Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I have a late 2010 27" Quad Core Intel i7 iMac with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 video card with 512mb of video RAM (VRAM). I'd like to increase that to either 1GB or 2GB, but not sure it's possible or as easy as I can increase regular RAM. Please advise. Thanks!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 27" Quad Core i7
Unfortunately no. iMacs are pretty much "what you see is what you get" machine (except for the RAM).
Unfortunately no. iMacs are pretty much "what you see is what you get" machine (except for the RAM).
And hard drive 😁
AFAIK, not the new ones (OWC even took their notes re. internal iMac drives off as well as their install instructions) due to some cabling (I believe):
😁
Wow, sure glad I bought a MBP instead...hate not being able to replace hard drives and memory.
That takes a lot of the fun out of geekdom 😉
I've had iMacs since the first one came out and I've never worried about nor had a problem or needed to install a new hard drive .... if the internal is getting too small, just get a decent external and park stuff there. I tend to keep a lot of free space because of movie projects: the last one - including all the files, videos, special effects I created with FCE, and special intros I created with LiveType took up close to 200 GB for a movie that was just over an hour long. I then get rid of most of the files and park the ones I want to keep on an external.
Yeah, well, VRAM isn't hard drive at all so the two replies above are somewhat irrelevant. VRAM is for the video/graphics card and I can add and replace the RAM, as you can most new iMacs. I also have no issues with the giant 1TB hard drive nor do I expect to.
Sorry someone mentioned the hard drive and I answered. That does not, however, change the fact that you can only replace the RAM (not the graphics card or its' VRAM). Here are the tech specs for the late 2009, which is what I assume you have according to the information you posted:
Can I upgrade the VRAM on my Intel Core i7 iMac?
