. I notice only a very slight improvement, no where near as much as the upgrade from 512MB to 1.5GB. 1.5GB was realy enough for my everyday uses like Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, MS Word X (ppc) and a load of widgets all open at the same time. I mostly decided to go 2GB because of the $38.00 price, heck early last year I gave $130.00 for the exact same 1GB module. So I guess for me it was for GP (the general principle) thing.

Dennis

17" iMac Intel Core Duo - 2GB Ram - Mac OS X (10.4.10) - Maxtor 300GB FireWire - Creative Inspire 2.1 - 2G Nano

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Answer 2

mrtotes

Level 6

11,836 points

Jul 13, 2007 2:40 AM in response to Community User

Hello,

Have a read of this Apple article (link). Only if you have both low "Free" and low "Inactive" memory do you need an upgrade.

kind regards

mrtotes

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