Memory - Apple says 16GIG, everyone else says 32GIG Upgrade?
So I want to upgrade the memory in my Mid 2011 iMac i7 computer from 4 gig memory to the max possiable. From The apple documents it says the max is 4x 4GIG memory cards for a total of 16GIG, but from when I read online this computer will accept 4x 8GIG memory cards for a total of 32GIG.
Has anyone had any issues going up to 32GIGs? Will it effect anything in my computer on the negative side?
I was going to buy either OWC or crucial brand.
What I dont get is when I called Apple support and asked how much memory I could use they said "well the enginners documented 16gig max and felt that was the specs"
But when I told apple support that I read about people installing 32GIGs they did not have anything bad to say about it, but just mentioned they dont offer support for anything over 16gigs and if I had a issue with my iMac I would have to pop in my old 4gigs to get support.
If 32gigs work why wont apple just embrace it?
Thanks for any suggestions.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)